Team Libboo proudly announces our March 2012 Bounty winners – “Vacation & Holiday Mayhem”.  And, what better way to kick off our announcement than a party hosted BING at South by Southwest in Austin, Texas. Team Libboo announced our Bounty winners to hundreds of media peops, authors and SxSW attendees today at an interactive party, where we will include more details in a future blog.

Out Libboo Bounty winners are:

“A Very Journey Xmas” by Jessie Blaade

“Vampires We Have Heard on High” by Mike Vago

“Away from it All” by Joseph Mazzola

“The Nutcracker as I See It” by Nick Zaino

“Uncle Sam’s Porch” by Gabriel LaPorte

Libboo bounty winners receive a publishing deal with Libboo, will earn 3 times more royalties than with a traditional publisher, a cash award and the exposure & notoriety authors deserve.

Congratulations to our Bounty winners and be sure to follow our blog for more details, interviews and more. You can also check us out on www.facebook.com/libboo and follow us on www.twitter.com/blog.

-Team Libboo

VACATION AND HOLIDAY MAYHEM

– a comedy tour de force -

DECEMBER 16TH,2011 – March 1st, 2012

—–NOW CLOSED—–

FREE to Enter

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What is Bounty? Well, it’s part competition – part publishing deal. You write a short story about the latest topic found here and publish it on Libboo under the ‘Bounty Category’. We let community involvement decide the top five (5) – which we then publish… for real…. offering a cash prize AND 50% royalties! Good eh?

Contribute your funniest, hilarious, and crazy short story about vacations or holidays, get-togethers, road trips…well, you get the idea.   The genre is comedy or satire – fiction or non-fiction – short stories of at least 1000 words to 3500 words (max).

Join Libboo – it’s 100% free

Click here to learn more about our Bounty Writing competition

Get it written – at Libboo.com

It is time for our second Libboo Bounty…

VACATION AND HOLIDAY MAYHEM

a comedy tour de force

DECEMBER 16TH,2011 – March 1st, 2012

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BE FEATURED IN 3 MAJOR BOOK BLOGS AND BOOK MEDIA OUTLETS

BE FEATURED & ON THE SHELVES OF A BOOKSTORE

RECEIVE 50% ROYALTIES

a $100 CASH AWARD

no entry fees

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We’ve all had them at least once in our lifetime – and some of us, more than we care to admit. Those pesky family reunions, crazy and wild get-togethers with friends, reunions with old classmates and let’s not forget – the wild and crazy road trips & holidays that are just a treasure trove of comedic and satiric enjoyment!  Now is your chance to put it all down on paper – well…better yet, get it written and published on Libboo!

The Prize

The winning stories will be the highest scoring stories published under the Bounty Category on Libboo.com

Libboo will select the top 5 scoring short stories submitted under the Bounty category – and create one book, a collection of short stories , that will be published by Libboo

1. Gain exposure and notoriety…You and your story will be featured in 3 major book blogs and book media sites worldwide.

2. Be part of a book that will be on sale through Barnes & Noble and Amazon digital storefronts.

3. Featured and for sale as a physical book by the Independent Bookstore Consortium of America

4. $100 cash award to each winning story

5. 50% of the royalties from the earnings of the sale of the book to be divided equally among each of the authors in the final book

Rules

Start date: December 16th, 2011

End date: March 1st, 2012 at 11:59pm EST

Genre: Comedy, satire

Word Count: 1000 (min), 3500 (max)

Published Category: Bounty

Topic: funny vacations, holidays, road trip stories,

satires about family or friendly get-togethers…

There are no age/gender/background limitations. Anyone can enter! 100% free

How to Enter

To be eligible, you must be a member of Libboo.com. Libboo is totally free and will never spam or share your information with anybody! If you are not a Libboo member, you can sign up for free here: www.libboo.com/signup

Your story must be created and published on Libboo before 11:59 EST on January 30th, 2012. There is a significant advantage to publishing your story as soon as possible. Your story must be published within the category ‘Bounty’ on Libboo.com. We highly recommend you write with at least one other person – i.e. an editor, proofreader, etc.

