Well hi there!
Maybe you were expecting to see the Twinners and lottery winners here.
Frankly, so was I. But I am still deliberating and narrowing down the Twinners, and I have to do that before I can announce the lottery winners.
One of the issues was how many entries I had to disqualify, both from the Twinner nominees and the lottery winners.
Now, submission guidelines are not new for writers.
But I know that some of the #pg70pit rules are quirky and/or complicated. They were for the following reasons:
- For you to have fun with the contest
- To help make things easier on contest judges
- To narrow down the list of entries for us, since narrowing it down ourselves to just a few is so difficult!
Still, so many entries that won the lottery—even ones that were our top picks for Twitter winners!—were disqualified this year that I wanted to take a look at the rules and get your feedback on them.
The whole reason of doing #pg70pit is to amplify voices that might be missing out from other contests. (You know the ones—they have a different focus than pg70pit, and they are very successful! But not all manuscripts are made to fare well in those types of contests.)
Can you respond to the following survey to give me some feedback and improve the contest for everyone involved?
In the meantime, I’ll be figuring out the Twinners to post here ASAP.
However, as much as writers love to hear what worked, it’s just as important to know what didn’t. Even in the pages I voted for, there was room for improvement. I’ll run through a list of recurring issues that popped up in the entries, but first a word about editors. Now I’m not an editor, I don’t work for an editor, and I’m not endorsing any particular editorial service. However, I have most certainly benefitted from having a thorough…
Lara Willard 