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dr_phil_physicsIt's A Non-Winning Winner!
Just took a phone call from the Writers of the Future contest administrator.
There will be TWO 2004 Clarionites published in the WOTF anthology this summer.![[livejournal.com profile]](https://www.dreamwidth.org/img/external/lj-userinfo.gif)
albodgan Al Bogdan had a Second Prize winner from the Q3 contest and now I will be the sole published Finalist, also from the Q3 contest. So I'll also be getting an invite to the WOTF event this summer and presumably will be paid for the publication in the anthology. Al will have one official heckler at the event. Don't have a date yet for the WOTF event -- they are looking to change the dates so they won't have to compete with WorldCon for Locus space. (grin)
My story will be "A Man in the Moon", just over 14,000 words. This story first made it out in the world a month before Clarion at just under 3000 words and has grown up over the years. (double-grin)
Just five days into the new year and a sale already. Yay!
Dr. Phil
Just took a phone call from the Writers of the Future contest administrator.
There will be TWO 2004 Clarionites published in the WOTF anthology this summer.
albodgan Al Bogdan had a Second Prize winner from the Q3 contest and now I will be the sole published Finalist, also from the Q3 contest. So I'll also be getting an invite to the WOTF event this summer and presumably will be paid for the publication in the anthology. Al will have one official heckler at the event. Don't have a date yet for the WOTF event -- they are looking to change the dates so they won't have to compete with WorldCon for Locus space. (grin)My story will be "A Man in the Moon", just over 14,000 words. This story first made it out in the world a month before Clarion at just under 3000 words and has grown up over the years. (double-grin)
Just five days into the new year and a sale already. Yay!
Dr. Phil
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Date: Monday, 7 January 2008 16:48 (UTC)no subject
Date: Monday, 7 January 2008 21:25 (UTC)I glanced at your blog -- and found myself (a) the subject of your newest entry (http://chris-s-owens.livejournal.com/2757.html) and (b) feeling sorry that your story didn't make it. (grin) That's the worst aspect of the WOTF, really -- for everyone who wins or is published, many someone elses don't. (double-jeopardy-grin)
Looks like you did some real detective work on your competitors for the coveted Published Finalist category. For the record, they took the longer of my two stories, 14,200 words versus 10,500 words, so for them to have taken two stories, the second would've had to fit into the spread of stories and been under 4000 words. Huh, come to think of it, my Q1 2008 story is under 3900 words. (triple-word-score-grin)
Dr. Phil
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Date: Monday, 7 January 2008 21:42 (UTC)No need to feel bad at all. That's the name of the game. And thanks for the info. More numbers to crunch!