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nekokami · 01-14-2007, 10:46 AM

I'm thinking about it. But you have to have a full book manuscript completed to enter, and though I have at least one ms which could be finished by March 15, I don't know if I'll have time to finish it by then (the new semester starts Tuesday, and I have a tough schedule for the next 3 months).

Contest terms aren't that great compared to a regular contract, as well. And since I write SF, my work probably wouldn't pull as wide an audience as more general fiction. That means it probably wouldn't do that well in an "American Idol" style voting contest. I'll probably wait until summer to make the next push in my writing.

01-14-2007, 10:46 AM	#4
nekokami fruminous edugeek Posts: 6,745 Karma: 551260 Join Date: Oct 2006 Location: Northeast US Device: iPad, eBw 1150	I'm thinking about it. But you have to have a full book manuscript completed to enter, and though I have at least one ms which could be finished by March 15, I don't know if I'll have time to finish it by then (the new semester starts Tuesday, and I have a tough schedule for the next 3 months). Contest terms aren't that great compared to a regular contract, as well. And since I write SF, my work probably wouldn't pull as wide an audience as more general fiction. That means it probably wouldn't do that well in an "American Idol" style voting contest. I'll probably wait until summer to make the next push in my writing.