Category Archives: Contest

The ONLY Time I Listen to Music While Working

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It’s the most wonderful time of the year!

Fill the air with the scent of cinnamon, nutmeg, clove and cough drops! Clutter the house with yule knick-knacks, holly, ribbons and red noses! Listen to the carols and choirs, and the neighbors complaining about the caroling choirs in the street!

Ah, December. Who can work in the midst of all that wonderfulness? But if you can, here’s a holiday writing opportunity for you:

The Spinetinglers Christmas Ghost Story Competition is accepting your creepy, spooky yule tales until midnight, December 18th. You can snag a bit of Fame and Fortune from the Brits, who for reasons only they can explain, love ghost stories at Christmas! Check out the details here for this no-entry fee contest!

And here’s a wonderful opportunity for you to start the season of giving with a gift that will help a fellow writer:

It’s the Season of Love and Hope Auction to benefit Bridget Zinn, who’s working hard to kick cancer. Tons of writers and friends have donated books, critiques, and other gifts to raise money for this young, YA author. Why not make a bid and make her day shine a little brighter? But hurry! The auction closes on December 4th!

I’m off to the auction myself, just as soon as I finish belting out “Love on Layaway.” I don’t want to brag, but it’s kinda hard to tell the difference. Is it me or Gloria Estefan singing?

Are You on the Prowl for a Place to Publish?

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I am such a sucker for alliteration. I’m also a sucker for short fiction and getting my stories published in fun anthologies. Maybe you are, too. So why don’t you write something for A Shaker of Margaritas: Cougars on the Prowl?

Mozark Press has just released A Shaker of Margaritas: Hot Flash Mommas, but apparently the editor’s hungry for more stories of romance, mystery, suspense, humor, well, any genre, really, as long as it’s set in modern times and has a “woman of a certain age” prowling about. And FYI: that age is a Baby Boomer, born between 1946 and 1964.

Start writing your 1,000 to 3,000 word story now and you’ll be ready to submit when January 1st rolls around. And you know, you don’t have to be a cougar to write about ’em. But why let your characters have all the fun?

(Find more info about the contest and compensation here.)