WRiTE CLUB
2014
Preliminary Rounds
Round 1 - Little Darlin vs Lord Codpiece / Winner - Lord Codpiece
Round 2 - NotAnna vs Swick / Winner - Swick
Round 3 - Sophie Grace vs Dreamer / Winner - Dreamer
Round 4 - Anna MacKenzie vs Nanato4 / Winner - Nanato4
Round 5 - Bartholomew Boulstridge Bell vs Fitzwilliam / Winner - Fitzwilliam
Round 6 - Imladris vs Bug Written / Winner - Imladris
Round 7 - Pixie Moon vs Miss Drake / Winner - Miss Drake
Round 8 - Cocktail Lion vs Petrichor / Winner - Petrichor
Round 9 - Salome vs Sapphire Eyes / Winner - Sapphire Eyes
Round 10 - Crux vs Huntress / Winner - Huntress
Round 11 - Dame Hortense Pemberton vs Hingle McKringleberry / Winner - Dame Hortense Pemberton
Round 12 - Octavia Worldsend vs The Baron / Winner - The Baron
Round 13 - BellaD vs ArwenWriter / Winner - ArwenWriter
Round 14 - Karmann Ghia vs texgirly / Winner - Karmann Ghia
Round 15 - A. Bard vs Writer22 / Winner - A. Bard
Round 16 - Twilight Sparkle vs Wrinkled Suit / Winner - Twilight Sparkle
Saved - NotAnna
Saved - Cocktail Lion
Playoff Rounds
Round One Bout 1 - Fitzwilliam vs The Baron / Winner - The Baron
Round One Bout 2 - Dame Hortense Pemberton vs petrichor / Winner - petrichor
Round One Bout 3 - Nanato4 vs Cocktail Lion / Winner - Cocktail Lion
Round One Bout 4 - Swick vs ArwenWriter / Winner - Swick
Round One Bout 5 - Huntress vs NotAnna / Winner - NotAnna
Round One Bout 6 - A. Bard vs Imladris / Winner - A. Bard
Round One Bout 7 - Miss Drake vs Dreamer / Winner - Miss Drake
Round One Bout 8 - Karmann Ghia vs Twilight Sparkle / Winner - Twilight Sparkle
Round One Bout 9 - Sapphire Eyes vs Lord Codpiece / Winner - Lord Codpiece
Wildcard Winner - Nanato4
Round Two Bout 1 - petrichor vs Miss Drake / Winner - petrichor
Round Two Bout 2 - Cocktail Lion vs A. Bard / Winner - Cocktail Lion
Round Two Bout 3 - The Baron vs NotAnna / Winner - The Baron
Round Two Bout 4 - Twilight Sparkle vs Lord Codpiece / Winner - Lord Codpiece
Round Two Bout 5 - Nanato4 vs Swick / Winner - Swick
Wildcard Winner - Miss Drake
Round Three Bout 1 - The Baron vs Lord Codpiece / Winner - Lord Codpiece
Round Three Bout 2 - Miss Drake vs The Cocktail Lion / Winner - Cocktail Lion
Round Three Bout 3 - petrichor vs Swick / Winner - Swick
Wildcard Winner - petrichor
Semi-Final One - Lord Codpiece vs petrichor / Winner - Lord Codpiece
Semi-Final Two - Cocktail Lion vs Swick / Winner - Cocktail Lion
Final - Lord Codpiece vs Cocktail Lion
2014 Champion - Lord Codpiece aka Dan Koboldt
Here are the 2014 judges for the final round this year.
Jonathan
Maberry
- a New York Times best-selling and
multiple Bram Stoker Award-winning horror and thriller author, comic book
writer, magazine feature writer, playwright, content creator and writing
teacher/lecturer. His books have been sold to more than a twenty countries. His young adult fiction includes ROT & RUIN (2011; now in
development for film; named in Booklist’s Ten Best Horror Novels for Young
Adults, a Bram Stoker and Pennsylvania Keystone to Reading winner; nominee for
several state Teen Book Awards; winner of the Cybils Award, the Eva Perry Mock
Printz medal, Dead Letter Best Novel Award, and four Melinda Awards); DUST & DECAY (winner of the 2011
Bram Stoker Award; FLESH & BONE
(finalist for the Bram Stoker Award; 2012; and FIRE & ASH (August 2013).
His thrillers include The Joe Ledger Thrillers from St. Martin’s Griffin
(PATIENT ZERO, 2009, winner of the
Black Quill and a Bram Stoker Award finalist for Best Novel; THE DRAGON FACTORY, 2010; THE KING OF PLAGUES, 2011; ASSASSIN’S CODE, 2011; EXTINCTION MACHINE, 2013; CODE ZER0, 2014, PREDATOR ONE, 2015, and JOE
LEDGER: THE MISSING FILES, 2011 from Blackstone Audio.
