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Two people have already did their part. What they thought of the stories they read have been edited in teh entry thread
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The book is now on its way back to the USA for the remaining signatures. If someone from Australia wins it will have done something in the order of 20,000 miles.
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I happen to know Snapper is a little busy at present--unavoidable non-writerly stuff--but I am sure when he has news he will share it.
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Thanks Skadder, and thank you too Laura. Your kind and thoughtful words meant a lot. Perhaps I will post something in Grist for the Mill to explain my absence.
I am sorry to leave everyone up in the air but I am still waiting for one judge. I will drop him a line. If I don't hear from him I will I posty the comments from the other two judges.
The third judge said the book looks a bit weathered. The journey has not been kind to it so he will send a second copy to the winner.
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Thanks snapper for running this challenge. Great job, despite what sounds like some extra difficulties in your non-writing life.
Congrats Ethereon, that was some story. When I read it, my immediate thought was that we were all running for minor places. Where are you thinking of sending it (if you are)?
Well done all the other finalists. There were some quite high standard stories written for this challenge. But now I'll have to go out and buy WOTF XXVI myself.
And thanks for the critiques everyone. One gave my all-time favorite piece of feedback for a story "– MEN!"
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Thanks, Snapper, for all your hard work. It was quite a feat putting this on. Hope everything is going alright now for you.
And Ehtereon, what an excellent story! Congrats! I truly hope this one has legs for you with the publishers.
Everyone's stories were very good. Thanks to everyone for all the feedback. As always, it's invaluable. And thanks to the celebrity judges for taking time to do this, too.
Thanks snapper for putting this all together. Sorting through everything that was sent to you, reposting it etc. must have been a lot of work. You're a great facilitator.
It was really fun to read everyone's stories and great to get so much valuable feedback!
@Brendan. Yes, I do look forward to sending this one out once I've done some revisions based on everyone's comments. As to where, I'm not sure yet. If you have any ideas of where it would "fit" well, please suggest away. (I haven't had a chance to do as much reading as I'd like, so most of what I know about markets is from duotrope).
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Congratulations to everyone and well done Ethereon. I'd already guessed you would win, and bought my copy of the book. I will see Skadder on Saturday and I can get him to sign it for me.
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Yeah. Entries were due Sept 30. There will probably be another in a couple of weeks - too many people doing Nano at the moment.
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Yep. I revised quickly and threw it into the void! I already have a rejection from a fast pro market but I think it might have made it past the slush reader. That would be exciting, so that's what I'll choose to believe I was thinking, if the next rejection comes before Dec 31st, maybe I could send it to a... different contest? What do you think snapper? Would it be silly to send such a sort story?
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You know I really hate it when these older threads bubble up to the top. I see them and think I've missed something until I open it up and find out it's and older thread with updates.
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