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  		   Posted 5/22/2008 4:39 PM (GMT -4)    Quote This PostAlert An Admin About This Post.
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2008 On the Far Side Contest

Got fantasy, futuristic, or paranormal? Then the On the Far Side contest
is for you!!

Welcome dragons, witches, ghosties, vampires, shape shifters, unicorns,
and any creature your imagination can conjure up in a galaxy far far
away, in a time long past, or in your very own backyard.

2007 Contest: 3 manuscripts requested! Two sold so far!

OTFS IS ALL ELECTRONIC!! NO MAILING FEES!

NEW: OPTIONAL synopsis, website banners for finalists/winners

First Round Judges: trained and/or published

Requirements:

*Must not be published in full length fiction (40,000+) for the genre
entering/or not published in genre entering for past 5 years

*Entry fee: $20 members/$30 non-members

*First 20 pages of manuscript

*OPTIONAL synopsis (NEW)

*Entry received by DEADLINE: August 8, 2008

Final round judges are acquiring editors and agents of all genres of
paranormal romance. Take this opportunity to get your best work in
front of:

Erotic: Caren Johnson, Caren Johnson Literary Agency
Romantic Elements: Lois Winston, Ashley Grayson
Futuristic: Stacy Boyd, Harlequin
General Paranormal: Erika Tsang, Avon
Time Travel: TBA
Fantasy: Deborah Werksman, Sourcebooks

*NEW* Young Adult: Scott Eagan, Greyhaus Literary Agency

***Prizes***

All finalists receive a certificate and an OTFS finalist website banner
(NEW).

Winners of each category receive a check for $20, a pin, an OTFS winner
website banner (NEW), and a certificate.
2nd Place receives a check for $15 and a certificate
3rd place receives a check for $10 and a certificate

For details and entry forms, go to _http://www.romance- http://_
(http://www.romance- ffp.com/)
<_http://www.romance- http://w_ (http://www.romance- ffp.com/) >.

Amber Wentworth

2008 On the Far Side Coordinator
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J. Cheney
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  		   Posted 5/22/2008 7:38 PM (GMT -4)    Quote This PostAlert An Admin About This Post.
Thank you for posting this. I'd quite forgotten about this contest, and I have something perfect to enter this year. ;o)
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Tim
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  		   Posted 5/23/2008 12:40 PM (GMT -4)    Quote This PostAlert An Admin About This Post.
Nice summer project

 
"Dinner at Faneuil Hall" June 2007 Writer's Post Journal
"Making Sand Castles" Oct 2007 Six Sentences website
"Unmoving" Issue #8 December 2007 Twisted Tongue Magazine in the U.K.

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Jordan Lapp
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  		   Posted 5/23/2008 2:47 PM (GMT -4)    Quote This PostAlert An Admin About This Post.
I'm missing something here. The winner gets less than their entry fee back as a prize? I know I read that wrong.

Jordan Lapp
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Jim Stratton
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  		   Posted 5/23/2008 2:54 PM (GMT -4)    Quote This PostAlert An Admin About This Post.
No, I visited the web page and those amounts are the prizes. Sounds like a good deal for the publisher. They break even if they only get three entries.

Jim Stratton

Forthcoming publications:

“The Heretic” in Tower of Light Online Magazine in Issue #5.
“Living With Miracles” in Big Pulp Online Magazine in October, 2008.
“One Life, One Arrow” in Fantasist Enterprises's “Paper Blossoms, Sharpened Steel” due out in late 2009.
“Your Duty To Your Lord” in Morrigan Books' “Age of Blood & Snow”, due out Winter, 2008.

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J. Cheney
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  		   Posted 5/23/2008 4:23 PM (GMT -4)    Quote This PostAlert An Admin About This Post.
Their main selling point so far is the 2 or the 3 winners have had their MSS requested (or something like that.) It's for bragging points only.
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Jordan Lapp
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  		   Posted 5/23/2008 4:29 PM (GMT -4)    Quote This PostAlert An Admin About This Post.
But you can submit to those editors on your own... can't you?

Jordan Lapp
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  		   Posted 5/23/2008 9:39 PM (GMT -4)    Quote This PostAlert An Admin About This Post.
Yes, and the one person whom I know who's placed hasn't sold that novel yet. He did get it in with an agent, but she retired....bad luck.
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