Introducing the “Hooray I Got CATCHING JORDAN Arcs” Contest!

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Seven prizes are up for grabs!

To enter, all you have to do is leave a comment below, telling me 1) What your favorite sport is and 2) Who your favorite badass woman is. It can be anyone – Maya Angelou to Hillary Clinton to Venus Williams to whoever you think is badass!

(Also, if you don’t want to win a critique and you’re only interested in winning a book/gift card, please mention that in your comment below).

The deadline to enter is Sunday, July 10th at 11:00 p.m. EST, and I’ll have a random drawing to determine the winners. One prize per person.

Sooo… to celebrate, here’s what’s up for grabs:

Prize #1) An arc of CATCHING JORDAN! (I will ship international)

Prize #2) A critique of a first chapter by my wonderful agent Sara Megibow! Here are the rules:

It does not need to be from a completed manuscript, although if Sara is intrigued by the opening pages, she will only ask for a full if the book is 100% done. The submission can be in these genres: young adult, middle grade, commercial fiction, women’s fiction, science fiction, fantasy or romance. She doesn’t read or represent any genres other than these. The winner would have to submit their work to Sara within 30 days of winning.
You can reference this info:
Sara’s clients/ tastes/ sales/ etc are listed here: Β http://www.publishersmarketplace.com/members/SaraMegibow/
Agency website isΒ www.nelsonagency.com
Twitter: @SaraMegibow
Facebook: Sara Megibow Nelson Agency

 

Prize #3) A Barnes and Noble gift card for $25.

Prize #4) A critique of 20 pages of a YA novel by YA author Sarah Skilton, whose debut novel BRUISED comes out in 2012!

Prize #5) A query critique from YA author Jennifer Shaw Wolf, whose debut novel BREAKING BEAUTIFUL comes out in 2012!

Prize #6) A copy of PLAYING HURT by Holly Schindler and a copy of HEAD GAMES by Keri Mikulski. Two sporty books I’ve read recently and loved.

Prize #7) A copy of JELLICOE ROAD by Melina Marchetta. It really has nothing to do with football or sports or anything, but I love the book and think the main guy character is pretty hot. That’s a good reason for a prize, right?

Thanks for entering and tweet me/email me if you have any questions!

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92 thoughts on “Introducing the “Hooray I Got CATCHING JORDAN Arcs” Contest!”

  • Madison

    1. Cricket. (I’m an Aussie and used to hate it but had to watch it so much that I fell in love and can’t get enough)
    2. Boudicca. (Taking on the Romans. That’s pretty badass)

  • Jen

    Beautiful ARC! Congratulations!
    1. Beach volleyball (love playing it)
    2. Can I pick two? Helen Keller and Amelia Earhart

  • alyslinn

    1. soccer (football to the rest of the world)
    2. Simone de Beauvoir (a fantastic writer and incredibly smart philosopher)

    Can’t do the B&N gift card, being from Canada, and I don’t have a YA novel, but the rest would work πŸ˜‰

  • Evelin

    1. Formula One (Sports with cars are my favorites my far!)
    2.Jane Austen (who wrote on dependence of women on marriage to secure social standing and economic security while in the 18th century!! Her work brought her little personal fame and only a few positive reviews during her lifetime,and she never knew her own historical importance in English literature)

    I don’t want to win the critique,they make me to eager to dig the whole book! I’m only interested in winning a book/gift card or the copies πŸ˜‰

  • Caroline Tung Richmond

    What an awesome contest!

    1. American Football (Go Redskins! I love you even though you suck!)

    2.) Elizabeth Cady Stanton (She spearheaded the women’s suffrage movement, wrote books, and raised 7 kids. One bad-ass woman!)

  • Kai A.

    What a great contest! I’ve been looking out for Catching Jordan for months! *crossing fingers* Would love to win the ARC/books! I don’t think my work’s up for critique yet, so I’ll pass on that. πŸ™‚

    1. Basketball, definitely. I grew up in a family and in a country that worships the sport so much.
    2. I’d say Joan of Arc. Leading the French army into great victories on the Hundred Years war? No one could be more bad ass than that.

  • Keri Mikulski

    I can’t wait to get my copy of CATCHING JORDAN. πŸ™‚ Please don’t enter me, I just wanted to play. Yay for sporty books. πŸ™‚

    1. Favorite sports to play – soccer, softball, and basketball
    Favorite sport to watch – softball or baseball

    2. Favorite bad ass women – So many to name! πŸ™‚ Here are my top five badass athletes who break barriers daily – Jessica Mendoza, Natasha Watley, Danica Patrick, Jennie Finch, and Mia Hamm. πŸ™‚

  • Melissa L.

