RJ Frith has won the War of the Words novel-writing competition with The Nemesis List. The competition was organised by publisher Tor UK and Sci Fi Now magazine, and attracted a high number and standard of entries.
My warmest congratulations to RJ Frith for this significant win. It's richly deserved, and I hope it will be the first of many. I look forward to buying The Nemesis List as soon as it's published: and I cannot stress enough how very pleased I am about this!
Showing posts with label competitions. Show all posts
Showing posts with label competitions. Show all posts
Wednesday, 25 November 2009
Tuesday, 3 March 2009
Short Story Competition
The literary magazine The Yellow Room has today published a plea for more entries to its forthcoming short story competition, which closes on 20 March.
The Yellow Room is Jo Derrick's latest project: she also founded the literary magazines QWF and Cadenza. I was lucky enough to be awarded prizes by both of those titles (you can read the story which won the QWF prize here, and the Cadenza prize-winning one here), and the experience was very positive: not only was the prize-money very welcome, the exposure brought me into contact with many new writers and readers who I would not otherwise have reached.
Go and write something for The Yellow Room prize. Do it now. You have nearly three weeks to get your entries in.
The Yellow Room is Jo Derrick's latest project: she also founded the literary magazines QWF and Cadenza. I was lucky enough to be awarded prizes by both of those titles (you can read the story which won the QWF prize here, and the Cadenza prize-winning one here), and the experience was very positive: not only was the prize-money very welcome, the exposure brought me into contact with many new writers and readers who I would not otherwise have reached.
Go and write something for The Yellow Room prize. Do it now. You have nearly three weeks to get your entries in.
Thursday, 8 January 2009
Competitions And Anthologies
There's a failsafe way to make money out of writers.
Run a short story or poetry competition, and attract as many entries as you can: the internet makes it easy to find writers' groups and message boards where you can advertise your competitions for free. You don't even have to charge an entry fee (although you can if you think they'll pay): just get those entries in, as quickly as you can.
You don't need to read the entries: it's quantity you want here, not quality. Just bundle all of them altogether into a single anthology, stick an ISBN onto the cover, and download it to a POD provider. And that's all your editing and production work done.
The marketing on this project is very easy too: all you have to do is tell all the entrants that they've won a place in the competition, and that their work will appear in your prizewinners’ anthology.
Add the anthology to Amazon, and you're away. Make sure you price it qute high, to maximise your return; then wait for the orders to come in. Chances are that most of the people who are included in the anthology will buy themselves at least one copy; probably more. And each copy that's bought brings in more cash for you, for very little effort.
As I said, it's a failsafe way to make money out of writers. It's just not a very nice one.
Run a short story or poetry competition, and attract as many entries as you can: the internet makes it easy to find writers' groups and message boards where you can advertise your competitions for free. You don't even have to charge an entry fee (although you can if you think they'll pay): just get those entries in, as quickly as you can.
You don't need to read the entries: it's quantity you want here, not quality. Just bundle all of them altogether into a single anthology, stick an ISBN onto the cover, and download it to a POD provider. And that's all your editing and production work done.
The marketing on this project is very easy too: all you have to do is tell all the entrants that they've won a place in the competition, and that their work will appear in your prizewinners’ anthology.
Add the anthology to Amazon, and you're away. Make sure you price it qute high, to maximise your return; then wait for the orders to come in. Chances are that most of the people who are included in the anthology will buy themselves at least one copy; probably more. And each copy that's bought brings in more cash for you, for very little effort.
As I said, it's a failsafe way to make money out of writers. It's just not a very nice one.
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