Writer Unboxed

Just a quick note. C. Hope Clark’s blog just announced a great contest for children’s book writers who have yet to break into the business. Check out the Cheerios contest site for all of the details, but here are some of the pertinent contest rules from their site:
WHAT IS THE CONTEST?
The Cheerios Book Contest encourages […]

of Sophie Masson’s Demigods and Monsters contest. Sophie recently co-authored an anthology called Demigods and Monsters, which is being sold exclusively through Borders (link unavailable). She asked WU readers to name the Gorgon killed by Perseus. (Psst…Medusa!) The first three readers who did so were able to score themselves a book. The winners are:
Mallika
Riley
and
Gavin.
Congrats to […]

CONTEST! CONTEST! CONTEST!
Through the generosity of Ben Bella Books, three lucky readers of Writer Unboxed can win a copy of Demigods and Monsters, the anthology mentioned at the end of my post. Just answer this simple question: What was the name of the Gorgon killed by Perseus? The first three entries with the correct […]

You know how you start Googling something and you end up in a completely different place on the Intertubes than where you originally wanted to go?
I don’t know how I landed HERE, but I’ve just spent a delightful afternoon reading What if the Lord of the Rings was written by Someone Else? (I gotta talk […]

Update: the book contest has come to a close, and CATHY J is the winner! Thanks to all who entered.
Ann Aguirre is today’s guest blogger and the author of Grimspace–a complex sci-fi novel with romantic elements, superlatively drawn characters and an unending bag of plot-twist tricks. Oh, and a book that hit #8 on the […]

Looks like the latest trend in publishing, the peer-selected novel, is gathering steam.  Gather.com’s second contest, this time for romance novels, has selected not one but TWO winners:

What do a 28-year-old PhD student from the University of Chicago and a 56-year-old horse farmer from rural Michigan have in common? Both of these lucky women will […]

Hot news from the NYTimes:
Joining the growing list of publishers that use public votes to decide what to publish, Penguin Group is teaming with Amazon.com and Hewlett Packard for the Amazon Breakthrough Novel Award. From today through Nov. 5, contestants from 20 countries can submit unpublished manuscripts of English-language novels to Amazon, which will assign […]

If you missed WU’s Wednesday interview with Karin Tabke, you missed not only a fun Q&A but mention of a cool contest. Karin’s First Line’s contest was to begin today, but some unexpected writing duties have made that impossible for Karin. Instead, plan on the contest beginning on MONDAY, OCTOBER 15th at her blogsite. Here’s […]

You know how much we love contests here at WU, so when I heard about erotic suspense author–and fellow Writing GIAMer–Karin Tabke’s First Line’s contest, I knew I’d want to announce it here on the site. Then Karin and I started chatting about other things–including the fact that she’ll soon have new works published in […]

Finally, we have ourselves a winner! Someone will soon be receiving a big, heavy box brimming over with ALL of these fabu tomes:

Writer’s Market Deluxe Edition 2008, which comes with a ONE-YEAR SUBSCRIPTION to WritersMarket.com

Guide to Literary Agents 2008

Children’s Writer’s & Illustrator’s Market 2008

Poet’s Market 2008

Novel & Short Story Writer’s Market […]

Thanks to everyone who participated in Writer Unboxed’s CONTEST, CONTEST!
Kath and I enjoyed this word-creation contest even more than our Alphasmart contest, if that’s possible. Each of the over 200 words submitted had a unique bent, but we had to choose just ten finalists. Our process? We alphabetized all the entries, sans reference to […]

Psst…new books & business links are up on the Google Notebook. Check them out HERE. And have you submitted your entry in Writer Unboxed’s CONTEST CONTEST yet? Why not? Time’s running out! Check all the details (and read our hilarious entries) HERE.
Write on, all!