The Prize: One critique of  the first chapter of your young adult novel (10 pages max, double-spaced), your synopsis (2 pages, single-spaced max), AND your query letter (one page max).  *The author would like to note that due to her schedule, the soonest she can return your critique will be mid-August.*  That gives you plenty of time to shine it up!

Malinda Lo

The Darer: Malinda Lo is the former managing editor of AfterEllen.com, the largest entertainment news website for lesbians and bisexual women. In 2006, Malinda was awarded the Sarah Pettit Memorial Award for Excellence in LGBT Journalism by the National Gay and Lesbian Journalists Association. She has also been associate editor at Curve Magazine and an editorial assistant at Ballantine Books. Her first novel, ASH, a lesbian retelling of Cinderella, will be published in September 2009 by Little, Brown Books for Young Readers. Visit her online at www.malindalo.com.

About ASH

Ash

In the wake of her father’s death, Ash is left at the mercy of her cruel stepmother. Consumed with grief, her only joy comes by the light of the dying hearth fire, re-reading the fairy tales her mother once told her. In her dreams, someday the fairies will steal her away, as they are said to do. When she meets the dark and dangerous fairy Sidhean, she believes that her wish may be granted.

The day that Ash meets Kaisa, the King’s Huntress, her heart begins to change. Instead of chasing fairies, Ash learns to hunt with Kaisa. Though their friendship is as delicate as a new bloom, it reawakens Ash’s capacity for love—and her desire to live. But Sidhean has already claimed Ash for his own, and she must make a choice between fairy tale dreams and true love.

Entrancing, empowering, and romantic, Ash is about the connection between life and love, and solitude and death, where transformation can come from even the deepest grief.

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