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| April_Rose |
Turner Maxwell Books Short Story competitionhttp://www.turnermaxwellbooks.com/Comp.htmFree entry 5000 words max No theme restrictions Email entry Publishing contract worth £1000 and free marketing for a year...might be worth entering! |
| Em_J |
Cool, yeah that sounds good! |
| April_Rose |
I figure anything with free entry is worth a go! 
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| Em_J |
Definitely. Think I'll try and write something new. Not feeling very inspired at the mo though! |
| April_Rose |
hey Em, what did you put in the entry email, they aren't very specific regarding guidelines - did you put your name and contact details in the attachment with the story itself or just in the body of the email? |
| Em_J |
Just in the email. All I put in the attachment was my name under the title of the story. Yeah I didn't think they were very specific with that! |
| April_Rose |
Yeah, sometimes you're told not to put the name on the story and sometimes you're supposed to, I don't want to be disqualified for dong it wrong!
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| Em_J |
Yeah, I'm just looking at the email I sent and all I've put in the email is 'I have attached my entry for the short story competition' then I put the word count and my name, I didn't actually put any contact details, were we meant to?! Oops! |
| April_Rose |
I don't know, I usually put my name and address and a phone number in the email, though if it's email entry it makes sense for them to email the results I think... |
| Em_J |
Ah well, I didn't get an email back saying it was wrong! There's no rules really on their site, it just says attach to an email. |
| April_Rose |
Yeah, that's true, if they don't state a rule we can't break it! I sent it off anyway, so fingers crossed for both of us! |
| Em_J |
Yep!  We have to wait til January though!
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| April_Rose |
That's not too bad, if we'd entered ages ago it would have been a longer wait! |
| Em_J |
That's true!
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| Em_J |
Have you heard from these yet, AR? I had an email today. Apparently I made it to the final (which is cool) but didn't win. Though they then said they're interested to see if I have anything over 50000 words. |
| April_Rose |
I got the same message! Was a really nice, encouraging email I thought, that helps!
You should send them your book, see what they could do with it? Mine's not ready yet, I could throw together a collection of short stories but I don't think that's what they're looking for. |
| Em_J |
Yeah I might send it to them.
Maybe everybody who didn't win got the same message?!
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| April_Rose |
Maybe! But still, it was nice! Didn't put me in the same bad mood rejection letters usually do!
Yeah I'd say send it and see if they can help, if they can't you haven't lost anything but if they can get you some more marketing or something it can't hurt! |
| Em_J |
Yeah it was a nice email! I did wonder if you'd get the same one though.
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| April_Rose |
Yeah I logged on here straight away as soon as I checked my emails today, to see if you'd heard anything! |
| Em_J |
Yeah that's exactly what I did! |
| Em_J |
All the winners and whatnot are up now. Loads of entries by the sounds of it! |
| April_Rose |
Yeah, I might get the book for my birthday or something, have a look at the winning stories! |