    Thank you for having this contest!
    1. Softball (I used to play when I was in middle/high school)
    2. Annie Oakley (Got to love a girl with a gun)

  • Grace S.

    1) dance (YES IT IS A SPORT)
    2) Can they be fictional? If yes, Six from Lorien Legacies series/Calla from Nightshade/Katsa from Graceling. If no, I’d have to answer Maureen Johnson.

  • ashelynn hetland

    I want Catching Jordan so badly… *reaches for ARC* *REACHES*

    1. Basketball, although I don’t quite understand the rules for it. I like watching it and playing it?
    2. Kate Chopin.

    Thank you! πŸ˜€

  • Julie

    1) A draw between basketball and tennis
    2) Jane Goodall

    I’d rather try for the books/gift cards, as I do not have a novel up my sleeve. πŸ˜€ Thanks for the chance to win!

  • Kari

    1. Volleyball. Nothing like spiking a ball into someone’s face…. =)
    2. Right now, Lady Gaga. Don’t judge, but she makes good music, likes what she does, comes off as crazy and doesn’t care, yet she’s really down to earth in real life and genuinely cares for people. I think it’s awesome.

  • Aislinn Macnamara

    1. Figure skating. Yes, it is a sport!

    2. After her address at RWA? Sherrilyn Kenyon.

    (You can take me out of the running for a crit, but I wouldn’t say no to a gift card or ARC.)

  • Audrey

    1) To watch: Hockey! to play: basketball πŸ™‚
    2) i’ll have to break the rules and go with Sarah Connor from Terminator, whenever ‘badass woman’ comes up, i always think of her πŸ˜›

    thank you so much for this contest! Madeleine totally gushes about your book, I can’t wait to read it!! And i’d prefer to not enter for the critiques (hehe, non-novelist dropping by here :P) thanks and CONGRATS! πŸ™‚

  • Bob

    1) Wrestling

    2) Misty May Treanor (I guess with that my sport choice should have been beach volleyball!)

  • Shalena @ Writer Quirk

    1. I love to play basketball but watch football.
    2. Since I’ve played basketball most of my life, I’ve always looked up to Pat Summit. She has more wins than any NCAA Division I coach (men or women) and is a great role model for strong women everywhere.

    Thanks for this and congratulations!

  • blackroze37@yahoo.com

    i like ot be enter, but not the criqueing thing,

    im not into sports. but the toughtest lady hmm michelle obambe, she dances in front of 100+ cameras, she got to have something amazin

  • thejay2xa

    1. My favorite sports would be Volleyball and Badminton πŸ™‚
    2. My favorite Badass woman is Angelina Jolie!

    fallendream03 AT gmail DOT com

    would love to win the gc and some arcs πŸ™‚

  • mfay2

    Enter me for the ARC only, please.
    Favorite sport? I don’t really have one but I like to watch college football.
    Woman? Um, ah! Beth from Dog the Bounty Hunter! haha

    marynellie8 at yahoo dot com

  • AmyBeth Inverness

    1. Curling. You gotta have moxie to wear pants like the Norwegian Olympic team.
    2. Nichelle Nichols, for putting up with crap and worse in order to represent a minority character in a position of authority in sixties television.

  • Noah

    1. This is cheating, but Exy! It’s a fictional sport I developed over ten years for a novel. If I had to choose a real sport, it’d have to be hockey. Gotta love something that fast paced and violent.
    2. Angelina Jolie. BAMF.

  • Sunshine

    1. Triathlon- no sport for me has been more empowering!
    2. With regards to triathlon- UK’s Chrissie Wellington…otherwise the main character from my own book Mia Garrett.

  • Joe Selby

    Awesome contest! Thank you for hosting it.

    1a) Favorite sport to watch: Hockey (Go Bruins!)
    1b) Favorite sport to play: kickball (tied with four-square)

    2) Bad ass woman: Hadassah (a name I love) later known as Esther, queen of Persia. Revealed her own ethnicity to stop a massacre when it might have gotten her killed.

    (For not necessarily bad ass but still awesome women, I recommend this strip: http://xkcd.com/896/)

  • Riv Re

    Awesome! Thanks so much, and congrats on getting your ARCs!
    1)My favorite sport is Quidditch.
    …
    No, really, it’s swimming (and horse-back riding, though I rarely do that) Not even competitive swimming, just for fun. πŸ™‚
    2)I’m assuming this can’t be fictional. I’ve never really had a role-model…*thinks* Can I be cliche and say Amelia Earheart?

