Contest: submit first 150-200 words of a fantasy/sci-fi novel

[nuxvomica]

The blog "Guide to Literary Agents" is holding a "Dear Lucky Agent" contest, with a May 26 deadline, for unpublished fantasy/sci-fi novels. All you have to do is submit the first 150-200 words of your unpublished fantasy or sc-fi novel and link to the contest via social networking or a blog. The top three winning entries will get a literary agent's critique of the first 10 pages of the novel and a 1 year sub to www.writersmarket.com.
Details here...
http://www.guidetoliteraryagents.com/blog/Dear+Lucky+Agent+Contest+Fantasy+And+SciFi.aspx

edit: subscription info was wrong

[jotsy]

1. Would love to see folks post entries for this here too.

Just for the sake of seeing some regular activity here. DU is full of writers, but the level of activity is nowhere near comparable to the volume of interaction seen in other forums.

[nuxvomica]

2. I probably won't ever post any part of my novel here

Because the basic idea is rather unique and I'm afraid of it getting stolen. I'm even a little cautious of the contest I posted and so I haven't even submitted to that yet.
That may be one reason why other folks don't post a lot. But some if it may be that we haven't achieved a critical mass of activity in this forum.

[SheilaT]

3. While I respect your

feelings, I suspect that if the basic idea is rather unique, no one else would really be able to do with it what you're doing with it. But I do hope you get published and we all get to read it.

Too many books, whatever the genre, are just formulaic, and I love reading more original stuff.

[nuxvomica]

4. It may be so unique, in fact, that it's not very interesting

:)
I've finally sent all the chapters to my sister to read so I can get someone else's take on it. She read the first two chapters and has been pestering me for the third so I just sent her the whole thing. I really need someone else to look at it at this point. It's definitely either awesome or terrible, and nothing in-between.

[nuxvomica]

5. For the record, I did not win

I figure my submission email got lost somewhow. ;-)

[jotsy]

6. Your resilience is a winning attitude.

Much more useful, IMHO.