You are “The Suck”.

Posted on April 1, 2010 by yearofthedog

The deadline has passed. The contest is over. Not a single person entered. Nuff said.

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0 hits in 5 days. Boo!

Posted on March 15, 2010 by yearofthedog

A new low for our little website. Not a single visitor in 5 days. Not even an e-mail to ask about the contest? Hopefully things will change soon.

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So far, no good.

Posted on March 14, 2010 by yearofthedog

Still no entries. I didn’t think it would be this difficult.

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The Daily Cougar

Posted on March 3, 2010 by yearofthedog

Today we posted an online ad in The Daily Cougar, U of H’s newspaper. It’s free to post in one category for students and faculty. Hopefully it will draw the attention of some creative writing majors. We’re looking forward to reading your stories.

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Facebook ads

Posted on February 26, 2010 by yearofthedog
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When we started planning to create this magazine we knew that we would have to advertise. We thought a few fliers at the University of Houston and the surrounding junior colleges might get some interest. U of H rejected the idea and said that we had to be a student organization to post anything on their bulletins. We don’t know what the junior colleges will say, but we hope it won’t be the same response.

We have had some luck though with paid advertisement. Facebook has very simple, cheap, and effective ads. Over half of the hits we’ve had so far have been directed from Facebook. Although many people have viewed our contest page, nobody has submitted a story. Our well wishers tell us, “Give them time to write a story. It’s still early.” It’s probably true…We’ll just have to wait and see.

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Progress

Posted on February 25, 2010 by yearofthedog
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So far we have had several visits to our site, but no submissions as of yet. Now is your chance to be the first one. There is still plenty of time to enter before the deadline 3/31/2010.

Let me tell you a little bit more about what kind of stories I’m looking for. I’m are looking for original unpublished stories. Personally I like fiction, especially sci-fi. Chuck Palahniuk, Karen Traviss, and Stephen King are some of my favorite authors. However I don’t expect any of them to enter the contest. All kidding aside, what I really want to read is a story that makes me want to keep on reading.

There will be more than one judge for the contest. Right now it’s just myself and one other, but depending on how many submissions we receive we will most likely get one more person to help read and judge your submissions. Our other judge enjoys biographical stories.

If you have any questions, please feel to ask.

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Welcome to Restless Writer Magazine.

Posted on February 23, 2010 by yearofthedog

Hello my name is Daniel Gonzalez. I’m the editor of Restless Writer Magazine. I’m looking for talented fiction writers. Right now we are having our first of what will be a monthly contest. The prize is $200. Click on the Contest tab above for more details. This contest is our way of finding the best of the best. If we like your stuff we might ask you to join our magazine as a regular paid contributor. Good luck and we look forward to reading your stories.

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