Third time’s the charm: Our annual Write Away Summer contest
Brought to you by RE:BOOKS
How did you spend last summer? Were you too busy having fun in the sun to be distracted by your dream of writing a book? We don’t blame you. Roughly 97% of people who start to write a book never finish.
Well, the third time’s the charm. It’s our third annual #WriteAwaySummer Contest, where this year’s winner is GUARANTEED to be published by RE:BOOKS — an independent publishing house based in Toronto that publishes and celebrates female authors across all genres, no experience or agent required.
This year, we’re opening up our genre range to more than just non-fiction (although they’re totally welcome, too!). We’re currently on the hunt for commercial fiction, memoirs, non-fiction, romcoms, thrillers, YA, and beach reads.
We believe what's good is read and what’s read is good. Reading should never feel like a choRE: We want to make it fun again!
If you’re an interested aspiring or experienced female or non-binary author, send us your manuscript, half manuscript, or at least three sample chapters and an outline of your book idea. (You can even send us books that have been re:jected by other publishers.)
So, throw away your summer plans and get to writing that book you’ve always wanted to write. This opportunity is too good to pass up!
Send your manuscript to rebookspublishing@gmail.com by Sept. 22. The finalists will be announced in October, and the winner will be announced by Dec. 1. Following that, we’ll begin the publishing process “write away!” Before you enter, be sure to read the contest rules here.
What really goes on between prison walls and in the hearts and minds of inmates? Few know better than Phyllis Taylor who, inspired by an Oprah Winfrey interview of incarcerated women, left a comfortable career as a legal secretary at a high-profile international law firm to volunteer at her local jail. Her role was to “educate the weary, read to the illiterate, and stop the bleeding.” Before long, she was working throughout the prison system and coaching small-time drug dealers, serial rapists, and even hardened murderers on anger management, gratitude, forgiveness, and positive thinking. Touching thousands of lives, she became a popular motivational speaker, widely renowned as “The Prison Lady.” Now, for the first time, she tells the story of her fascinating, sometimes chilling, and uplifting work among prison populations. With uncommon honesty and intimacy, she relates the experiences of the inmates who affected her most, offers the life lessons gained learned through counselling the marginalized, and reveals the personal history that helps her identify with rude beginnings and untidy lives.
PRE-ORDER THE BOOK HERE OR HERE
The Prison Lady: True Stories And Life Lessons From Both Sides of the Bars by Phyllis Taylor will be released on October 24, 2022.
xo,
Rebecca