Please send our First Chapters Writing Competition Grand Prize Winner Terry Shaw your heartfelt congratulations by publishing a comment below. Your Gather username will be included in the published book! Let the well-wishing begin…
Great job Terry! I look forward to getting a copy of The Way Life Should Be when it comes out. The First Chapters contest is how I was introduced to Gather.com....what a great community!
Terry, Congrats!! I knew that you would win.......could feel it in my old bones! I can't wait to get my signed 1st edition!! I am so very proud of you. You are finally getting the recognition that you have always deserved. Deb H
I felt good about your book from the point when I read the first chapter a couple of months back. Your hard work has been rewarded. Congratulations! I look forward to buying the published book.
Congrats, Terry! I can imagine the thrill you'll have in September when you walk into that bookstore and see your book on the shelf. I'm very happy to have been a part of the first First Chapters contest with you. Best of luck for more sales!
-Judi Top 20 Finalist, Beauty and The Best www.JudiFennell.com
You've worked hard, endured the critics, and it has paid off in the best possible way. I'm proud to have been a contestant and semi-finalist alongside you and hope one day our books share a shelf alongside one another as well.
Until then, best wishes for your continued success.
Eric D. Goodman Top 20 Semi-Finalist, TRACKS www.Train-Tracks.blogspot.com
Great Job Terry. I was hooked on the book from the begginning. I can't wait till it hits the bookshelves. I'm glad that we at gather could open this new and exciting door for you. As an avid reader , I feel proud that my support helped get your wonderful book published. WAY TO GO !
I can't wait for the day when I walk into my local Borders and see your book there. Thanks to Simon & Schuster, Borders, and Gather for organizing this great event. With all the really great writing in the First Chapters contest, you should know that your achievement was more than many authors would ever have to face. Gather is filled with great book lovers, and your win is testament to your skill in the face of strong competition. I hope your victory is sweet. It's certainly well deserved.
Congratulations, Terry. I am really looking forward to reading the rest of "The Way Life Should Be" if you change the title you'd better darn well let us know! I really want to know 'who done it'!
This is awesome, and very much deserved. Congratulations!! Don't forget us little people when you become the next John Grisham!! I hope you have a second book in you.
I'll be watching for your national tour to come to Tonawanda.
Fantastic! I'm so happy I read it before you won so I would know that the winning is truly deserved, which it is. I'm thrilled for your Terry. I'm sure this will only be the beginnig of a fun, wild ride!
So Terry Shaw you're an author and a novelist! How exciting! We need confetti and champagne smilies here. I can't even begin to imagine how you must be feeling right now although I hope to some day be feeling the same way. Anyway, Congratulations! I hope it is just the beginning of a long and successful writing career.
Terry, Congrats connection I had no idea that you were even entered in the competition and you turn out to be the winner. Bless you Sweetie I hope your book sells off the shelves. And they have to print it a second and third time and you become as rich and famous as that Harry Potter girl.
Terry, It has been great to see so many real writers on Gather.com. Congratulations on having your work recognized and rewarded. If you or any of the other finalists and semi-finalists are ever in my neck-of-the-woods, stop by for a cup of my homegrown herbal tea, a walk in the garden and a chat. Keep up the good work ! Diana Diana's Vintage & Gift Shop in Hubbard, Ohio
Woooooooooo hoooooooooooooo!!!! If I'm not mistaken, I think I can hear you doing the celebration jig all the way here in Philly! Congrats! Now, com'on -- let us know when the book comes out (and Border BEST carry it LOL) Definitely want to buy it on its first edition, and you got to sign mine (in person, if you're doing autograph signings in Philly some day!) Got to find out, not only WhoDunIt, but how everyone carries on without him!
So cool! Congratulations! Glad you didn't take to heart that whole "first books rarely get published!"
Terry - I read Chapter 3 at your request just days after joining Gather! I'm hooked...on your booK and on Gather. I can't wait to read the whole book. Congratulations!
Your manuscript is very well-written and suspenseful. It's great to know I'll be able to read the entire story soon, and find out how what happens. Congratulations!
