Ah Well, It Didn't Cost Me Anything

[dr_phil_physics]

War of the Words Short List

The novel I sent to the UK first novel contest apparently didn't make the short list. C'est la vie.

They actually posted the short list back on Tuesday 8 September 2009, the day after they were going to make contact to the authors. I wasn't sure they were sticking to the schedule, since they'd mentioned they got a lot of entries and then on Friday 4 September 2009 said they were going to expand the short list from I think six to ten authors. But, sigh, I hadn't heard from them and so remembered to go looking on the SciFi Now U.K. site.

Ah well. Nice thing is that I have this novel, which I'll look over one more time, then I'll start sending it out again.

It's all good. (grin)

Dr. Phil

Comments

[aloysius7.livejournal.com]

Sorry it didn't make the short list, but best of luck when you send it out again.

[dr-phil-physics.livejournal.com]

I'm certainly not broken up about it. After all, a little while ago there was some controversy over in the U.K. where a columnist was crowing about the excellent state of British SF and comparing it to, what he claimed was, the weaker American SF, with its space opera battles against aliens. So, given that my novel was hard military SF, I figured the odds were low to begin with. (grin)

Dr. Phil