Teen Eyes Website
Teen Eyes is the editorial service for your YA manuscript. We bring a dual perspective that your critique partners and beta readers may not have: we are the age demographic of your future target audience–teens–as well as experienced writers ourselves. Both are avid readers of every genre, and we pride ourselves on our quick turnaround on submitted manuscripts.
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About Kate: Kate has completed eight novels to date. Her fifth novel, tentatively titled LIKE CLOCKWORK, won the 2010 PUSH Novel Contest. It is currently undergoing revisions with Jody Corbett at Scholastic Press. She is represented by Edward Necarsulmer IV of McIntosh & Otis. In addition to having extensive experience as a freelance editor, Kate worked as an intern at Scholastic Press where she read many (agented and unagented) submissions. She now works as an intern at Deseret Books. She is 18 years old and lives in Salt Lake City, Utah.
Kate loves all things fantasy, contemporary, and middle grade. To learn more about her, visit her website or follow her on Twitter.
About Taryn: As of July 2011, Taryn has completed eleven novels. They range from YA contemporary to fantasy to YA thrillers to everything in between. She is a kidlit intern with a nationally renown literary agency where she reads lots and lots of manuscripts. Also 18, Taryn lives in Seattle but attends college in Kentucky where she is triple-majoring in English, Creative Writing, and Latin.
If you have a dystopian, mystery, or thriller novel, Taryn would love to check it out. Other elements she enjoys in books include sports, female-empowerment, and re-done myths.
Visit her website or follow her on Twitter to learn more.
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This is SUCH a fabulous idea!!
I SO wish I’d gotten started writing that young! How awesome 😀
I’ll totally pass this contest around!!
I’m so excited!!! I have a YA dystopian that really needs a pair of teen eyes. Can’t wait to get this started!
Thanks to Jolene passing it on, I’m entering too!
Thanks so much for doing this for us! We really appreciate it :).
These young women are fantabulous!! I interviewed them on my blog earlier this summer after winning a critique by Taryn. She did wonders for my MS…you’ll be in great hands. Am off to tweet this and get the word out!
Wow – what a great contest! Thanks so much for offering it. I’ll be telling everyone about it 🙂
I can’t resist your contests! You have such cool ones! 🙂
Oh, wow! I’d love some (fellow) teen eyes. You guys are shrewd businesswomen indeed… =P
Yay! I’m so glad to see you guys joining – We’re going to have lots of fun! <3
You did it again. Should be a great contest!
Awesome idea!! You have the best blogfests, darlin ;o)
Victor Standish, my YA urban fantasy hero, will be there for me. Sounds like fun! Roland
What a great idea guys! Thanks
This sounds great! I can’t wait to get started!
Hi, Brenda,
Another great blogfest…. YAY! This is awesome. I’ll look forward to see what these girls have to say.
Another awesome blogfest/contest, Brenda!
Sounds like a lot of fun! I look forward to reading everyone else’s 🙂
It sounds awesome! I’m looking forward to seeing what people post. 🙂
What a COOL concept!!! I love it and I might just have to check out that site!
Another awesome contest! I’m so glad I’m almost done revising! Can’t wait to see what the girls have to say!! 🙂
You can’t beat Teen Eyes, looking at your story. I will certainly pass this around.
Great idea! Can’t wait to hear the feedback. Thnx!
Wonderful! Great Timing! Thanks for the opportunity!
Thanks. Great idea.
Fun contest! I love the Teen Eyes girls. 🙂
What fun!!! Can’t wait for the 21st!
Thanks so much for hosting this. 🙂
Sweet! Thanks for the contest.
Thanks for hosting the blogfest. It sounds like a great one!
I’m in! Thanks for hosting; this sounds great.
It sounds like we’ll be having lots of fun. Looking forward to it.
Cool contest! Thanks!
So excited that you all are participating – I can’t wait to read all the entries! <3
Sounds like a good one!
Thanks.
Awesome contest! I’ll be sure to stop back!
