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DRUMROLL...Announcing our March On with Mentor Text Prize Winners!


Thank you everyone who participated and promoted our March On With Mentor Text

Inaugural Yearly Event!


I offer profuse apologies for the delay in posting the winners, as I have had a rough few months with putting our house up for sale and searching for a new one, as well as moving temporarily to Kentucky and back (and getting COVID on top of everything).


To expedite the *late* process of claiming prizes, please contact the Author via the e-mail or form provided, with MARCH ON WITH MENTOR TEXT PRIZE in the subject line of the e-mail or form. Also, please tweet or share your good news on facebook and give these generous authors some cyber-love.


But without further delay, here are our winners:


Prize: The Three Little Pigs and the Rocket Project eBook and 15 Min Zoom Q & A

Winner: Maria Marshall


Prize: Four Otters Toboggan PLUS Book Swag

Winner: Laurie Stewart Fortier


Prize: Critique

Winner: Mona Pease

Contact: via form on website


Prize #1: Planting Friendship and Book Swag

Winner: Debra Daugherty

Prize #2: Critique

Winner: Cindy Sommer

Contact: via form on website


Prize: Non-rhyming critique under 1000 words

Winner: Vasilia Grabowski

Contact: via form on website (under creative corner)


Prize: Signed Copy of Hustle Bustle Bugs

Winner: Donna Rossman

Contact: RYSCyberOffice@gmail.com (Prize will be mailed in late July)


Prize: Signed Copy of Bugs for Breakfast

AND 30-Min Ask Me Anything Video Call

Winner: Mary McLellan

Contact: via form on website


Prize: Signed and Personalized Book -

Choose from Hey, Hey, Hay or Free for You and Me

Winner: Michelle Steinberg

Contact: via form on website


Prize: Author’s Choice

Winner: Stacey Gustafson

Contact: via form on website


Prize: Author’s Choice

Winner: Natalie Tanner


Prize: Submission Package Critique

Winner: MD Knabb

Contact: via form on website


Prize: His Debut Book

Winner: John McGranaghan

Contact: via form on website




Prize: Zoom Critique

Winner: Julie C. Hansen


Prize: The Three Little Pigs and the Rocket Project Digital and 15 Min. Zoom Q & A

Winner: Lenora Rougeau Biemans


Prize: The Writer’s Planner

Winner: Jenna Johnson


Prize: Author’s Choice

Winner: Kim Jensen Larsen


Prize: 15 Minute Zoom Chat

Winner: Denise of Ingleside


Prize: 1 Non-Fiction Critique (5-10 Pages)

Winner: Cheryl Cook Johnson

Contact: info@lydialukids.com or via form on website


Prize: Critique of one hybrid picture book manuscript

Winner: Mary Claire K

Contact: via form on webiste


Prize: PB Critique

Winner: Judy Wilkins Sobanski


Prize: The Three Little Pigs and the Rocket Project Digital AND 15 Min Zoom

Winner: Karen Gebbia


Prize: ½ Hour Illustration Consultation and

Illustrator’s Choice of Coloring Book PDF

Winner: Read / Comment on Dea’s Post that you are an illustrator.

We will pick from those at the end of the month!

Contact: via form on website


Prize: See post for Winner Options

Winner: Lisa M. Horn

Contact: via form on website


Prize: Picture Book Critique with 30 Min. Zoom

Winner: Sarah Meade

Contact: helenhwubooks@gmail.com

Website: www.helenwu.com


Prize: Three books mentioned in the post!

Winner: Katherine Gail Hartman

Contact: via form on website


Prize: Critique of 1st 3 Chapters of a Chapter Book

Winner: Alison McGauley

Contact: via form on website


Prize: Wake Up Freight Train

Winner: Angie Quantrell

Contact: via form on website


Prize: Author’s Choice - Author will advise

Winner: Sallye O’Rourke


Prize: 30-Min Q & A Phone Call

Winner: Marie Prins

Contact: via form on website


Prize: Author’s Choice - Author will advise

Winner: Donna Williams Marx

Contact: via form on website


Prize: Three Half Hour Mentoring Sessions, 1 to Each of 3 Winners

Winners: Suzy Leopold

Karen Gebbia

Jeannette Suhr


Thank you, everyone for participating! I will be giving additional prizes of 15 min zoom consultations to select winners who share their favorite post and tag @RateYourStory and @Literally_Lynne.


IMPORTANT INFO: All prizes need to be redeemed within one month of this post (September 12, 2022). Any prizes not redeemed or used by that time will expire. Please understand that the authors work hard and have busy lives so we don’t want them to have to track the prizes past that date.


Our Authors worked hard and all they got was "this lousy badge"! Even a lousy t-shirt is better LOL




And lastly, please mark your calendars for next year! Thanks again!




If you were not a prize winner this year, be sure to come back next year, and at the very least, we have a participant badge for you. Please grab it if you'd like and feel free to link it back to: https://www.rateyourstory.org/march-on


And for those who were waiting...Spring Contest Winners coming soon!


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