Jonathan
has published several dozen short stories in a variety of genres: mystery,
horror, thriller, science fiction, military fiction, fantasy, western, urban
fantasy, humor and others. In 2012 Blackstone Audio released two collections of
Jonathan’s short stories: Tales from the Fire Zone and Hungry Tales.
Jonathan’s
Big Scary Blog (www.jonathanmaberry.com) focuses on the publishing industry. Jonathan’s interviews include Sandra Brown,
Gayle Lynds, Alafair Burke, Charlaine Harris, James Rollins, Harlan Coben, Jeff
Abbott, John Saul, Jonathan Kellerman, Barry Eisler, CJ Box, Laurell K.
Hamilton, Jack Ketchum, Tom Piccarilli, Dale Brown, Kevin J. Anderson, Joe
Lansdale, Peter Straub, Ramsey Campbell, Carrie Ryan, and many other
best-selling authors.
Jonathan
lives in Bucks County, Pennsylvania, with his wife, Sara Jo, to whom he
dedicates all of his published works, and their dog, Rosie. His stepson, Sam
West-Mensch, serves a general manager of Jonathan’s writing business.
Visit
his website/blog and sign up for his free newsletter.
Katie
Grimm – Katie
joined Don Congdon Associates in 2007, where in addition to maintaining her own
client list she also acts as business manager.
She focuses on vivid literary fiction, transportive historical fiction,
up-market women’s fiction, cohesive short story collections, and lurid
mysteries & thrillers with exotic or historical settings. In young adult, she is actively seeking both
contemporary and fantastical high-concepts with a touch of romance. In middle grade, she looks for heart and
humor with a strange or creepy twist.
Most importantly, she is hooked by fiction with emotional resonance and
longevity, and in her opinion, this requires an authentic voice, relatable
characters, and a twisting plot that keeps her intrigued. For non-fiction, she is looking for narrative
non-fiction about history, popular science, off-beat topics, and
counter-culture. She is also a member of
SCBWI.
Margaret
Bail
– is a literary agent, has a BA in English and an MFA in Creative and
Professional Writing. With years of experience editing everything from medical
documents to manuscripts, as well as teaching university-level English and
writing, she looks forward to working closely with new and established authors
to help develop their voice and craft.
Her
lifelong love of stories and storytelling has her looking for books that
transport her into the heart of the story, so much so that she’ll forget where
she is and lose track of time while she reads.
Before
joining Inklings, Margaret was an agent at Andrea Hurst Agency.
Sarah Negovetich – Sarah is
fully aware that no one knows how to pronounce her last name, and she's
okay
with that.
Her favorite writing is YA, because at
seventeen the world is your oyster. Only oysters are slimy and more than a
little salty, it's accurate if not exactly motivational.
Sarah's
background is in Marketing. FYI, your high school algebra teacher was right
when they told you every job uses math. She uses her experience to assist
Corvisiero authors with platform building and book promotion
Brittany
Booker
– Brittany Booker is a Literary Agent and co-founder of The Booker Albert
Literary Agency. She has worked with Marisa Corvisiero during her time at the
Lori Perkins agency and the Corvisiero Literary Agency. She has a BA in English
and a minor in journalism from The University of Arkansas at Monticello.
She
is looking for novels that keep her up at night and transports her into the
pages. In fiction she is looking for well-written contemporary romances,
fantasies, YA and New Adult. She is specifically interested in time travel
novels. As for YA, Brittany is drawn to contemporary works; dramatic or funny
romances; and urban fantasy. She's
especially interested in YA that is funny and quirky. The goofier the heroine
the better. Brittany is very interested in New Adult Contemporary Romances,
anything dramatic, funny or with a demanding hero. She is a big sucker for
happy endings. She also has a passion for books set in the south. She has
working knowledge of Japanese and Spanish. Brittany is not looking for memoirs
or paranormal works at the moment.
