Comments on: Contest Winner Lucy Roberts on Reading and Writing M&Bs

By: lidia

lidia — Fri, 07 Nov 2008 16:54:07 +0000

Lucy,
Congratulations! Can’t wait to read your entry. This must be a very exciting time for you!

By: Lynn Raye Harris

Lynn Raye Harris — Fri, 07 Nov 2008 16:36:58 +0000

Congrats, Lucy! It definitely takes persistence in this biz, and it sounds like you have it. My very first mss was a medieval — riddled with cliches so bad it’s embarrassing to think about. *g*

It’s amazing how you learn, even though your writing was good enough to capture the editors’ attention, that you still have work to do to make a story publishable. That was a huge lesson for me, and I’m so grateful I had the chance.

So have a great year working with your editor! You will learn tons, and you will be amazed at how your writing grows with guidance. I look forward to reading about your journey.

And, I also have to give a shout out for Kate Walker’s Twelve Point Guide! I bought it AFTER I got The Call, lol, but it’s fabulous and I know it will serve me well as I go forward with the next story.

By: Lorraine

Lorraine — Fri, 07 Nov 2008 12:15:18 +0000

Thanks Lucy – I was hoping that was the case and I didn’t have to wait for the unpublished members to either drop out or get published

Lorraine

By: lucy

lucy — Fri, 07 Nov 2008 09:03:27 +0000

Lorraine – You can join the NWS from January 2009 I think. I may be wrong, but I believe it starts all over again with 0 members until it gets full!

By: Felicity

Felicity — Fri, 07 Nov 2008 08:56:15 +0000

Congratulations Lucy. As a runner-up I was so thrilled. So you must be totally over the moon to have her at hand for twelve months. Well done and look forward to reading your entry.

Cheers, Felicity

By: Lorraine

Lorraine — Thu, 06 Nov 2008 23:08:07 +0000

Congratulations Lucy, I’m looking forward to reading your winning entry.

It’s really interesting to read your post as I’ve been thinking about joining the RNA’s New Writers’ scheme.

Unfortunately their quota for unpublished writers seems to be full at the moment so I can’t join but I do have Kate Walker’s book sitting on my desk!

Lorraine

By: blairwitch

blairwitch — Thu, 06 Nov 2008 22:15:00 +0000

Wohoo again Lucy! And fab story… kinda reminds me of my beginning to category, in which I thought I could read a bunch then pen one to publishable standard straight away!! Haha!!

Good lucky with Kimberly.

Jackie – great to hear your revision letter was useful. I’ve been ploughing on through my entered mss as I’m having a baby in three weeks and wanted to finish, so I’m just hoping I’m heading down the right track. Can’t wait to know for real

Rach!

By: jax

jax — Thu, 06 Nov 2008 20:32:25 +0000

Thanks Lucy! So do I. Going to wait for my phone call before tackling it though – in the middle of Nano at the moment and am concentrating on that.

Jackie

By: lucy

lucy — Thu, 06 Nov 2008 20:02:14 +0000

Hello!

Thank you again for the congrats. Am very much looking forward to Kimberley’s words of wisdom!

Jackie – hope the revisions go well

x Lucy

By: jax

jax — Thu, 06 Nov 2008 19:10:42 +0000

Well done with your win, Lucy! I have a revision letter for my entry from Anna and that was just so incredibly useful (and daunting) – I can only imagine what a year of such fabulous advice must be like. You’ll have a sale for sure.

I had to laugh at just ‘dashing off a publishable M&B’. Sounds like my thinking when I entered the Instant Seduction contest earlier this year. Guidelines? What guidelines?? You mean Modern Heat is a separate line??
Hahahaha! No wonder my first mss got a big fat R!

Jackie