To Begin:

1. click on ‘write‘ under the Navigate column

2. Click on ‘Write a Libbook’ under the Actions column

You will be prompted to complete the following steps:

STEP 1. Title  your Libbook

STEP 2. Under ‘Category‘ select BOUNTY – Vacation & Holiday Mayhem

Once you have completed all the steps, click ‘GO’!

Tips on how to win

1. Publish early! The longer your story is available to read on Libboo, the greater the potential to get a high score

2. Try collaborating: it is a fact that stories with 2 or more contributors (i.e. an Editor, and a Writer) are 3x more likely to be successful

3. Use Images: an eye-catching front cover can make all the difference

4. Promote your Story! Spread the word about your story on social networks like Facebook and Twitter, as well as forums

5. Get it Reviewed! A huge component of a story’s score is the opinion of fellow Libbooers

Most importantly, have fun and enjoy the writing experience

In Delirium Bloom is the first book created entirely through Bounty – Our way of asking for a particular piece of genre from our growing community of authors, readers and content creators.  We want you to meet the authors who created the wonderful short stories, now collected and published as In Delirium Bloom - now available to read online only on Libboo and for sale on Barnes & Noble and Amazon for $2.99.

In Delirium Bloom began as a ‘call’ to our community asking for short fiction related to anything about Zombies, Vampires and Werewolves. For an entire month, our community of authors responded – creating and publishing wonderful short stories in this genre on Libboo.com. Towards the end, our technology analyzed and gave us the best, most popular, top 5 short stories – the winners for this Bounty. Now, lets meet the authors:

NICK ZAINO III

Sing for your Life

Nick Zaino is a writer and musician based in Boston. His work as a journalist has appeared in the Boston Globe, the Boston Phoenix, Blurt, American Songwriter, and TheSpitTake.com. His fiction has been published in One Buck Horror and TalesOfWorldWarZ.com. He is a big fan of the zombie genre in all mediums – The Walking Dead, David Moody’s novels, Max Brooks, and of course, the Romero films. You can hear his music at http://nickzaino.bandcamp.com/. He is uncomfortable writing about himself in the third person, but does it anyway.

ALEXIS LYKANOS

South of the Wallomsac

Alexis was born in Lyme, New Hampshire. After graduating from Williams College in 2010, he lived for a year in Boston and now resides in Baltimore.  He has been writing fiction since he was young, and although he mainly writes short stories now, he hopes to pen a novel at some point.  He loves reading fiction, particularly realism and magical realism.  Influences include Ray Carver, Ernest Hemingway, Haruki Murakami, Karen Russell, and Anton Chekhov.  In addition to being published on Libboo, he won the 2010 Benjamin B. Wainright Prize in Fiction at Williams College.  His story, “South of the Walloomsac,” gets its thematic inspiration from his lifelong love of werewolves (he himself may very well be one…) and the idea of transformation more generally. He likes to think about how setting influences the meaning of stories.

JOSEPH MAZZOLA

Wrath to the Least

My name is Joseph Mazzola, and I’m a Bostonian, although I wish I lived in either Texas or Ireland. I’ve been writing since High School but Wrath to the Least is the first of my many, many short stories to be published, but it won’t be the last if I have half a say. I was inspired to become a fantasy writer in 2003 by the Elder Scrolls video game series, which showed me with its detailed world and lore that fantasy has no limits outside the author’s head. Wrath to the Least was a half-formed idea floating around for this world that I had created about these shriveled ghosts that had nothing left but their own rage. When I saw that Zombies was a potential subject for the Bounty, I got to thinking that perhaps these ghosts, called Furies after the spirits in Greek Mythology, should be able to possess dead bodies for a sort of High Fantasy zombie tale, and then I had the protagonist be a character I had already set as the hero in some other, as yet unpublished, stories. The result, when all these disparate parts came together, was a tale that focused more on a somewhat lighthearted “fantasy western” as opposed to straight horror, which should help give a nice variety of tone to the In Delerium Bloom collection.

SARA ADAMS

Here and Now

Sara Adams lives in Haverhill and is currently a student at University of Massachusetts in Boston. Sara looks to earn her Bachelor’s Degree in Theater Arts, intending to direct as well as write. She is an avid fan of noir, thrillers, and horror stories, though is always looking to try out something new. She is extremely grateful to Libboo for this opportunity, and looks forward to more chances like this in the future.