Brittany
is now considering middle grade and erotica
Candace
Havens
– is the Editorial Director of Covet has written multiple novels for Berkley,
Entangled and Harlequin. Her books have received nominations for the RITA’s,
Holt Medallion and Write Touch Reader Awards. She is the author of the
biography Joss Whedon: The Genius Behind Buffy and a contributor to several
anthologies. She is also one of the nation’s leading entertainment journalists
and has interviewed countless celebrities including Tom Hanks, Nicolas Cage,
Tom Cruise, George Clooney and many more. Her entertainment columns can be read
in more than 600 newspapers across the country. And she is the Editorial
Director for the Covet, Edge and Select lines at Entangled Publishing. Candace
also runs a free online writing workshop for more than 2200 writers, and
teaches comprehensive writing class. She does film reviews with the Hawkeye
& Dorsey on 96.3, and is a former President of the Television Critics
Association
Les
Edgerton
– Is an ex-con who has almost totally reformed and gone straight. A full-time
writer with seventeen books in print, he teaches creative writing on the
university level, through private coaching of writers, and on various on-line
venues. He writes in a variety of forms: novels, short stories, nonfiction
books, screenplays and the subjects he chooses to write about are just as
varied, including literary fiction, thrillers, black comedy, noir, sports and
the craft of writing. He graduated from Indiana University with a B.A. in
General Studies (Honors of Distinction); obtained an MFA in Writing from
Vermont College, and also holds a certificate of barbering from Pendleton
Reformatory.
Lydia Kang – is an author
of young adult fiction, poetry, and narrative non-fiction. She graduated from
Columbia University and New York University School of Medicine, completing her
residency and chief residency at Bellevue Hospital in New York City. She is a
practicing physician who has gained a reputation for helping fellow writers
achieve medical accuracy in fiction. Her poetry and non-fiction have been
published in JAMA, The Annals of Internal Medicine, Canadian Medical
Association Journal, Journal of General Internal Medicine, and Great Weather
for Media. She believes in science and knocking on wood, and currently lives in
Omaha with her husband, three children, and a terrarium full of stick bugs.
Lydia
is represented by Eric Myers of the Spieler Agency and her novel CONTROL is available
now. Her follow up, CATALYST is coming Winter 2015 from Kathy Dawson
Books/Penguin.
Tiana Smith – Tiana was the first ever WRiTE CLUB champion back in 2011! She grew
up in Montana where she learned how to build a fire better than her husband, though
she’s never ridden a horse. She graduated with an English degree with a
creative writing focus from Westminster College and writes YA/MG books. Tiana also likes to design blogs, so if you're
interested in getting one of her premade designs, please visit her shop @ The Blog Decorator.
Mark Hough – Mark Langdale Hough was born in 1978, unable to read. After nearly six years of struggle he overcame this disability, going so far as winning a reading award in first grade. He’s still got the gold sticker to prove
it. He developed a love of writing at age seven and completed a number
of books all entitled: Mean Things My Sister Said To Me While My Parents Were Away. These were big hits among adults, particularly his parents.
He lives on the Connecticut shore with his wife Faith (who is also a writer) and their four young daughters (who daily attempt to teach him to pirouette). You can find his occasional blogging endeavors by clicking on his name above.
In 2005, he began writing his first young adult book, The Spellwriter,
in an attempt to break into the children's book market. In 2008, the
manuscript won first prize in the Tassy Walden Award for New Voices in
Children's Literature. They do not give out stickers for that, so you'll
just have to take his word for it.
Mark is a graduate of the 2010 Highlights Foundation Workshop in Chautauqua (where he was fortunate to be mentored by the incomparable Patricia Lee
Gauch); the 2012 winner of WRiTE CLUB (no stickers for that, either); a
violin maker by day and an artist sometime between 9 p.m. and 3 a.m. There are also plenty of things he’s pretty bad at, like spelling, ballet, and updating blogs.
He lives on the Connecticut shore with his wife Faith (who is also a writer) and their four young daughters (who daily attempt to teach him to pirouette). You can find his occasional blogging endeavors by clicking on his name above.
Tex Thompson - Last year’s WRiTE CLUB winner is Arianne
"Tex" Thompson and she’s a home-grown Texas success story. After
earning a bachelor’s degree in history from UT Dallas and a master’s degree in
literature from the University of Dallas, she went on to become a community
college professor, teaching the fundamentals of English to adults writing below
the eighth-grade level. Now a master teacher for academic tutoring and test
prep services, as well as the managing editor for the DFW Writers Conference,
Tex is a regular feature at high schools, writing conferences, and genre
conventions alike.
With
her first book, a ‘rural fantasy’ novel called One Night in Sixes, Tex joins
the growing ranks of Solaris authors committed to exciting, innovative and
inclusive science fiction and fantasy.
Find her online at www.thetexfiles.com and on Twitter as @tex_maam
I just found out about Write Club from a blog post I just read. This is interesting and fun, and I will be back as a contestant, having read the contest requirements. Michelle @ http://www.writer-way.blogspot.com
ReplyDeleteI hope I didn't skip over the answer to this question, but can we submit more than one entry?
