Thank you everyone who entered!  It takes a lot of guts to enter a contest and put yourself “out there” for others to evaluate.  So kudos to all of you who gave it a go!  Fortunately I didn’t have to pick the winner, because look at all these fabulous entries! 
Let’s start with the three runners-up [...]

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To celebrate my debut novel, THE HIGHLANDER’S SWORD I am sponsoring a first line contest for historical romance writers – and the grand prize is a three chapter critique from my agent, the utterly brilliant Barbara Poelle of the Irene Goodman Literary Agency!  She really helped me improve my writing, and without even making me [...]

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