All,
As many of you know, I'm the webmaster over at Dragonmount.com, one of the large WHEEL OF TIME fan sites. I'm in frequent communication with Brandon Sanderson -- we talk about once a month on the phone.
So the other day I mentioned to him that I've been involved in Reading Excuses and he was thrilled to hear its going well. He expressed some interest in reading the best we have to offer. So we came up with a plan.
We need to pick 5 submissions from what has been submitted so far, and send them over to him. He'll read them all, and then at the JordanCon convention in mid-April, he'll give the best one to Tom Doherty (the president of Tor) to read with his personal recommendation.
Submission Criteria:
- Must have already been submitted and reviewed by RE members
- Must be the fantasy or sci-fi genre
- 3500 word limit
- It has to be polished. Free of typos, etc.
- A 1-page synopsis of the entire novel has to be included.
It's up to us to choose the 5. Our deadline to decide and get the submissions to Brandon is in one week: April 8. What do you guys think?
(As a starting point, I'll nominate one of Reave's Crystalheart chapters, as well as one of Hamster's Soul Taker chapters. Thoughts?