Monday, October 11, 2010

I'M A SEMIFINALIST and Winners of The Sanctuary and Name the Clown Doll Contests



Okay, ya'all. I submitted an essay to a huge contest for a haunted attraction in Ohio and the judges were all big people in the horror industry. Thousands of people entered. The prizes are wicked amazing. Well, I was curious if they had done any judging and looked on the site and found I was one of the 13 finalists! Holy Crap! It was a steampunk-themed turn-of-the-century dude named Edgar Krawly and you had to invent a reason he was stealing brains. Well, I used my psychometry idea since that's something I know a lot about. No one notified me I was a semifinalist, but then I don't live at my old address, so maybe I missed it. Anyways, I had to take my 500-word entry and make it 1000 and then resend it in for the finals. The winner wins a shitload of amazing stuff, but the 13 finalists win these. I am totally shocked. I honestly didn't work on a 1000-word version of the essay because I didn't think I'd ever make it that far. Wow! So, had to share that since it's a big horror prize and we all love horror prizes. I will share the essay with ya'all when the contest is over.