{"id":1157,"date":"2012-09-17T02:24:26","date_gmt":"2012-09-17T06:24:26","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/juliesondradecker.com\/?p=1157"},"modified":"2014-02-27T00:40:31","modified_gmt":"2014-02-27T05:40:31","slug":"come-and-get-it-contest-finalists","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/juliesondradecker.com\/?p=1157","title":{"rendered":"Come and Get It! Contest: Finalists"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>So, as a judge for Cupid&#8217;s <a href=\"http:\/\/cupidslitconnection.blogspot.com\/2012\/09\/come-and-get-it-contest-info.html\">Come and Get It! <\/a>Contest, I had to choose four finalists out of the original ten entries I was given.\u00a0 The judges all agreed that it was a rough choice.\u00a0 I was pretty highly critical of all my entries and gave a LOT of feedback, and I really hope it&#8217;s helped everyone\u2014not just my four finalists\u2014in their search for an agent.<\/p>\n<p><strong>My final four<\/strong> (&#8220;original entry&#8221; links to where you can read my comments; &#8220;finalist&#8221; links to where you can see if agents bid on them)<strong>:<\/strong><\/p>\n<ul>\n<li><a href=\"http:\/\/cupidslitconnection.blogspot.com\/2012\/09\/cagi-entry-38.html\">Original Entry #38<\/a>, <a href=\"http:\/\/cupidslitconnection.blogspot.com\/2012\/09\/cagi-finalist-28.html\">Finalist #28<\/a>: THE ASTRONAUT&#8217;S DAUGHTER, YA Historical<\/li>\n<li><a href=\"http:\/\/cupidslitconnection.blogspot.com\/2012\/09\/cagi-entry-39.html\">Original Entry #39<\/a>, <a href=\"http:\/\/cupidslitconnection.blogspot.com\/2012\/09\/cagi-entry-34_16.html\">Finalist #34<\/a>: EYRE HOUSE, YA Gothic<\/li>\n<li><a href=\"http:\/\/cupidslitconnection.blogspot.com\/2012\/09\/cagi-entry-87.html\">Original Entry #87<\/a>, <a href=\"http:\/\/cupidslitconnection.blogspot.com\/2012\/09\/cagi-finalist-20.html\">Finalist #20<\/a>: ENDANGERED, MG Fantasy Adventure<\/li>\n<li><a href=\"http:\/\/cupidslitconnection.blogspot.com\/2012\/09\/cagi-entry-89.html\">Original Entry #89<\/a>, <a href=\"http:\/\/cupidslitconnection.blogspot.com\/2012\/09\/cagi-finalist-3.html\">Finalist #3<\/a>: RACE TO BUTCH CASSIDY&#8217;S GOLD, MG Mystery<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<p>I must say it was an interesting experience being on the other side of the fence in a contest.\u00a0 It wasn&#8217;t as hard as I thought it might be, though.\u00a0 It took some time, effort, and energy, but I was very confident in the entries I chose and enjoyed giving feedback.\u00a0 If anyone wants to ask questions about my feedback, let me know.\u00a0 I&#8217;m an open book!<\/p>\n<p>In <a href=\"http:\/\/twonerdsonedream.blogspot.ca\/2012\/09\/what-are-you-up-against-cagi.html\">a nice nerdy blog post<\/a>, Kristy Shen has analyzed the chosen entries and processed the data on genres overall, genres by judge, and age groups.\u00a0 Very cool~!<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>So, as a judge for Cupid&#8217;s Come and Get It! Contest, I had to choose four finalists out of the original ten entries I was given.\u00a0 The judges all agreed that it was a rough choice.\u00a0 I was pretty highly critical of all my entries and gave a LOT of feedback, and I really hope [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[36,44],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-1157","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-blog","category-contests-2"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/juliesondradecker.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1157","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/juliesondradecker.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/juliesondradecker.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/juliesondradecker.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/juliesondradecker.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=1157"}],"version-history":[{"count":5,"href":"https:\/\/juliesondradecker.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1157\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":2117,"href":"https:\/\/juliesondradecker.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1157\/revisions\/2117"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/juliesondradecker.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=1157"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/juliesondradecker.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=1157"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/juliesondradecker.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=1157"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}