Would-be novelists have until late August to submit manuscripts to romancenovel@gatherinc.com, and Gather.com members will have a say in selecting the winner, the company said.
Some of you will recall that Gather.com launched a similar competition earlier this year that resulted in a mystery writer winning a contract.
In this case, I doubt they will get anything like the kind of substantial and repeat participation that Harlequin gets from their eharlequin.com site. More on this next week.
Well, the Gather.com "American Idol" for writers was a bust. Literally thousands of people left, it was so poorly run (cheating, allowed vote saturation, etc.)
ReplyDeleteJust look at this:
http://www.gather.com/viewArticle.jsp?articleId=281474976963410
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