Promotions from non-participants

As a service to our writers, we are providing a listing of promotions offered by non-NaNo participants. None of these promotions should be considered to be endorsed or approved by NaNoWriMo or its affiliates or staff, and we cannot vouch for any of them.

If you would like your promotion to be considered, please contact me through the Forums Contact Form.

NaNoWriMo participants to use BookieJar eBook publishing and promotion service for free until the end of 2011, including the innovative eBook signing technology.

Seattle-based company BookieJar is an eBook self-publishing platform with social media and innovative book promotion capabilities. It is the first publishing platform that offers autographed eBooks and first to support ongoing publishing model. It has been selected by TechFlash - a leading high-tech magazine as the Startup of the Week.

Come to join other book lovers to publish, promote your complete or ongoing books, and connect to your readers, don't forget to sign your eBooks too! www.BookieJar.com

What happens after NaNoWriMo? Where does the editing begin? Award-winning author Beth Kephart is holding a contest on her blog in search of the best revision of a single NaNoWriMo sentence. For more details (and for examples), please go here.

Ebook genre fiction publisher Literary Partners Group, Inc. is sponsoring a NaNoWriMo publishing contest! Submit your 50,000-word novel in the genres of romance, horror, crime, or mystery/thriller to Editorial Director Lori Perkins by December 1, 2011. Our team of editors will evaluate the submissions and choose first place winners, as well as honorable mentions, from each genre for publication by Ravenous Romance or Ravenous Shadows.

Winners will be notified by email by February 1, 2012. Each book chosen will be eligible for standard contract terms, including an advance and competitive royalty rates. The winning books will be published in e-book in 2012, with potential for print publication as well.

Ravenous Romance publishes romance in all subgenres. Ravenous Romance novels have been nominated for many awards, including RT Reviewer’s Choice Best Erotic Romance and the Lambda Awards, and have hit several retailer best-sellers lists. The vast majority of our authors qualify for RWA’s PAN membership within a year of publication.

Ravenous Shadows is a new horror/mystery/crime/thriller imprint, led by New York Times best-selling author and editor John Skipp. John is acquiring edgy, commercial, blood-pumping fiction by both established and new writers.

Please submit completed novels as word docs with a brief author bio and synopsis to lori@literarypartners.com.

What better way to spend a grey, miserable London weekend then curled up inside a warm cafe with a mug of hot chocolate and letting your creative juices flow? Karys Rhiann has written an article on NaNoWriMo with particular insights into the London Write In's and other NaNo related events. Check it out here.

My 501(c)(3) literacy charity, Book Wish Foundation, is offering a rare opportunity for aspiring writers to win manuscript critiques from literary agents or renowned authors. Full details at our site here.

This is an essay contest connected with our new YA anthology, What You Wish For, a collection of short stories and poems about wishes by an all-star lineup of writers. We are giving all our proceeds from What You Wish For to the UN Refugee Agency (UNHCR) to develop libraries in Darfuri refugee camps in eastern Chad (all authors and our literary agent worked pro bono). Essentially, readers will choose one of six stories from What You Wish For and write a 500-word essay relating the wishes in the story to the Darfuri refugees. The writers of the best essays will win one-page critiques of the first 50 pages of an unpublished young adult or middle grade manuscript.

Manuscript critiques are being offered as prizes by:

Laura Langlie, literary agent for Meg Cabot
Nancy Gallt, literary agent for Jeanne DuPrau
Brenda Bowen, literary agent and editor of Karen Hesse's Newbery Medal winner Out of the Dust
Ann M. Martin, winner of the Newbery Honor for A Corner of the Universe
Francisco X. Stork, winner of the Amelia Elizabeth Walden Award for The Last Summer of the Death Warriors
Cynthia Voigt, winner of the Newbery Medal for Dicey's Song and the Newbery Honor for A Solitary Blue

- Logan Kleinwaks
President, Book Wish Foundation

Dear NaNoWriMo Writers:

I write a blog called WRITERHEAD that covers all things writerly, but that has a particular bent toward exploring the state of being that I call writerhead.

What's writerhead?

It's the (usually) temporary state of dreamy concentration and fluctuating consciousness during which a writer feels most creative, productive, and artistic. You know...the purest moments of creation. Those beautiful (sometimes excruciating) sh, sh, shsshhhh, I've got to get this down moments when words are bubbling, popping, zinging, and swinging. The moments when the "real" world disappears behind a gauzy cloud (insert sucking sound here...) and the imaginative world takes on firmer lines and brighter hues. Some writers call it "the flow" or "the zone." Others refer to it as "writerland." I've always called it writerhead.

Every Wednesday, I run a short interview with an author about her/his writerhead experience. BUT this week, I'm inviting all brilliant, brave, creative NaNoWriMo writers to pop over to the blog and tell a little something-something about what your writerhead is like during this amazing 30-day, 50,oo0-word writing adventure.

See you there!

Kristin Bair O'Keeffe
www.writerhead.com

Operation: Writers' Achievements

Writers are awesome, and they deserve awards. Because writing is hard. Finishing a writing project is harder. Finishing a writing project, editing, finding an agent, getting a publisher, and becoming published is the hardest of all.

So I want to reward writers for writing. I want to reward writers who write every day for a week, who reach not just 50,000 words, but 10,000 words and 100,000 words, who edit their third draft, who submit to editors and agents, and who do all those other hard, wonderful things that writers need to do.

Writers’ Achievements http://www.rockethub.com/projects/6852-operation-writers-achievements

Operation: Writers’ Achievements will be a website to give writers encouraging achievements and badges for making progress. But what fun is it to get a badge that nobody sees? Badges are made to be shown! You’ll be able to share your badges with your friends, and display your badges on your websites, profiles, and forums to your heart’s content. We’ll even have a store so you can buy physical copies of your favorite badges to pin to your bag, stick on your computer, or attach to your keychain, and when you achieve something big for the first time (such as publishing a novel), we'll send you that physical badge for free.