We are pleased to announce the winning commenters from Round One of the First Chapters Romance Writing Competition! The members below will each receive a $50 Borders gift card. We'd also like to say a big "thank you" to everyone who voted and commented during Round One - your time and effort is essential to the success of this competition, and we're looking forward to reviewing your Round Two comments!
Due to the length of many of these insightful comments, we've linked to the winning members' namespaces. Simply click on the name, and scroll down to the comments section of each winner's namespace page to read their winning comment:
Architect of Seduction, The - Marti Rae O.
Bear Country - J.C. Alexander
Beauty and the Geek - Deborah M.
Better Late than Never - sheila h.
Dancing With My Dream - Barbara L.
Dark Obsession - Sammie A.
Enchanting the Earl - Maureen K.
Fate and Destiny - Jennifer Oliver
Flow Blue - Bertha C.
General Counsel - Pat S.
Here Comes The Wedding Planner - Kristin B.
In Over Her Head - Ian M.
Kick Start - Beki Kerns Adkins
Love Spun - Lazarus B.
Painting Naked - Jennifer G.
Peace, Love and Chocolate - elizabeth e.
Safe Sex and Home Repair - Gillian N.
Scandalous Overture, A - Sylvia D.
Shadow's Kiss, A - Bethany C.
She Drives Me Crazy - Catherine Parker
Three Alarm Tenant - C A.
Tory's Heart - Aniko The Only One Here So I Don't Need a Last Name
Trust Me - Beth H.
Wolf Huntress, The - John Philipp
Your Gift To Me - Diane A.
Don't forget to keep those comments coming - we'll be giving away more Borders gift cards to the members with the most insightful comments on the winning Round Two chapters!
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I couldn't have selected a better comment on our manuscript.
Thank you!
First Chapters Romance Contest Your Gift To Me" Chapter Two
Way to go, John!
FCR Round 2: The Wolf Huntress
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-Judi In Over Her Head
Rewarding comments is a great idea because for writers these are really valuable.
I would suggest that it's easier to give links to the First Chapter entries and have people scroll down for the winning commenter's name.
If you go to my namespace, there are 106 pages of comments. I scrolled through the first 12 pages and still hadn't gotten to my winning comment. If I got bored reading my own brilliant words, I doubt anyone else made it past page two. : )
Just sayin'.
Cathy
Anyway, great work to everyone who entered the competition, and congratulations to the winners. ^_^ Can't wait to start reading Second Chapters.
Congratulations Everyone!!
To have to scroll through dozens (or hundreds) of comments, Kristen is not a realistic scenario. You can do a better job than this.
Anyway, I'm floored! When I got the "Congratulations" email today, I had no idea what it was about at first. I thought that you had to comment on all 25 winning stories in order to win, and since you couldn't possibly know which those would be, then you had to basically comment on *every* story to have a chance, so I'd discarded the whole idea of that contest in favor of just trying to write some solid thoughtful comments on a reasonable number of stories. Therefore, the surprise of this makes it that much better! Thanks so much, Kristen, and especially thanks to all the judges who spent all that time reading the comments!
p.s. I think an easier way to find the comments is to go to the STORY the comment is on (rather than the commenter's page) and do a find/search command for the commenter's name.
Please read and rate my entry:
A Scandalous Overture
Congratulations For winning for your thoughtful and insightful comment on my entry Jennifer!
Fate and Destiny - Chapter 2
Seriously,thank you.
There's something wrong about this seeming right...winning a prize for reading( which I adore) and commenting on the written work of the future great authors......
Somebody pinch me.
Again ,my thanks to all.