RWA chapter contest

One of potential interest to cross-genre writers: the Futuristic, Fantasy & Paranormal chapter of RWA has extended the deadline for their chapter contest for writers who are unpublished at novel length. (Definition of unpublished seems to include "not previously published in this category" and "not published in last five years", going by the entry form.) Usual RWA deal - entry fee, but you should get some useful critique back from the judges, and it's a chance to get a manuscript in front of the editors and agents doing the final round of judging. List of final round judges at the bottom of this page: http://www.romance-ffp.com/OTFS2006Rules.htm


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***PERMISSION GRANTED TO FORWARD***

FF&P's On the Far Side contest is in danger of cancelling 3 categories
due to lack of entries. If you have a paranormal erotic, fantasy or
futuristic romance, don't miss this opportunity to get your work in
front of editors who want to publish your work!

For details, go to http://www.romance-ffp.com. Entries POSTMARKED by
August 5 will be accepted.

Andrea Wilder
2006 OTFS Coordinator

Where do *you* get your story ideas from?

I'm not sure who should be more worried about this, james_nicoll or my characters, but I've just been reading an old LJ post of his that made me think that I should go and put an extra scene in an earlier chapter just by way of pointing out that two of my characters haven't quite got the hang of this "of course we're perfectly normal humans, what makes you think we're shapeshifters!" lark yet.

(Reference: nude, cooking in the, why you shouldn't...)

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Only 400 words on Monday, partly because I was dealing with book contract renewal paperwork. Is it really two years since Loose Id accepted The Syndicate? And only 700 words yesterday and none so far today, for reasons which will doubtless count as TMI for some. I made a remark on Making Light a few days ago about waiting for the food poisoning epidemic to hit after the heat wave. Well, yes... The staff at the dental surgery were very nice about it, and said that it was going around and two of their staff were off sick with it. I am so glad that I was simply having the six-month check-up and cleaning, and was not in the middle of a root canal filling.

I actually feel much better today, but my attention span is shot, which is why I have been annoying other bloggers and forum users instead of getting on with that last 5,000 words that should really only take me two or three days .