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Welcome to the 2015 Minotaur Books/Mystery Writers of America Best First Novel Competition!

Please read all of the rules and guidelines before submitting your entry. You can find the complete rules and guidelines at us.macmillan.com/minotaurbooks/writing-competitions.
To enter, you must complete this form and upload an electronic file of your Manuscript.

Only electronic submissions, uploaded through this entry form, will be considered; do not mail or e-mail
manuscript submissions to Minotaur Books.

• Before uploading, please ensure that your Manuscript is formatted as follows:
• 1) The Manuscript must be either a Microsoft Word document or a PDF
• 2) Text must be double spaced
• 3) Pages must be numbered consecutively from beginning to end
• 4) The Manuscript must be saved as “Manuscript Title_Entrant Name”

Because of the great volume of submissions we receive and the fact that judges are volunteers with full-time responsibilities elsewhere, it is important that you submit your Manuscript as early as possible. Submissions will get a more careful reading if the judge does not have to contend with a flood of last-minute entries.

To be considered for the 2015 competition, all submissions must be received by 11:59pm on December 15,
2014.

If you have questions or need further clarification regarding the rules and guidelines of this competition, you may contact us at [email protected].

Talk tomorrow,

Kathy

I can now let you know that Rebecca Frazer, formerly Acquisitions Editor at Sourcebooks has joined the Hachette Group as Editorial Director at Orchard Books in London. Her focus will be on acquiring Middle Grade and Young Adult novels. Rebecca has agreed to join us in June at our annual conference and is open to accepting manuscripts from the US authors and writers that attend our conference.

In other industry news:

Cindy DiTiberio has been promoted to senior editor at Harper.

At Simon & Schuster Children’s imprints Simon Spotlight & Simon Scribbles, Siobhan Ciminera has been promoted to executive editor; Lisa Rao moves up to editor; and Beth Barton has been promoted to associate editor.

Thomas LeBien will join Simon & Schuster as vp, senior editor, specializing in history and non-fiction. He was most recently at FSG, where he was publisher of the Hill & Wang and Scientific American imprints. LeBien starts at S&S on December 21.

Bree Ogden has joined D4EO Literary Agency. She has been an associate literary agent at Martin Literary Management for nearly 2 years, where she concentrated on YA, middle grade and graphic novels.

Angus Killick is joining Macmillan Children’s in the new position of vp, associate publisher, reporting to president Jon Yaged. Killick will coordinate publishing programs across the group’s imprints, lead the children’s marketing team, oversee key marketing campaigns, and pursue business development opportunities. He was associate publisher and director of marketing at Kingfisher.

Talk tomorrow,

Kathy

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