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1. Monday, Monday

Another week, another batch of winners! Sorry about last week’s tech glitch; let’s hope this week’s smoother.

And the winners are (drum roll):

Dravenuk, for Moderndaydrifter’s Introspective contest.

Shranman, who won Shilom’s New Writer’s contest.

Jopierce and Leila_data for Shilom’s New Friendfic contest.

Shranman’s on a roll, also winning Ktina’s Magic contest.

Ronnie-la’s Help and Helping contest has three winners: friesian, aflockofmoosen, and profligatetale13.


Writerslove won Nicolay-chan’s Lemon’s!!! contest.

Stardommel1994 won Tina-wa’s Twilight Minor Character’s Backstory contest.

Moderndaydrifter won CSIbeauty’s Unpopular Fandom contest.

Jopierce is another double winner, taking first place in Diehardjavajunkie14’s “You Know What They Say,” contest.

Congrats to all!

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2. And The Member Contests Just Keep On Coming!

Another Thursday, another batch of member contests. There’s contests to enter and contests to vote on, not to mention entrants to R&R. So much to do, so little time.

These contests are open for submission:



These contests would like your votes:

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3. Happy 3rd of July!

Whiz! Bang! Ka-boom! What’s that? It’s the sound of America celebrating member contests (even those started by members over seas), and well they should, because, as always, this week we have a bunch of really great ones to get involved with, reading, reviewing, writing, whatever floats your boat.

These babies are open for submission until next Thursday, 7/10:

And these puppies are ready for you to do that most American of activities - VOTE! (think of it as practice for November):

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4. Hello Winners!

Which is all of you…but while you’re all fabulous, some of you actually won contests this week…so let’s find out who!

(Disclaimer - not all winners are listed. There’s so many member contests - you busy little beavers - that if I listed all the winners we’d be here until next Monday. So I’m just highlightin’ a few.)

Congrats to whigworld for winning thedreamcontinued’s Anniversary celebration of KVP!

Thumbs up to cvalin who won diehardjavajunkie14’s Stars Hollow Townie challenge!

I’m loving the joy; go go maryilee! She won the Celebration contest hosted by missmissa85.


Good job misskitten, you won flashforeward’s prequel contest!

and finally…

congrats to cathrl! She has won… oh no wait, she will have been winning… not that’s not it… oh, i’ve got it… she wins the Active Voice contest run by julieann

Congrats to all the active, inactive, passive, pluperfect and just plain old perfect competitors who participated in all these contests. Good on ya!

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5. Oh Sweet Thursday Of Life At Last I’ve Found You

It’s Thursday and everyone knows what that means! Git yer contest hats on. A bunch of fun stuff this week to get involved with. As always there’s a bunch of Twilight Contests - you Twilight fans are so active - plus, make your own FanLib Fortune Cookies. Cool Huh?

Member contests open for submissions:



These contests will end by next Thursday (which is my birthday) and need your votes.

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6. A Bookstore Remembered...


For Marissa Doyle, author of the fantastic novel Bewitching Season, the best bookstore in the world exists in memory (well, and in Massachusetts too)...

I actually haven't set foot in one of my favorite bookstores in almost twenty-five years...but I don't think I'd be a writer today if I hadn't gone there frequently as a child and young teen.

The store is The Bunch of Grapes Bookshop in Vineyard Haven on Martha's Vineyard. I grew up spending a lot of time on the Vineyard when it was still a funky, artistic-y place, before it was "discovered". So you got used to seeing James Taylor or Walter Cronkite or Ruth Gordon or Art Buchwald on the streets or in restaurants, and you just ignored them, because on the Vineyard it just didn't matter.

I had (still have!) a wonderful mom who could never say no to buying me books, so a trip to the Bunch of Grapes was de rigueur every weekend we were on the Vineyard. And it was during some of these trips that I found books that I'd never seen anywhere else--books like Susan Cooper's The Dark is Rising series and Dorothy Hartley's Lost Country Life and Evangeline Walton's The Mabinogion, a retelling of ancient Welsh myths and a book I still re-read and buy for people to read because it's that good. These books are a big reason why I write YA historical and fantasy fiction today...and I might never had found them at a critical time in my reading life if the wonderful people at Bunch of Grapes didn't have a fabulous children's book section back before children's books were "important".

Thanks, guys, for introducing me to those books.

Sounds like she needs to plan an author event on the Vineyard! We'll come to that!

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