Adam Heine's Blog, page 19
October 22, 2012
October 19, 2012
US Marines, circa 42012 A.D.
From Anthdrawlogy's Independence week. This one wasn't posted on the blog of any famous authors, but it's still one of my favorite drawings.
October 17, 2012
First Impact: GRIMOIRE by Marcy
Time for another First Impact critique. Remember, anyone who leaves a critique in the comments is eligible to win a 15-page critique from author Jodi Meadows.
And this feature can only continue with your submissions! If you have a query letter, first page, or even back cover blurb you'd like critiqued, send it to firstimpactAE@gmail.com. Details here.
Thank you, Marcy, for letting us take a look at your YA Historical Paranormal. As always, this is just my opinion. You are welcome to disag...
And this feature can only continue with your submissions! If you have a query letter, first page, or even back cover blurb you'd like critiqued, send it to firstimpactAE@gmail.com. Details here.
Thank you, Marcy, for letting us take a look at your YA Historical Paranormal. As always, this is just my opinion. You are welcome to disag...
October 15, 2012
How to Beat Your Fears
Step #1: Get in the ring.
October 12, 2012
MSFV's Logline Critiques, Revision Round
The entries have been posted for Miss Snark's First Victim's Logline Critique Revision Round.* Each one you critique will earn you an entry toward October's First Impact prize: a 15-page critique from Jodi Meadows, author of INCARNATE.
A logline is one or two sentences that answers the question, "What's the book about?" To critique them, you just need to say whether it sounds interesting and why or why not.
And a big welcome to the logline authors! If I messed something up, shoot me an e-ma...
A logline is one or two sentences that answers the question, "What's the book about?" To critique them, you just need to say whether it sounds interesting and why or why not.
And a big welcome to the logline authors! If I messed something up, shoot me an e-ma...
Logline Revision Critiques #18
TITLE: Listening In The Snow
GENRE: Middle Grade Fiction
Original critique on MSFV
In the deep of a dark Vermont winter, eleven-year-old Nathan Hayes, a shy
stutterer, breaks into the long-abandoned Specter house, willing to brave its
legendary ghosts in order to find the magic charm he believes will bring his
mother home.
Logline Revision Critiques #19
TITLE: BREAK FREE
GENRE: YA FANTASY
Original critique on MSFV
Indentured
servant Kiel Reaux has one goal: deliver a spell-stone to his boss, the
Baron of Old Town, and earn his freedom before his chains become a
noose. But when the delivery goes balls up, and lands him in the hands
of slavers, Kiel is sold to a priestess who promises him freedom if he
escorts her through a murderous magical jungle. Caught between the
deadly jungle and the equally deadly Baron who’s tired of waitin...
GENRE: YA FANTASY
Original critique on MSFV
Indentured
servant Kiel Reaux has one goal: deliver a spell-stone to his boss, the
Baron of Old Town, and earn his freedom before his chains become a
noose. But when the delivery goes balls up, and lands him in the hands
of slavers, Kiel is sold to a priestess who promises him freedom if he
escorts her through a murderous magical jungle. Caught between the
deadly jungle and the equally deadly Baron who’s tired of waitin...
Logline Revision Critiques #20
TITLE: Twenty-Four Hour Boy
GENRE: Contemporary Middle Grade
Original critique on MSFV
Up all night, every night, ten-year old gadget-maker Hunter
Harris is happy with his freakish lifestyle. Unfortunately, when Hunter reports
a strange light and noises in the night and then a murder next door his parents
question his sanity and Hunter has to prove that he was telling the truth or
risk losing his secret life forever.
GENRE: Contemporary Middle Grade
Original critique on MSFV
Up all night, every night, ten-year old gadget-maker Hunter
Harris is happy with his freakish lifestyle. Unfortunately, when Hunter reports
a strange light and noises in the night and then a murder next door his parents
question his sanity and Hunter has to prove that he was telling the truth or
risk losing his secret life forever.
Logline Revision Critiques #21
TITLE: Amongst
GENRE: Middle Grade Fantasy
Original critique on MSFV
No one has ever left Verandale…at least not with their body still wrapped around their soul.
But thirteen year-old Enoch believes he has discovered a way to escape.
GENRE: Middle Grade Fantasy
Original critique on MSFV
No one has ever left Verandale…at least not with their body still wrapped around their soul.
But thirteen year-old Enoch believes he has discovered a way to escape.
Logline Revision Critiques #22
TITLE: DEATHLESS
GENRE: YA Fantasy
Original critique on MSFV
When an army of ancient monsters threatens to overrun her country, 17-year-old fugitive, Zee, joins the army to win a reprieve from her death sentence, only to discover that she is the key to awakening the centuries-old goddesses the monsters are fighting to free.
GENRE: YA Fantasy
Original critique on MSFV
When an army of ancient monsters threatens to overrun her country, 17-year-old fugitive, Zee, joins the army to win a reprieve from her death sentence, only to discover that she is the key to awakening the centuries-old goddesses the monsters are fighting to free.
