Writing for Children and Teens
AuthorsNow! Debut Authors on the InternetCritique #2 from Editor Karen Chaplin, Puffin/Speak Books
The Prize: One critique of the first five-pages of your double-spaced manuscript for a middle grade or young adult novel.
The Darer: Karen Chaplin is an Editor at Puffin/Speak Books, Penguin Young Readers Group. Karen acquires middle grade and young adult fiction. Some of the projects she has worked on include the Students Across the Seven Seas (S.A.S.S.) series, Paris Pan Takes the Dare by Cynthea Liu, Zombie Queen of Newbury High by Amanda Ashby, Exclusively Chloe by J. A. Yang, and The Specialists series by Shannon Greenland. Karen is looking for fun, original series fiction as well as stand-alone fiction for the middle grade and young adult markets. The genres she is looking for include chick lit, fun action/adventure series (boy and girl), mysteries, horror/paranormal, romance, stories with strong female characters (including topics such as sisters and friendships), anything boy-centric, and commercial literary and edgy fiction.
The Dare: Place a minimum bid of $35 by leaving a comment, then outbid the highest bidder until you win! *All winners must take the solemn critiquee oath.*
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PARIS PAN, nominated for Texas Lone Star Reading List 2010
Paris Pan Takes the Dare draws you in and won't let you go until the end." 
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