HAPPY THANKSGIVING!!

May your Thanksgiving holiday be filled with lots of good food and even more good books :)

Happy Thanksgiving from all of us at Operation Awesome!

Don't forget to top off your holiday weekend with our Mystery Editor Contest on Sunday, December 1st! Here are the details:
*50 entries, with one-line pitch and first 250 words.
*M.E. (Mystery Editor) is currently seeking Young Adult, New Adult, and Adult contemporary romance. *Not currently interested in YA paranormal.
*Grand prize winner gets a 10-page critique, and M.E. will request at least 2 full manuscripts for consideration.
*The contest opens on December 1st at 10am Eastern Standard Time.

Also, the awesome authors on my other blog, Scene 13, are doing a Gratitude Giveaway - you can enter to win a ton of awesome prizes (can you say FREE BOOKS!!) :D So head on over and enter!! CLICK HERE TO ENTER.

October Mystery Agent 411!

We've got a new mystery agent contest coming up on October 1st and this one is a little bit different. And it's going to be FUN! :)

Instead of one line pitches, our Mystery Agent wants to see the first 250 words of your manuscript!

The contest will go live as usual at 10 EST and this time we will be accepting the first 30 qualified entries. So be ready to go when the post goes up! Do not post entries on this post - only entries posted on the official contest post that will go live on October 1st will be counted.

Here is what our agent is looking for:

Upper Middle Grade
Young Adult
New Adult
Commercial Fiction
Memoir
Narrative Non-fiction
Historical Fiction

We'll see you back here on the 1st!

New MA Contest Coming Soon!!

We've got another great Mystery Agent all lined up for August 1st!!

This time, our MA will be taking 50 3-line pitches. That's right.....3 LINE PITCHES! You get three whole sentences to wow our MA, so get them polished up! (As a reminder, please make sure you are posting three actual sentences and three sentences only. Creative punctuation can really only be stretched so far)  ;-)

Here are a few deets on what our MA is looking for:


Current wish list:

New Adult
Young Adult
Middle Grade
Adult

In these genres:

Fantasy
Romance
Paranormal
Historical
Contemporary
Horror
Light SF
Thrillers

Specifically looking for:

• A MG mystery full of wit, suspense, and adventure. 
• An authentic and relatable male protagonist in YA.
• Something truly unique and different in NA - a story where the characters and their stories linger long after the book is finished.

So, get those pitches polished and ready for August 1st! The first 50 qualifying pitches will be accepted.