Super! Thanks a lot, christy
I’m sure I’ll be in the minority yet again for writing (20th century) historical fiction, but it sounds like a good opportunity.
Wow! this is awesome! for a writer of YA fantasy, this is exactly what I’m looking for. fab contest, as usual. Thank you for the opportunity.
Here we go again! The teen comments on my first 250 words from the last contest sent my first few pages into a whirlwind. Let’s see how they landed!
Yay! I’m so glad you all are joining up! I can’t wait to read everyone’s stuff, and since I have no judge responsibilities or other stuff going on, I’ll actually get to hop around the blogs and comment this time. <3
Those two girls are amazing!
What a great opportunity. Thanks for hosting.
Cool contest. Sounds like a lot of fun and great experience.
Is 250 the limit on words, or can we put a few more in? I have a little under 300 words in what’ll be my entry, and if I cut it short, I’ll have a slightly confusing end to my entry.
The limit is 250 words, but please don’t cut off a sentence. If 250 words ends in the middle of a sentence, then please go to the end of the sentence within reason.
@ Forbidden – 300 words is too much for this contest. Don’t worry about it making sense, it’s just to see if you have the voice and can catch the teens in those first crucial words.
Okay. I’ll just put it back a little then and hope for the best. I’ll be waiting for your update, with anxious fingers.
Sounds like fun! I can’t wait to read all the entries. 🙂
This is my first first 250 contest. I have always shied away from them because I haven’t been able to whittle enough words. This time, though, I hunkered down and chopped, chopped, chopped.
Thanks for hosting!
This seems like a great contest. I hope that my book is eligible for consideration.
Thank you for the opportunity to share my new project Brenda. I look forward to hearing what the target audience has to say.
Thank you for hosting this contest. It’ll be fun to read everyone’s entries!
great blog contest! Thanks for putting this on. Now on to reading everyone’s entry!
I may have made a mistake in my entry. I put the basic URL for my blog. The sample from my book is at this address:
http://scottswrittenwords.blogspot.com/p/sample-bones-of-earth.html
Is it possible for you to change that?
Thanks for doing this!
This is great! I’ll be sure to tell others. 🙂
What a superb idea!
Thanks so much for the contest! Very cool!!
I would join in the fun but have already gotten my Teen Eyes Editorial. Would like to offer another glowing endorsement, tho. I am a VERY satisfied customer. Kate is a fabulous 40-year-old editor in an 18-year-old body!
How fun! I love Kate and TEEN EYES!!
Can we enter more than one story?
Exciting! Thanks for the fabulous contest and thanks to the judges as well!
This is fun! I have enjoyed reading entries. Now we have to submit our entry here in this comment section before midnight? Was wondering if accurate as I didnt see any other entries here…and do we post a changed entry based on the feedback we got? (If we did decide to change)
@ Donna Galanti – Yes, this is the wrong post. Please post your entry here: http://brenleedrake.blogspot.com/2011/09/its-on-can-you-hook-teen-blogfest.html
If I don’t see yours on the official entry post, I’ll move it later, somehow. I did send you a direct message by Twitter.
Sorry for the confusion!
REMINDER TO ALL: Please don’t post entries here – go to the post dated 9/21/11
Okay, it was fun reading everyone’s entries. If I missed yours, I’m sorry. There were several that weren’t up when I went through making comments. Let me know if I did because I love reading your work.
Thanks for joining in on the fun! <3
I read this before traveling and totally forgot until I got home and saw it on twitter just now. Too late to do the linky list and critique part. I hope that doesn’t disqualify me. I did post my entry in the contest blog. I’m taking brain donations, if you have extra.
Do you have an idea of win the winners will be announced? And will you contact the winners on their blog or do we need to keep checking back here?
Yeah, I’m soooo nervous!
@ Sher, you don’t have to do the blogfest part, so entry is good.
@ Donna, the winners will be announced on my blog on Monday. I will also contact the winners.
Brenda, Sorry, I just saw this and sorry I couldnt find the official contest link to post my entry in the right location. Thanks for hosting a great contest!