Christmas Writing Challenge - Opportunity to be Published and PAID for Your Writing!

NOTE: as of 12-8-07 submissions are closed for this publisher.  Check the link, though, they may open again soon.

Christmas group member Cindy G. announced recently that her novella, The Spirit of Christmas, will be published by By Grace Publishing.  This is a Christian publisher of e-books and print books, and it turns out they are still looking for Christmas themed novels, novellas or short stories.  So, I challenge you to post an entry that meets their requirements for the Christmas theme entries, and post it to the Christmas group.  Members will give you critical feedback and then you can enter it to By grace Publishing for consideration.  You can let us know about your responses and seek advice from others in the process.  

A few things to keep in mind:

• Post only to groups and contacts, not to everyone.  This will help protect your copyright.  Works posted to all of Gather lose their First North American Serial Rights (for more information on this topic, check out How will publishing on Gather affect my chances of publishing elsewhere?)
• Make sure you read through the Submission Guidelines for By Grace Publishing, and follow their requirements exactly.
• Tag your entry to the group "Christmas Challenge" - members can use this tag to see all the entries participating and easily be able to read and help you with your submission.

It may be a little early to be thinking Christmas - but if you can get published for writing about Christmas, I'd say it is the perfect time!  If you have any questions or suggestions, please comment below.  Have fun and good luck!