DAVE PALMER

The Familiar

David Palmer is Libboo member @lincsdave. He has published a variety of highly rated works on Libboo such as The Flute and is a Co-author of PARADOX: The curious life and mysterious death of Mr. Joseph Wheeler.

AMANDA BRACK

Illustrator (book cover and final page)

Amanda Brack is a native of Maine and will commence her senior year at The School of the museum of Fine Arts in Boston, MA. Amanda has received the Gold and Silver award at the Boston Globe Show in 2008, has had a gallery showing in Savannah GA in March 2010 and has illustrated other book covers. You can learn more and visit her virtual gallery at  http://amandabrack.carbonmade.com

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Be sure to follow us for more author interviews, news, writing tips and more bounties – Get it written at Libboo.com.

-Team Libboo

Team Libboo thanks everyone who contributed and took part in our first ever Bounty. We are currently working hard on producing the first collection of short stories that will sell through Barnes & Noble and Amazon.

ZOMBIES, VAMPIERS & WEREWOLVES

Image by Amanda Brack

Coming soon….

You can find this bounty’s top 5 stories on Libboo:

THE FAMILIAR by David Palmer

HERE AND NOW by Sara Adams

SING FOR YOUR LIFE by Nick Ziano

WRATH TO THE LEAST by Joseph Mazzola

SOUTH OF THE WALLOOMSAC by Alexis Lykanos

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BOUNTY

Your chance to write & win – become a published author – get exposure & be noticed

Our second bounty is coming soon….

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The thrill of creating and collaborating is found at Libboo.com

THIS BOUNTY IS NOW CLOSED AND NO LONGER TAKING SUBMISSIONS.

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Libboo is proud to announce its first Bounty…

ZOMBIES, VAMPIRES & WEREWOLVES

$100 cash award to each winning story
50% of the royalties from the sale of the book
no entry fee!

THIS BOUNTY IS CLOSED

The Prize

Libboo will select the top 5 scoring short stories submitted under the Bounty category – and create one book that will be published and sold by Libboo through Barnes & Noble, Amazon and iBooks, alongside print-on-demand services across the USA. Libboo will also promote the book in major press and publications. The winning short stories receive:

$100 cash award to each winning story
50% of the royalties from the sale of the book to be divided equally among each contributor to the final book
The kudos of winning the first Libboo Bounty

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Rules

Genre: Short Fiction
Word Count: 1000 (min), 5000 (max)
Published Category: Bounty
Topic: Anything fiction involving Zombies, Vampires & Werewolves

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How to Enter

To be eligible, you must be a member of Libboo.com. Libboo is totally free and will never spam or share your information with anybody! If you are not a Libboo member, you can sign up for free here: www.libboo.com/signup
Your story must be created and published on Libboo before November 16th 2011. There is a significant advantage to publishing your story as soon as possible.
Your story must be published within the category ‘Bounty’ on Libboo.com

To Begin:

1. click on ‘write‘ under the Navigate column

2. Click on ‘Write a Libbook’ under the Actions column

You will be prompted to complete the following steps:

STEP 1. Give a title for your Libbook

STEP 2. Under ‘Category‘ select BOUNTY

Once you have completed all the steps, click ‘GO’!

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The winning stories will be the highest scoring stories on Libboo submitted in the Bounty category on the 16th November 2011

There are no age/gender/background limitations. Anyone can enter! Libboo is always 100% free.

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Tips on how to win

- Publish early! The longer your story is available to read on Libboo, the greater the potential to get a high score

- Try collaborating: it is a fact that stories with 2 or more contributors (i.e. an Editor, and a Writer) are 3x more likely to be successful

- Use Images: an eye-catching front cover can make all the difference

- Promote your Story! Spread the word about your story on social networks like Facebook and Twitter, as well as forums

- Get it Reviewed! A huge component of a story’s score is the opinion of a Libboo member’s review

Most importantly, have fun and enjoy the writing experience

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Team Libboo
www.libboo.com