Read this interesting account of her experience entering and winning the 2019 Manuscript Contest from author Hollie Smurthwaite. The article appears on her own website. Click to read her story.
Excerpt:
Back in 2018, I attended a series of Northbrook Writes lectures at the Northbrook Public Library. Each time, there was a flier on the table about the Soon to be Famous Illinois Author Manuscript Project. What a great deal–free to enter and the prizes were pretty nice: line editing, book cover, and an automatic semi-finalist for the 2020 Soon to Be Famous Illinois Author Project contest. So cool! And I had a manuscript that I thought could be ready for beta readers by the end of the year ...
