Jodi and I finished ahead of schedule! The 25 winners will be notified THIS MONDAY, November 7, instead of a week later as originally announced.
I will send the emails from facelesswords(at)gmail.com. Please be sure I'm in your address book NOW. If you don't receive an email from me on Monday, it means your entry was not selected as one of the 25 winners.
Thank you ALL for giving us the privilege of reading your work. Jodi and I don't take this lightly. (Well, okay. We do have FUN. But we take the slush part seriously.)
WOW!! Well done!
ReplyDeleteThe both of you are awesome! Thanks for your hard work. :)
ReplyDeleteBOOM goes the dynamite! Good job, ladies. That's called efficiency.
ReplyDelete:o)
Yeesh, are you ladies ever impressive!
ReplyDeleteYay! You guys are awesome! And what a great opportunity this is. Thank you!
ReplyDelete(Yes, I do actually talk with that many exclamation points.)
One last question - so are all these entries going into the bot for a lottery? I think I'm confused about that last point.
ReplyDeleteEek, so exciting! I will be biting my nails on Monday! :)
ReplyDelete@macaronipants: As far as I understood, for the Baker's Dozen, Jodie and Authoress preselect the entries like in a real agency. The 25 they think are best will go to auction. The raffle system is only for the Secret Agent rounds.
ReplyDeleteCat is right. There is no lottery involved. Jodi and I are reading each entry as though it were a submission to an agency.
ReplyDeleteCongrats on getting done ahead of what you'd planned. I should think it'll help towards easing the load for the YA/MG portion.
ReplyDeleteAnd ease some stomachs a week earlier, no doubt. ^_^
Ahhh! I don't need to fast-forward time now! Thanks. ;)
ReplyDeleteAuthoress, you and Jodi rock. I know the amount of work you put in on the slush reading, and I'm grateful to have been a part of it. Getting the news a week in advance helps my timetables, too.
ReplyDeleteWow - nauseous and excited all at once. Jodi and Authoress, thank you so much for all your hard work!
ReplyDeleteAha! Now it makes sense. Don't know how I missed that part. Thanks Cat and Authoress.
ReplyDeleteOh! Thank you for reading through the entries and keeping the 25 spots even though it didn't fill up.
ReplyDeleteI'll breathe in four days, whether I make it or not ...
The color of your blog is milk chocolate and dark chocolate. You deserve both!
How can some of your followers help you out or make another sister site for adult genres? I would be happy to help you ...
Wow! Thanks so much for your hard work and this opportunity!
ReplyDeleteI thought of a question as I imagined checking my email all day on Monday.
ReplyDeleteWill the emails be sent out at one time at 9:00am EST and not throughout the day?
(I am the type to refuse defeat until 5:00pm)haha
I am deeply grateful for this opportunity you have designed!
Brigitte -- I will send them as early-in-the-morning Eastern Standard Time as I can. Definitely by 10:00 am EST.
ReplyDeleteAuthoress - you are so wonderful. I send you a delectable slice of virtual flourless bittersweet chocolate cake,layered with a thick slab of dark chocolate truffle, underneath a bounding heap of milk chocolate mousse, all hidden under a silken skirt of ganuache.
ReplyDeleteHope it was yummy!