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And The Nano Winners Are ...

From Ben White at Nanoism:

This year we converted $50 in prize money into $400 of charitable donations to wonderful organizations working from animal health to global health, clean water to fighting hunger. Thanks to everyone who donated! Without further ado, here are Robert Swartwood’s selections for this year:

  1. Johnna Talbot
  2. Pat Tompkins
  3. Sarah Stanton

Honorable mention: Jackie Bateman

Winners will be published beginning this week, starting with our honorable mention and running through Monday the 23rd, when our big (but equally small) winner will go live. Thank you everyone for your generosity.

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Thanks too to everyone who entered the Stripped giveaway contest. I failed to announce a winner on Saturday because I ended up taking a road trip with Brian Keene to Wilkes-Barre to see Nick Mamatas, who had been more or less stranded there due to weather. You can read about some of the trip here and here.

So now, without further ado, the randomly selected winner of the Stripped anthology is ...

RichardPF

Congrats, Richard! Email me your mailing address to robert (at) robertswartwood (dot) com when you get a chance, and I'll ship out a copy of Stripped sometime after the launch party February 4th.

Micro Help Wanted

The deadline to submit a story for the 5th Annual Micro Award is fast approaching. In fact, despite posting the guidelines here back in October, I almost forgot about it completely. I've been fortunate with the Micro Award in the past -- two years a finalist, one year a runner-up -- and while I don't really see my luck holding out much longer, I figure it still doesn't hurt to submit something.

And looking back at the stories I've published this past year, I see that I haven't really published much at all. 2010 saw sixteen stories published in both online and print, while 2011 saw only six stories published only online, and the majority of those were at the beginning of the year, meaning most of them had been accepted in 2010. Obviously, my focus has been elsewhere this past year, but still, that's a pretty low number.

Anyway, I decided there are two strong stories to submit, but I can only submit one, and here's where I would like your help. I'm split between my stories "Fright X" from Storyglossia and "Crash Test Dummy" from PANK -- one real, one surreal. If you have a few minutes and can check them out (or if you've already read them when they were first published), let me know which you think I should send. That would be great.

Of course, if the story I end up submitting doesn't place as a finalist, I will blame you endlessly, so no pressure!

Tonight, Tonight, Tonight

A quick reminder about tonight's doubleheader reading. The first one starts at 7 pm EST, the second one starts at 7 pm PST. I will probably wear a Santa Claus hat, and maybe pants. I will read some from Man of Wax, and will announce something sort of important and (which so far) has been somewhat secretive, and read a few chapters of a book that probably won't be coming out any time soon. And, of course, I'll answer questions or whatever. Shouldn't be more than ten, fifteen minutes at the most. Don't miss it!

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