Loose Ends

What is it: A multi-stage contest to find the hottest stories with the hottest hooks. What's a hook? A unique premise, clever idea, or new twist on old trope. Who can enter: Anyone not employed by or working for Loose Id. Current Loose Id authors, however, may enter. Submit: - Title of your work - Author Name - Story Hook, in the form of a marketing blurb of 100 words or less - First 250 words of a completed or in progress story of 30,000+ words in any genre currently accepted under Loose Id's submission guidelines. Send: By email to: looseid.hothooks@gmail.com Subject of email: Hot Hooks Contast Deadline: Before Wednesday, September 30. Prizes: The Top Two hooks will receive a contract with Loose Id for the work and publication within the year 2010. The remaining three of the Top Five will receive a critique of their full manuscript. You may submit as many entries as you like, but no more than two for any author can make the Top Twenty, and only one for any author can make the Top Five Five. The Top Twenty will be selected by an in-house committee and notified by October 10. During October 26-29, Loose Id's readers will be given the opportunity to vote on the Top Twenty to select the Top Ten. Top Ten winners will be asked to submit the first 1000 words of their stories by November 1. The Top Five will be announced by November 19. The Top Five will submit their full manuscripts for judging by February 1, 2010. The Top Two winners will be announced no later than February 15.