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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.

Date: 2007-06-19 08:11 pm (UTC)
From: [identity profile] sizequeen.livejournal.com
No, not gender discrimination. I'm wondering how many women actually submitted stories. Did they keep them all in a drawer? Or are stories that suit women's tastes, not to the tastes of the editors?

Date: 2007-06-19 08:49 pm (UTC)
From: [identity profile] neadods.livejournal.com
I don't know, because I don't think that stories are that gendered to begin with - after all, there are plenty of women in Who fandom. And Big Finish has come up with some really amazing and popular storylines... including a couple that have been adapted for New Who. (Utopia takes some major plot points from Big Finish audio #49. Which was, admittedly, written by a guy.)

Past Big Finish anthologies have had introspective character shorts, action bits, and some very broad humor, so it's not all wham-bam-action-guy stuff. (And it doesn't hurt that my absolute favorite of the licensed tie-in novelists is a woman.)

Looking at the BF list of also-wons, I see two definately female names, two that sound male but could be shortened female names [Dann(ielle) and Chris(tine)] and three sets of initials, which are gender-neutral (as JK Rowling proved... and I would not be shocked if they were some women hiding their identity as she did.) So the gender blend may not be too horribly skewed.

Date: 2007-06-20 12:08 am (UTC)
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From: [identity profile] calapine.livejournal.com
Ah, I'm one of the initials. So there's at least three women there, yes.

Date: 2007-06-20 10:41 am (UTC)
From: [identity profile] neadods.livejournal.com
I'm one of the initials.

I thought there were women among the initials! Go YOU! That is so frickin' cool that you're in! (I'm going to have to find a more flattering phrase than "also won" aren't I?) Congrats on being so good they *had* to take your story too!

Date: 2007-06-21 12:15 am (UTC)
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From: [identity profile] calapine.livejournal.com
Heh, thank you. It's terribly exciting, yes.

Date: 2007-06-21 01:12 am (UTC)
From: [identity profile] neadods.livejournal.com
As well it ought to be!

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