Vote for me! Vote for Queen of Souls!

[annathepiper]

So the fine folks over at Dystel & Goderich Literary Management have a blog I’ve been following for a while, and one of their agents, Mr. Jim McCarthy, is running a little contest. He invited readers to send in the first lines of their manuscripts, and from the hundreds of submissions he received, he chose nine finalists. He’s now put up a poll asking readers to choose their favorite first line, and the winner of the poll gets his attention on the full manuscript.

I’m one of the finalists, with the very first line of my as of yet unqueried Queen of Souls: “The next time Hermes brought her back from the Underworld, Persephone wept tears of rage.”

To wit, YIKES! *^_^*;;

Anybody want to vote for me, the poll is right over here.

There are some other intriguing first lines there too though, so be sure to vote which one is your actual favorite! I won’t hold it against you if you don’t actually vote for me. Though really, do you want to piss off an Olympian?

Either way, as always, thank you in advance for your support!

Mirrored from angelakorrati.com.

Comments

[damara.livejournal.com]

voted.

[annathepiper]

Yay! Thanks for voting!

[ravyngyngvar.livejournal.com]

I've voted, too.

Mind you, none of the first lines on the list beat "I was on my way home from work, biking along the Burke-Gilman trail, when a troll decided to eat my face."

[annathepiper]

That DOES remain my favorite first line of anything I've written so far! Although that's only because Bone Walker isn't done yet. :D

Thanks much for voting!

[thunderpigeon.livejournal.com]

Some tough competition there. If I'd gone in without knowing which one was yours, I _might_ have gone with Homo sapiens sluttiwhendrunkus. Or the one about the funeral. But it was close enough that I couldn't say for sure, so you got my vote.

Do you know if they'll be doing this again?

[annathepiper]

I will totally say that I quite liked the line about the five husbands, as well as the fan clubs for Captain Stupendous. :)

I don't know if DGLM will be doing this again! They've only recently started formally blogging; their staff members trade off and blog on different topics. This is the first time I've seen any of them do anything like this. But hey, who knows, they might keep it up!