{"id":310,"date":"2007-01-13T16:10:42","date_gmt":"2007-01-13T16:10:42","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.buffyholt.com\/blog\/2007\/01\/13\/american-idol-for-the-writer\/"},"modified":"2007-01-13T17:51:38","modified_gmt":"2007-01-13T17:51:38","slug":"american-idol-for-the-writer","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.buffyholt.com\/blog\/2007\/01\/13\/american-idol-for-the-writer\/","title":{"rendered":"american idol for the writer"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Yesterday I checked that email address I never check &#8211; and I&#8217;m glad of it.  Amidst all the annoying chain letters, the phentermine and porn spam, I had a note from the lovely <a href=\"http:\/\/dishwithdina.blogspot.com\" target=_blank>Dina<\/a>.<\/p>\n<p>The food blogess and publishing girl sent me an email re: <strong>Gather.com&#8217;s First Chapters Writing Competition.<\/strong>  It&#8217;s being promoted as something like American Idol for the Writer.   The social networking site is teaming up with Touchstone\/Simon &#038; Schuster to look for unpublished authors &#8211; with full length commercial-fiction manuscripts.  The contest goes something like this&#8230;<\/p>\n<p>The first three chapters will be posted online, one at a time, where the Gather.com community will vote for their favourite.  The manuscripts still remaining after three elimination rounds (one for each chapter) will be judged by a panel of industry big wigs including Carolyn K. Reidy, President of the Simon &#038; Schuster Adult Publishing Group; Mark Gompertz, Executive Vice President &#038; Publisher of Touchstone Books and George Jones, Borders Group CEO. <\/p>\n<p>The winner will receive a publishing contract with Touchstone\/Simon &#038; Schuster, a $5,000 cash prize from Gather.com and promotion and distribution by Borders.  <\/p>\n<p>All you writerly people, what do you think?  Anyone fancy it?<\/p>\n<p><center><a href=\"http:\/\/www.gather.com\/viewArticle.jsp?articleId=281474976881780\" target=_blank>Gather.com&#8217;s First Chapters Writing Competition<\/a><\/center><\/p>\n<!-- AddThis Advanced Settings generic via filter on the_content --><!-- AddThis Share Buttons generic via filter on the_content -->","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Yesterday I checked that email address I never check &#8211; and I&#8217;m glad of it. Amidst all the annoying chain letters, the phentermine and porn spam, I had a note from the lovely Dina. The food blogess and publishing girl sent me an email re: Gather.com&#8217;s First Chapters Writing Competition. It&#8217;s being promoted as something<!-- AddThis Advanced Settings generic via filter on get_the_excerpt --><!-- AddThis Share Buttons generic via filter on get_the_excerpt --><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[7],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-310","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-hum-drum"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.buffyholt.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/310","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.buffyholt.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.buffyholt.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.buffyholt.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.buffyholt.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=310"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.buffyholt.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/310\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.buffyholt.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=310"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.buffyholt.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=310"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.buffyholt.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=310"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}