To keep myself from losing track of:
all the contests I've entered,
all the contests I've volunteered myself as a judge (or let myself be voluntold into judging),
all the books I've had to read as a contestant or as a judge,
all the deadlines,
a...
Oops! This image does not follow our content guidelines. To continue publishing, please remove it or upload a different image.
The host said all "three" of my books were accepted, but I entered four: Ancilla, Wild Is the Wind: The Art of Ancilla, Excavations, and Morsels: Tales of Love and Passion.
I don't know if that means the host counted incorrectly, or if one of the books was not accepted. FWIW, there is a message near the end of the book that says "Everyone's accepted and I'm insanely busy" (or something like that) which I can certainly sympathize with!
(Grammarly keeps changing a word starting with "m" to discount. Grammarly is stupid, and I am seriously considering removing it from my embedded apps. At least Microsoft's spell checker only nags. Grammarly enforces via autocorrect. Control freak that I am, I hate that).
Here are the categories I think I might be competing in:
Ancilla - Romance, Most Unique Supernatural Power (my vampires have element-bending kisses!), Best Love Triangle
Morsels: Tales of Love and Passion - Short Story Anthology
Excavations - Poetry
Wild Is the Wind: The Art of Ancilla - Best Cover
UPDATE (1/1/25)
Ancilla got Second Place in Romance.
Excavations won First Place in Poetry and beat the book May Garner had entered. That last part is astonishing. May Garner is a professional published poet and has tens of thousands of followers on Wattpad. She is a Wattpad celebrity. Beating her in a competition is like beating Rupi Kaur.
Maybe I'm not as mediocre as I think I am.
Oops! This image does not follow our content guidelines. To continue publishing, please remove it or upload a different image.
UPDATE (3/10/2025)
The prize graphics are starting to be handed out.
Still gleeful that I managed to do better than May Garner in a poetry contest. She only has TWENTY-NINE THOUSAND FOLLOWERS and sells enough of her poetry on Amazon to make an actual profit from it.
She's an influencer.
The only thing lacking is that magic orange ✓
But I managed to beat her in a contest despite that.
Yay me.
I'll remind myself of that every time I look at the spreadsheet of royalties earned on my work versus money spent on ISBNs, marketing, and other things required of authors when they go pro with their work. I don't want to think about how in the hole I am, financially. I'll start crying.
Oops! This image does not follow our content guidelines. To continue publishing, please remove it or upload a different image.
Oops! This image does not follow our content guidelines. To continue publishing, please remove it or upload a different image.
