The Prize: One critique of the first three chapters of your fiction young adult novel (30 double-spaced pages max.) Line-edit of your first chapter and directional suggestions for the rest. WOW!

Tara Kelly

The Darer: Tara Kelly is a Jill of all trades–a YA author, one-girl band, web/graphic designer, video editor and photographer. She lives in Bellingham, Washington with her ten guitars, supercool bf, and a fluffy cat named Maestro. Her debut YA novel, HARMONIC FEEDBACK, will be released in Spring 2010 with Henry Holt Books for Young Readers.

About HARMONIC FEEDBACK

Doctors have pinned 16-year-old Drea Horvath with everything from ADHD to Asperger’s Syndrome. She has an obsession with sound design, a tendency to blurt out whatever she’s thinking, and a problem making friends, but likes to think of this as following her own rhythm in a confusing world.

Drea is hesitant to befriend purple-haired Naomi Quinn, her teenage neighbor with a kamikaze personality. But Naomi is the first person to treat her like she isn’t a world class dork. Then there’s Justin Rocca, the sexy and persistent boy in her film class. If she’s learned anything from her mom, it’s that boys are trouble.

When Drea discovers Naomi’s love for drums and Justin’s piano prodigy status, the three form a trip-hop band and a friendship that will challenge everything Drea thought she knew about herself and the world around her.

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