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Comment by sara selznick on January 9, 2012 at 8:09am

Ya, Meg, my novel is social justice up the wazoo--a hundred years of African-American history and sixty years of Eastern European Jewish history with all the parallels between them (from "good" hair and "bad" noses to pogroms and "passing" to survive. I think it's mostly about the ways that people absorb and internalize bigotry, from childhood on, and about how many generations it can take to heal severe trauma and possible ways to do that.

But, I did not submit it for the Bellweather. As Farzana said, please feel free to remove my first line and title.

You know, it really helps to find that there are others out there doing this as well. Thanks for this thread and for the heads up on the Bellweather Prize. Sara

Comment by farzana on January 9, 2012 at 6:45am

P.s. Meg, thanks so much for being a fantastic moderator and continually striving to find opportunities for us!

Comment by farzana on January 9, 2012 at 6:44am

Meg, I did not submit to the Bellwether prize, my apologies.  Feel free to remove my first line and title.  My novel is about culture and relationships and there are allusions to social constructs of prejudice but I am not sure that in itself would qualify.

Comment by sara selznick on January 8, 2012 at 8:17pm

No problem, Meg, I'm close to being ready, but since this ain't horse-shoes or dancing, close doesn't count.

Sara

Comment by Lisa W. Rosenberg on January 8, 2012 at 2:58pm

Thanks again for doing this, Meg.  Both reminding us about the contest and compiling the list for your agent!

Much appreciation to your agent too!

Comment by Regina Y. Swint on January 8, 2012 at 2:22pm

Awww.  No worries.  I just appreciate being in such good company here on She Writes.  The benefits of living vicariously through the rest of you are immense. So, there will be plenty of other opportunities for feedback, from 20,000 or so others.  :)

I'll keep pushing and prodding away at my thoughts, and we'll see comes out of all that.  Thanks, anyway.  :)

Comment by Lori Duffy Foster on January 8, 2012 at 2:20pm

That is very kind of you and your agent, Meg.

Comment by Meg Waite Clayton on January 8, 2012 at 2:12pm

With apologies if this wasn't clear from the original blog post: if you posted a title and first sentence for novels submitted to the Bellwether Prize, that is what I am asking my agent to look at. These are the kinds of novels she represents and by definition have to be complete manuscripts to be submitted, and I would hate to impose on her to look at titles of things different than what she represents, or titles and lines for manuscripts that aren't yet complete. (The authors she represents are folks like Pat Conroy, Arthur Phillips, Thrity Umrigar, and Masha Hamilton.) There are 20,000 member of shewrites, and I couldn't possibly ask her to look at 20,000 lines and titles. Hence the narrowing of the field. Again, please accept my apologies if that wasn't clear. 

Comment by Regina Y. Swint on January 8, 2012 at 12:25pm

Hi, Meg!

Thanks for doing this for us.

I'm not sure why my line didn't post here before.  Probably my connection dropped before the comment added.  I hope I can share it now.  But to be fair, I'm still hem-hawing about if I want to develop it into fictional story or keep it nonfiction.  Anyway, here it is:

Title:  Monsters Under the Bed
First line:  Sometimes, I wake up screaming.

Comment by Meg Waite Clayton on January 8, 2012 at 11:25am

For anyone who posted a title and first line on this thread, I've put the list together for my agent. Please make sure I didn't miss anyone by looking HERE and confirming what I need confirmed there. 

 

Thanks!

 

Meg

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