Congrats on your success, Terry!! I was impressed with your first 3 chapters. I'm looking forward to adding your novel to my home library in September! ;-)
A huge CONGRATULATIONS from Wild and Wonderful West Virginia! You know I loved your story from the start! I am SO looking forward to going to the mall, and casualing mentioning that I know the author, when I buy your book, as soon as it comes out! Enjoy, enjoy! You deserve it! Marsha F.
Terry I told ya you could do it! All that work finally paid off for you. I expect a signed copy of this when it comes out. An if you get famous from this you better come back to Knoxville and go to fancy japanese with me.
Congratulations! I'll certainly be buying a copy! When the book is published, it would be neat if you'd consider writing an article about your experiences in writing The Way Life Should Be and working with your editor.
CONGRATULATIONS, TERRY!. I knew when I read your chapters that this was a wonderful story and the results prove that. From one published author to another, best of luck with all your future work.
Terry, Congratulations! I'm waiting patiently 'til the day your book is out in the bookstores. I expect nothing less than a purely entertaining experience when I read it. ~ J ~
Hi Terry, Your tenacity has paid off-congradulations are certainly in order. The only thing I need to know now is "where is the party?" On a more serious note, the empathy you display for your fellow human being is a quality that I hope you never lose. Many thanks, Bob Cornell
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Best of luck. I look forward to unraveling the mysteries that your first few chapters have produced!
Congrats. I might be the one person who knows how you feel right now! Look forward to talking to you more in the future.
All the best,
Jeff Edwards
Congrats!! I knew that you would win.......could feel it in my old bones! I can't wait to get my signed 1st edition!! I am so very proud of you. You are finally getting the recognition that you have always deserved.
Deb H
Congratulations. This is a great honor and a wonderful accomplishment. I look forward to read the book entirely.
I felt good about your book from the point when I read the first chapter a couple of months back. Your hard work has been rewarded. Congratulations! I look forward to buying the published book.
Good job and good luck. It had to a tough row to hoe. I wish you all the best.
-Judi
Top 20 Finalist, Beauty and The Best
www.JudiFennell.com
You've worked hard, endured the critics, and it has paid off in the best possible way. I'm proud to have been a contestant and semi-finalist alongside you and hope one day our books share a shelf alongside one another as well.
Until then, best wishes for your continued success.
Eric D. Goodman
Top 20 Semi-Finalist, TRACKS
www.Train-Tracks.blogspot.com
Congratulations! I can't wait to pick up my copy of your first novel. I'll look forward to your first book signing!
Tom M
Christine
best regards, gayle in WA state
This is awesome, and very much deserved. Congratulations!! Don't forget us little people when you become the next John Grisham!! I hope you have a second book in you.
I'll be watching for your national tour to come to Tonawanda.
Steve
CONGRATULATIONS! Can't wait for the whole edition.
Congrats connection I had no idea that you were even entered in the competition and you turn out to be the winner. Bless you Sweetie I hope your book sells off the shelves. And they have to print it a second and third time and you become as rich and famous as that Harry Potter girl.
It has been great to see so many real writers on Gather.com.
Congratulations on having your work recognized and rewarded.
If you or any of the other finalists and semi-finalists are ever in my neck-of-the-woods, stop by for a cup of my homegrown herbal tea, a walk in the garden and a chat.
Keep up the good work !
Diana
Diana's Vintage & Gift Shop in Hubbard, Ohio
So cool! Congratulations! Glad you didn't take to heart that whole "first books rarely get published!"
All my best,
May this format continue to inspire all writers.
Your manuscript is very well-written and suspenseful. It's great to know I'll be able to read the entire story soon, and find out how what happens. Congratulations!
Cathy
May your book leave the shelves like milk and bread before a Nor'easter.
Thom, Karen, Quinn, Ian, and Colin
I am SO looking forward to going to the mall, and casualing mentioning that I know the author, when I buy your book, as soon as it comes out!
Enjoy, enjoy! You deserve it!
Marsha F.
Best,
Elena
Great job!
Your tenacity has paid off-congradulations are certainly in order. The only thing I need to know now is "where is the party?"
On a more serious note, the empathy you display for your fellow human being is a quality that I hope you never lose.
Many thanks,
Bob Cornell