    Thanks for the giveaway! I don’t want to be entered for the critiques. (Still drafting….)
    rivkarno1(At)Hotmail(dot)com

  • Breann

    1.) Favorite sport: Volleyball!

    2.) Favorite bad ass woman: Harriet Tubman

    I’m only interested in winning a book/gift card.

    Thanks for the chance to win! πŸ™‚

  • Tiffany D.

    This is awesome, thank you!

    1) Badminton- I am the undefeated champion in the Badminton wars that take place in our backyard.

    2) Amelia Earheart- she had some serious guts.

    Please do not enter me for the critiques πŸ™‚ Thank you!

    jaidahsmommy(at)comcast(dot)net

  • Andrea

    Thanks for the great contest! You’re awesome!
    1. Walking (is that a sport?) or Rowing
    2. Cleopatra or Toni Morrison
    I’d love to be entered for the critiques, but I only write MG, so only those that apply to MG (is that possible)?

  • Margay

    What a great contest!

    Favorite sport? Figure skating and gymnastics (because they remind me of dancing, which I used to do)

    Favorite bad ass woman? Oprah or Ellen – both stand up for what they believe in and aren’t afraid to own it.

  • Victoria Zumbrum

    Thanks for the giveaway. I love figure skating and Buffy the Vampire Slayer. I would love to win a book or gift card for a book. Please enter me in contest. Tore923@aol.com

  • Carol Thompson

    Thanks for the giveaway.

    I am not interested in the critique.

    !. Favorute sport – Cricket

    2. Bad Ass woman – Sigourney Weaver … Ripley in the Alien novie series

    Carol T

    buddytho {at} gmail DOT com

  • Malin Larsson

    1) My favorite sport is riding.
    2) My first choice of badass women is actually Therese Alshammar, a swedish swimmer who has “DIVA” tattooed to her lower back and keeps coming back to win although she’s as “old” as 35 (sports are tough!).

    Malin (from Sweden)

  • Dim

    This is an amazing contest, by the way!

    1) My favorite sport is Tennis because, I love the feeling that you get when you step onto a tennis court. For me, it’s like I can take on the world.

    2) I look up to a lot of people, so this is a bit hard. Elizabeth I, Princess Diana, Aung San Suu Kyi, Petra Kvitova, Veronica Roth, Jennifer Lawrence, Serena Williams, Ellen DeGeneres, Jane Austen, my 4th grade teacher Mrs. Clark, my grandmama, or Suzanne Collins. I guess overall, Aung San Suu Kyi because she’s Burma’s number one advocate for Democracy and it takes a lot of guts and belief to stand up to a whole military. Also because I am from Burma!

  • Allie S

    1. Favorite sport is definitely lacrosse

    2. Favorite badass woman? Brandi Chastain.

    Great contest!

  • Amy H.

    1. My favorite sport is definitely tennis. Even though I stink at it, I still love it.

    2. I’m gonna go with Amelia Earhart as well.

    I’m only interested in winning a book/gift card.

    Can’t wait for your book to come out. It sounds great.

  • Sarah

    Favorite sport to watch is football, favorite sport to play is swimming or soccer

    Favorite badass woman would have to be my Grandma who could cook, sew, garden and build furniture . A more well known woman, Glenn Close

  • Grace Radford

    Baseball is my favorite sport. <3 πŸ˜€
    Hmm, badass woman…ohhh, Milla Jovavitch, she kicks ass.

    *just books, not cretiques, I have nothing to be reviewed yet. :]

  • Sharon Bayliss

    1. Soccer. I played in high school and I really miss getting to knock people down.
    2. Both my grandmas. One was a pioneering female professor the other took care of her family and the family business when my grandfather got polio.

    Thanks for the contest!

  • Rich Rockwood

    Downhill skiing is my favorite sport.

    Abigail Adams. Smart woman tied into American Political situation during a fascinating time period.

    Thanks!

  • Theresa Tierney

    Favorite sport: Australian Football (Who Wears Short Shorts!)

    Favorite badass women: The (Vietnamese) TrΖ°ng Sisters … (rocking the world with badass military moves during 40-43 AD).

    Interested in winning a book/gift card.

  • Andrea

    1. Golf
    2. hmm… this is a hard question. The first person that comes to my mind is Angelina Jolie. Everytime I watch a movie of hers I always think… wow! What a bad ass! So there’s my answer πŸ˜‰ lol

    don’t have a draft to be critiqued…yet!
    Thanks!
    Andrea

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