Auction Item # 1: The Writing & Critique Group Survival Guide/Critique from Becky Levine

KidLit for the Philippines is an online talent auction to benefit Mercy Corps and UNICEF relief efforts for Typhoon Haiyan (aka Yolanda). Agents, editors, authors, and illustrators have donated various services and items to be auctioned off to the highest bidder, with donations being made directly to Mercy Corps and UNICEF.

Description: Becky will donate a signed copy of The Writing & Critique Group Survival Guide. She will also critique the first chapter of a middle-grade or YA novel or a complete picture book.

Estimated Value: $100

Minimum Bid: $30

Auction Ends: 12/1/2013 at 10:00 PM EST

Bio: Becky Levine is a writer and editor. She is the author of The Writing & Critique Group Survival Guide: How to Make Revisions. Self-Edit, and Give and Receive Feedback (Writer's Digest Books, 2010), as well as two children's nonfiction books for Capstone Press. Becky was a freelance editor for five years, working directly with authors and through Writer's Digest's Second Draft critique service.

Donor Becky Levine’s website: http://beckylevine.com/  

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