Manuscript Critique Sessions
Who better than one of the authors presenting at the 2008 Crime Bake to give you honest feedback to help you improve your writing? Send in the first 15 pages of a work in progress and get feedback from one of our author/presenters during a 15-minute critique session at Crime Bake.
THE PROCESS
1. Register for a manuscript critique
In your conference registration, request a manuscript critique and submit the additional fee ($50 per writing sample submitted by October 1; $60 per writing sample submitted between October 2 and October 15). On the registration form, indicate the category of your writing sample:
- Mystery/professional detective
- Mystery/amateur sleuth
- Suspense or thriller
- Mystery short story
- True crime
- Children's/young adult
- Screenplay or teleplay
- Other - Describe your writing sample so we can match it to an author/critic
2. Prepare your writing sample:
- Word DOC files or RTF (rich-text format-virtually all word processing programs allow you to save to this format).
- Maximum 15 pages/3,500 words, double-spaced with 1 inch margins, standard 12-point font
- On the first page, put your name, email, and the category of your submission.
- OPTIONAL: Include a 1-page (250 word) description of the manuscript from which your sample is excerpted.
3. Email your writing sample
to critiques@crimebake.org
4. Crime Bake author/critic
- We forward your writing sample to a Crime Bake author/critic who has published that type of work.
- That author will contact you and schedule a 15-minute critique session at a mutually convenient time during Crime Bake.
COST AND DEADLINES
- The cost for a manuscript critique is $50 per manuscript submitted by October 1.
- Manuscripts submitted between October 2 and October 15 cost $60 each.
- No manuscripts will be accepted after October 15 or at the conference.
- Writing samples are assigned to author/critics on a first-come, first-served basis.
