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Mystery: June 28, 2006 Issue [#1116]

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3. Letter from the Editor
4. Editor's Picks
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6. Ask & Answer
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About This Newsletter

It is hard to motivate myself to write during the dog days of summer. Hmm, money and publication may be a great motivation! Or a merit badge and meaningful reviews! Contests may be the answer.


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One of the best ways to hone your mystery writing skills is to enter a contest. Writing.Com offers contests throughout the year. I always check the contest listing page Writing Contests @ Writing.Com Open in new Window. each week to see if there are any contests I may want to enter.

Perusing the lists today I don’t see any mystery contests being offered at this time (hint hint contest hosts!) but I see a couple of contests I could enter a mystery story to.

Next I look at my writing magazines. They list contests with links to web sites and/or addresses of the contest hosts so I can read more about the individual contest and about the rules. I stay away from contests that have huge entry fees, paltry awards, or ones that require me to buy a compilation of all the entrees.

Today I found The Best Private Eye Novel Contest which is offering an annual contest for unpublished, book-length stories in the private eye genre. The contest is open only to writers who are not published in the mystery novel genre. The deadline is July 1, 2006 (so get going mystery writers!) with a prize of $10,000 advance against future royalties and publication with St. Martin’s Minotaur press. You could write to Toni Plummer, Private Eye Writers of America, 175 Fifth Ave., NY, NY, 11215 for more info. Here is the web site: http://www.minotaurbooks.com/contests.html#privateeye. You will see a link for another mystery contest hosted by the same company on this site which is closed. You could start to think of a story for that contest for next year, since it is an annual contest!

Writer’s Digest is hosting their annual short story contest which you could enter in the category of Mystery/Crime fiction. This contest ends on 11/1/06 and stories must be 4,000 words or less. You can read about the contest at http://www.writersdigest.com/contests/popfiction.

The internet can be a source of contest listings but be careful to avoid contests that prey on enthusiastic beginner writers. Read this insightful article on contests: http://www.sfwa.org/beware/contests.html.

If only I had a mystery story to send now that I know what contests I could enter!*Smile*



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Ask & Answer

schipperke's Reader Comments and Questions


ftrinta:I've loved this newsletter about Agatha Christie's disapearance. I like her books but never heard that this fact had happened in her life. Thanks for this brilliant mystery from a brilliant writer.
By the way: I think she was doing all the 2 things: revenge on her husband and creating a mystery of her own ...
Thank you for your kind comments! I agree, I think she was getting back at her playboy husband.


Nighala a.k.a. Doxie Do-Right Author Icon:Why didn't Dame Christie just say "I vant to be alone?" I wonder. Hmmm.
Probably because she didn't want to be alone. Her mother had just died, and now her husband is out tomcatting around!


April Sunday Author Icon:Hey S! Speaking of the never mentioned comment. Jackie Kennedy never made a comment about The Warren Report, another famous mystery.
Sometimes what people don't say says more than what they do talk about!

DB Cooper Author Icon:I don't have a favorite detective show ,but my favorite crime show was Profiler with Ally Walker as Sam.
I think I caught a couple of episodes of the show and it was interesting.

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