ReplyDeleteYou can submit more than one, but we need a separate pen name for each.
DeleteDoes it need to be a complete story, or the first 500 words of a story? Are there samples of winners from past years to peruse?
ReplyDeleteNo...it can be any 500 words from any part of a larger work, or a standalone piece. Your choice.
DeleteI plan on entering for the first time this year, and I'm stoked about it. I'm going to do a mention for the contest on my blog tomorrow.
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ReplyDeleteLearned about this from a writer friend, and I'll definitely enter.
ReplyDeletewww.michaelsicilianoauthor.com
(the previous deletion was to correct grammar)
Does once appearing as a blog post and on Algonquin's Table count as "published"?
ReplyDeleteSounds fun. Just did a post about it on my blog.
ReplyDeleteSania @ Fragile words
sounds fun will get talking, posting and tweeting!
ReplyDeleteIf I didn't have a ton of ghostwriting to get done, plus my fantasy series, I'd so take part in this. I promise myself I'll participate (though I doubt I'd win) 2015. :)
ReplyDeleteI added a plug to my post today. Don't know that I will have time to enter, but I am happy to pass the word. Thanks for all you do for the blogging community. Maria @ http://delightdirectedliving.blogspot.com/
ReplyDeleteOkay, one thing is not quite clear: We submit a 500 word piece at the start, but after that, is that same piece advancing through each round of the competition, or are we writing new pieces to submit to each round?
ReplyDeleteAlso, is anything we write or have written eligible? Can we submit something previously published (or self-published, or published on our blogs)?
Okay, I finally found the line about "no previously published" (duh), and when I looked closely at previous rounds it looked like it's the same 500 word bit going through all rounds. So... never mind.
DeleteVery excited! :)
ReplyDeleteI found this at the kidlit411 site and I am stoked. Does this mean we can enter any piece of writing...from MG to Adult including poetry? Is that right?
ReplyDeleteYAY!!!
ReplyDeleteAm I right to be just a little bit scared?
ReplyDeleteIf you're not scared, then you're not doing it right! :)
DeleteSuper excited!
ReplyDeleteYou and me both!! :)
DeleteI found this gem of a contest by accident, first one ill be entering, submitted last night. Good Luck everyone!
ReplyDeleteJust to be clear: entry is as simple as emailing it to your wife? I remember last year there was that linky tool thing, so just wanted to make sure I wasn't missing anything.
ReplyDeleteAlso, does it matter how many words it is so long as it's less than 500?
Excited for this contest!
No Linky Tool this year...just send in your entry. And it's 500 words MAX...anything less is perfectly fine.
ReplyDeleteCan we send multiple entries in the same email attachments?
ReplyDeleteYes...just make sure they each have different pen names.
DeleteI just tried your email. Not working.
ReplyDeleteI just tested it and it worked just fine. You are using klhtravel@gmail.com , right?
ReplyDeleteI just got my entry in! :)
ReplyDeleteAlright, I've succumbed to the temptation :) It's just too much of a thrill ride to miss.
ReplyDeleteSo wish I'd known about this sooner! But will follow to see how it works...
ReplyDeleteDL, thanks for doing this again. I know you're coming off a rough time. Good wishes to you and yours.
ReplyDeleteI can't believe I didn't know about this! Definitely going to check out the entries. I love the whole pen name idea!!! Can't wait to read the submissions.
ReplyDeleteGreat line up of judges for the final round! I am a chicken to enter! Can't wait to read the entries.
ReplyDeleteJust to be clear - contestants won't know if they've been selected until the match-up is posted on the site? Is that correct?
ReplyDeleteThat is correct. Last year I posted the list of 32 contestants before the bouts began and nobody showed up to vote. I'm not making that mistake again this year.
DeleteHah! Good idea
DeleteNot to cause issues and I ask this with the utmost respect: If people are the type to not show up and do their fair share, won't that still happen? I mean, say author Q sees she isn't in the match-up for tomorrow, she still won't vote if she is that type of person already (and I wish there were a pill for laziness/buy-in/due diligence). Instead, she will wait to vote until she sees her own first 500. And if she doesn't ever see hers posted, she will never vote. But I've never run a contest, so my thoughts are probably completely off-base. Even if my work doesn't make it in, I will still stop by to vote. :)
ReplyDeleteSo excited! Any idea what time the bouts begin? :)
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ReplyDeleteCould someone check the Round 1 and Round 2 links on this page. Whenever I click on them, it takes me to the 2013 posts.
ReplyDeleteIt works for me in Chrome. http://www.dlhammons.com/2014/06/write-club-2014-bout-1.html
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