We apologize for the roller-coaster of emotions this type of an event can cause, but happy that we can try and make it up to you.
A thing about contests, they're a great way to get to know your fellow writers, get critiques, break out of an agent's slush pile, and develop a tough skin for the rocky road of publishing ahead of you. It's how many of the coaches for The Writer's Voice developed their skills. And all of us are now agented. We do this, because we love this community, and we want all of you to succeed at your writing goals.
With that said, at 12 PM EDT (noon) we will reopen the widget and accept 25 more entries into the contest. Please come back tomorrow (4th) and sign up on the widget in the new submission post.
Way to go, coaches! Good luck to everyone tomorrow :-)
ReplyDeleteThis is very generous of you all :) Thank you for opening more entries, and good luck to everyone who's submitting tomorrow!
ReplyDeleteUm, do extra entries (fifty all up from the previous count) mean you four will be choosing more people or is it still just forty all up to be there for the final stab at the agents?
ReplyDeleteSneaky tech gremlins, I tell you!! That's actually really sweet of you to open up extra slots! Good luck everyone!
ReplyDeletethats very nice of you! technology is a goddess, performing at her whim and amusing herself at our expense. my expectations are realistically set now =)
ReplyDeleteWow! Thanks for giving us a bonus chance to enter! I feel like a ninny that I couldn't even manage to load the entry page last night! Hopefully I'll at least manage to SEE the widget today. :)
ReplyDeleteThat is good of all you guys to open the window again. It was super stressful last night when I was poised, ready for the 9:00, and it came and...no linky! I did keep refreshing (and shaking and whining) because I had tried in the AM and wasn't fast enough.
ReplyDeleteI even switched from Krista's blog to yours a little after nine because I couldn't get anything to work, and it still took a few seconds.
But I DID make it in at #147 and and am very pleased about that.
Thanks for doing this contest. We really appreciate it!
btw My name doesn't really start with http// ;)
Thank you for this!
ReplyDeleteyou are going above and beyond. Thank you.
ReplyDeleteNow you're just toying with us, aren't you? :) Third try's a charm, perhaps.
ReplyDeleteWell, apparently it was. :D
DeleteThanks so much Cupid. You guys rock! Now here's to fast fingers. ;0)
ReplyDeleteAwww! My nerves!
ReplyDeleteI sincerely hope that everyone knows what you all are doing is out of the kindness of your hearts, because you care about good writing and great books. Having been a co-host of the A to Z blogfest (a linky list with 2000 entrants, before we removed spam) I know how difficult this can be. So I just wanted to say: THANK YOU!
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