Hands up everyone who saw THAT coming!

[neadods]

Only Big Finish is surprised by this.

Big Finish has just announced the results of their competition, which was for un(professionally)published authors to send in a "How the Doctor Changed My Life" story. The grand prize is to be published in a Short Trips anthology.

The grand prize winner is indeed in that anthology, and his story will appear among those of established authors.

However, in the 1,000 entries they received were enough excellent stories that they have basically announced that there will also be a Short Trips anthology that consists entirely of the 25 closest runners-up.

Comments

[inamac.livejournal.com]

It doesn't surprise me. UK DW fandom has been traditionally male and it tends to be males who enter these sorts of competitions (SFX magazine, which is mainly DW wank, runs fiction competition which is also predominantly entered by males.) This sort of demographic reasearch may have been behind the FanLib publicity debacls.

There is also the fact that a large number of female fanwriters, having honed their craft on fanfic, are also professionally published authors so are debarred from entering...

[inamac.livejournal.com]

And yes, I should have spellchucked that. research. debacle...

[neadods.livejournal.com]

There's also the part where a lot of the fandom here, particularly the new Who fans, don't know what Big Finish is. I think the next time they run a contest - this is the second, so I feel safe in predicting a third - word of mouth advertising on this side of the pond will bring in more American women.