As with last year, Publisher's Choice winners were selected based on originality, how well it captured the spirit of the season, and how close it was to publication quality. I will make comments on each of these stories during this week, giving you my opinion on what was done well and what needed a little more polish. If you're not a winner and you'd like to take credit for your story, you may do so in the comments section.
Readers Choice Published Author Category: Christmas Story #9—Too Old for Santa by Janice Sperry
Publisher's Choice Published Author Category: Christmas Story #21—A Real Baby in the Manger by Christine Thackeray
Readers Choice Unpublished Author Category: Christmas Story #11—A Lesson for Sylvester by Lori Labrum
It was hard for me to select a winner in the Unpublished Author category. In my opinion, while many of them were very close, none of them were quite ready for publication. All would need a little more tweaking. There were four that I felt had a lot of potential: #4 Cricket's Gift, #7 The Choir Practice, #10 Untitled (The Animals Knew) and #13 Santa's Gift Card. But I could only choose one as a winner. . .
Publisher's Choice Unpublished Author Category:
Christmas Story #10—Untitled (The Animals Knew) by Rachel Jensen
Winners, please send me an e-mail with your mailing address ASAP.
And thanks again to the Christmas Story Contest Sponsors.
3 comments:
Congratulations, Janice, Christine, Lori, and Rachel!
I just want to say what a great idea this Christmas story contest was! I didn't win, and to be honest, I didn't expect to, but it gave me a writing goal that I sorely needed--write something and submit it, no matter how small--and for that, I'm very grateful. Thank you, LDSP, for the little push I needed to keep working on my writing skills, even over the busy holiday season!
Congratulations, winners! Sound like great stories.
By the way, there's a new book contest running on my blog today, in case you're interested. It's a good one :-)
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