Monday, November 5, 2012

Sixty Page Manuscript Critique From Philomel Editor Kiffin Steurer- TWO AVAILABLE


Thank you for supporting the Red Cross relief effort to aid those affected by Hurricane Sandy.  Various services have been donated by publishing industry professionals to be auctioned off to the highest bidder, with donations going directly to the Red Cross Disaster Relief Fund.  Good luck and happy bidding! For more details on how this auction works, please visit here.

This auction is for one of TWO offered sixty-page manuscripts from Associate Editor Kiffin Steurer of Penguin's Philomel imprint.  THE TOP TWO BIDDERS WILL EACH WIN A CRITIQUE FROM KIFFIN.



A graduate of Sarah Lawrence College’s MFA Creative Writing program, Kiffin has been an editor with Philomel Books since 2006. He edits and assists senior editors with picture books, and middle-grade and YA novels.  He has contributed to the Ranger’s Apprentice and Brotherband Chronicles series by John Flanagan, the novels of Mike Lupica and Anthony Horowitz, and the picture books of Oliver Jeffers, among others. He is the lead editor on the superhero series Super Human by Michael Carroll, the picture book The World’s Greatest Lion, and the graphic novel Stickman Odyssey, Book 2: The Wrath of Zozimos—a reinterpretation of Homer’s The Odyssey using stickmen. 

23 comments:

  1. Oh my, jumping in the ring with this lion. $40 ( I know I will have to return)

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  2. Jennifer, can you confirm if Kiffin's offer is for "up to 60 pages" of a manuscript, or only for ms that is complete at 60 pages?
    Thanks,
    Judy

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  3. Hi Judy- this is for first sixty pages of any length manuscript! Good luck!

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    1. Please be sure to leave contact information so that I can alert you when bidding closes, if you are the winner. Unfortunately, bids without contact information will be discarded. If you'd prefer you may email contact info to auctionforsandy@yahoo.com- be sure to reference which listing you've bid on. Thanks and good luck!

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  5. $275 martijohnson@comcast.net

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  6. $310. What a wonderful opportunity. Thank you!

    SARAH8778 (at) aol (dot) com

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  7. $315 I'll send over my email if I win this

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  8. Congratulations to Skywriter and Cynthia for their winning bids! So sorry, anonymous, it came in after auction close...

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