In Memory of Alexandria (ePub)
An original short story by L.J. McDonald.
When a mother goes in search of a rare book for her son's birthday, she finds far more than she would have expected in a tiny little bookstore.
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An original short story by L.J. McDonald.
When a mother goes in search of a rare book for her son's birthday, she finds far more than she would have expected in a tiny little bookstore.
I did make some attempts to get published over the years, and almost made it at one point, but other things were on my mind. To me, not submitting was easier than dealing with rejection slips, so I stopped trying. I did still keep on writing though. It's true that for writers, it's a compulsion. I just never considered the idea that anyone other than my husband would want to read any of it.
That changed when I picked up a book titled Moongazer by Marianne Mancusi. It had an ad in it for the Shomi Romantic Fantasy Novel Writing Contest, where the winner would get a guaranteed publishing contract in Canada and the United States. I mentioned it to my husband and he nagged me until I entered the first three chapters of The Battle Sylph in March of 2008. Sometime after that, I was wandering the Shomi site and found a link to a page detailing what features the judges were looking for. Other than my book being fantasy, I hadn't done a single thing on the list and figured I must have lost. My husband said, okay, wait for them to confirm that, then ship it out to the next company. You're not hiding for the next twenty years this time.
So, time passed, and the contest closed. The day after the winner was chosen, I was emailed by someone at Shomi who did confirm that, yes, I'd lost the contest, but the head Editor liked my three chapters so much he
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- Autor: Lj McDonald
- 2015, Englisch
- Verlag: LJ McDonald
- ISBN-10: 1311981101
- ISBN-13: 9781311981103
- Erscheinungsdatum: 05.11.2015
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