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Writing Contest
NOTE: We changed the rules of the contest. Instead of offering only to include the story in an eBook (they simply don't sell all that well these days), going forward we'll use the contest to help select stories for the Worlds Of Fantasy anthology (a trade-paperback series). Use the feedback forms to tell us what you think.
Once again, we're behind in our duties! We're going to a once-per-year contest format and we have already received quite a few entries for the third contest - thanks to everyone for sending them! That said, there is a LOT of work creating the PDFs and posting them, etc., so we'll begin that process ASAP. The third contest will run from January 1, 2006 until the end of the year.
Well, our first contest is history, and it was an unqualified success! Several thousand contest stories were downloaded by our readers and they cast their votes for the winners. Now it’s time to move on to the next contest, so here’s how it works:
We post stories on the site and offer them to our readers free of charge.
Readers are asked to review the story using our 0-5 star rating form.
The highest rated stories win (winners are determined by a calculation of the highest number of votes in the best 20-day period. This allows people to get into the current contest quite late, if they don't want to wait for the next one).
The material can be anything from a 500-word short story to an excerpt from a full-length novel.
Based upon reader ratings, there will be one winner per 100 entries for EACH contest!That is GREAT odds on getting published (actually, everyone get published, but, you know what we mean). Plus, we'll pick a few highly-rated stories to be published in our "Hall Of Fame." And, even if you DON'T win, it's great exposure. As I mentioned above, we had thousands of downloads of our first contest stories (and much for the second contest) and we expect more the next time with all of our advertising and promoting. So, at the very least, hundreds of people (perhaps thousands) will read your story (and don't worry about your story getting "stolen" - it's a silly notion to begin with, but in any event, we'll have ratings that are dated from the people who read it!).
Click here to submit your story
We can take nearly any file format, but please try to send THE CLEANEST MSWORD, WordPerfect, QUARK, ETC. FILE. If the story is short, you can submit it in the body of your email.
No owners, employees, family of or vendors of Author’s Publishing may win this contest. By submitting the story to the contest, the author hereby represents and warrants that he/she is the sole author of the Work; that the Work is original; that the Work does not infringe upon any copyright or proprietary right, common law or statutory law; and does not contain any material of a libelous or obscene nature, or violation of privacy rights; that the Work is not in the public domain, and that the Work has not been published in any format with any company that may still own proprietary rights to the Work; that the Author holds the full power and authority to grant these rights. The author agrees to hold Author’s Publishing, LLC harmless against any claim, demand, action, suit, proceeding, or any expense whatsoever arising from claims or infringement of copyright or proprietary right, or claims of libel, obscenity, invasion of privacy, or any other unlawfulness based upon or arising out of the publication or any matter pertaining to the work.
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