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Title: I now have a publishing contract!
Post by: Wordmaker on April 27, 2011, 03:35:21 PM: I've been announced as the winner of a contest for a publishing contract with WiDo Publishing:

http://karenjonesgowen.blogspot.com/2011/04/w-is-for-wido-publishing-and-winner-of.html

Rock on!
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Post by: Vryce on April 27, 2011, 03:36:57 PM: Gratz! that is all sorts of Awesome sauce!
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Post by: Snowleopard on April 27, 2011, 04:50:10 PM: Congrats that is awesome.
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Post by: Magnus on April 27, 2011, 05:37:49 PM: Congratulations :)
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Post by: Wordmaker on April 27, 2011, 06:18:53 PM: Thanks everyone! I'm going to be doing a lot of online promotion as I'm based in Ireland and WiDo are in Utah, so I'll be making announcements as and when they happen!
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Post by: Vryce on April 27, 2011, 06:22:35 PM: Can we get a short little thing on what its about, i understand urban fantasy...
if i have to wait till it comes out... so be it
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Post by: Wordmaker on April 27, 2011, 06:39:01 PM: Sure!

Nathan Shepherd is a man haunted by dreams of past lives. Gifted with eidetic memory, he is drawn to patterns than others missed and finds himself obsessed with unusual occurrences and mysterious deaths. When he discovers a series of murders which have taken place over a hundred year period, he is certain they're connected. Searching for the truth, Nathan is drawn into the hidden supernatural world of New York, ruled over by a society of cruel immortals. In his quest to stop the killer once and for all, he learns more about his past and his true nature than he ever thought possible, but risks losing those closest to him along the way.
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Post by: LizW65 on April 28, 2011, 02:28:59 PM: Congratulations! Sounds very interesting--will it be ink and paper or ebook?
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Post by: Wordmaker on April 28, 2011, 02:39:43 PM: Both. It'll be availble in print and at the very least on the Kindle and the Nook.

WiDo Publishing distributes both in brick and mortar stores in the US, Canada, Australia, and the UK & Ireland, as well as online through Amazon and Barnes & Noble.
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Post by: Aludra on April 28, 2011, 03:44:20 PM: Very cool! Do you have plans to submit a Big Idea piece to Whatever.com? I suggest looking into it if you don't.

(I know I'm not the only one who looks forward to those to find new books I'd never have learned of otherwise.)
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Post by: Wordmaker on April 28, 2011, 03:47:23 PM: I haven't heard about that. What is it?
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Post by: Aludra on April 28, 2011, 04:20:40 PM: It's a post that an author writes explaining the Big Idea behind their book. It allows the author to have a dialogue with potential readers in the comments. There are rules for submitting your book to it, but I can't find the post about the rules. I beleive they're something like:

Request must be submitted by the editor/publisher.
The book must be getting released in the next x months.

This is a link to the recent peices.
http://whatever.scalzi.com/category/big-idea/ (http://whatever.scalzi.com/category/big-idea/)
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Post by: Wordmaker on April 28, 2011, 04:22:37 PM: Excellent, thanks! I'll check that out.
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Post by: Aludra on April 28, 2011, 04:29:11 PM: You're welcome and good luck!
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Post by: Vryce on April 28, 2011, 05:04:15 PM: Rading your blog on saw Dionaeahouse...
thanks for that.. great read
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Post by: RodimusGT on April 28, 2011, 05:43:16 PM: Congratulations! That is amazing! Good luck in your books, I look forward to reading them. Hopefully one day soon my story will be finished and I can start submitting it. Getting a publishing contract would be a dream come true! Congrats again dude! Awesomesauce!
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Post by: Wordmaker on April 28, 2011, 11:16:29 PM: The Dionaea House is sooo good. I love being able to introduce more people to it.

Yeah, this really is a dream come true. I can't wait to see what comes next!
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Post by: Paynesgrey on April 29, 2011, 02:14:12 PM: Grats! Good luck with the upcoming efforts!
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Post by: meg_evonne on April 30, 2011, 12:28:15 PM: Whoo hoo great news!
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Post by: Grey Knight on April 30, 2011, 10:19:12 PM: Thats great Wordmaker! Congratulations^5. It sounds great. You definitely have at least one sale on the kindle here, cant wait to read more :)
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Post by: Phid on April 30, 2011, 10:32:57 PM: Congrats!!!!!!!

chances are that I will buy it on my kindle so GK is correct. ;)
only problem with the kindle is tha I cant get the author to sign it :(
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Post by: Wordmaker on April 30, 2011, 11:19:14 PM: I'm sure I can arrange something in the way of a hard copy. :)
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Post by: boredstephanie on May 05, 2011, 05:30:46 AM: congrats =D