Are you going to enter?

I'm not a sci-fi writer, yet anyway. More paranrmal in an everyday sense of the word.

Then it had to be reviewed by Publishers Weekly to get to the semifinals but they farmed out the reviews to college students and I had the bad luck to get some seat warmer who never read past the first chapter. The review was negative but otherwise incomprehensible. That was heartbreaking because I've gotten great reviews on Amazon and at Kirkus Reviews.

Stupid college kid!

Will you be submitting te same book?

Hopefully, you will win this tme!

The same book, published back in 2012. Still working on the sequel....

Exciting stuff!

What a very fine thing for him to do.

Now I just have to decide which book to enter.

Or is it like having children in that you can't decide which one is the best?

I love them all. However, I did decide on one.

It's been a while since I worked on this stuff. I think the mobi turned out better than the epub. In anyone's in need of the tools to generate the proper formats, there's a free one called "Calibre" that can be found here:
https://calibre-ebook.com/

It's what I use. It includes a very nice ePub editor.

I found some typos so far but I can fix them with the epub editor. That is a very nice tool.

Good luck to all of us.

I just finished like an hour ago. I hope we both make it to the finals and I promise not to be too upset when you win.

I'd be happy to get that far.

I used the wrong filename for the cover. It's supposed to be title - author. So I'm heading for the slush pile.

Maybe you can fix it.

It gives you a link to edit but if you try it tells you that the owner of the form has disabled editing it.

Less than an hour ago. So I'm in despite my inability to follow instructions. It will be almost a year before the winner is announced but judging on best cover ends August 14.

Now I'm trying not to think about the e-mail and what it will say.

It was sitting in my Inbox for the last few hours, and I didn't see it until now.

Congratulations! That's two DUers, at least, in the running. Best of luck!

No notes or reviews on what they didn't like so I don't know why but I suspect they just plain couldn't handle how awesome the story is. At least it's early enough that I don't have to worry about it anymore.

It must be a relief, in some ways. The stress of waiting to find out is getting to me.

FanFiAddicts announced their top 10, and inexplicably, my book isn't one of them.