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Suite Scarlett
Martin family birthday breakfasts followed a strict tradition. First, there were Belgian waffles, made by Belinda, the beloved Hopewell Hotel cook. These were served up with an array of toppings: chocolate syrup, fresh lemon whipped cream, stewed strawberries, and powdered vanilla sugar. The air should have been thick with wafflely perfume. Instead, there was an acrid, confusing smell, undercut by a light touch of smoke.
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INSERT A ZOMBIE, WIN A PRIZE
To expand on my last entry . . .
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It’s time to give away the VERY LAST SUITE SCARLETT ARC. I get no more copies until the real book comes out. This is it.
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And this contest? It’s big. And it’s awesome.
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Here’s the challenge: take one paragraph of a book that you feel can be improved by zombies . . . and PUT THAT ZOMBIE IN THERE. (Need an example? See the previous entry!)
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Roolz:
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- Keep it to one paragraph. (250 words or less. Less is better.)
- Â Make sure to give the title and author, so we can know whose work is being zombified. If these are not given, the zombified work will not be considered!
-  E-mail the much-improved work to me at maureen@maureenjohnsonbooks.com. Please use the subject line: ZOMBIE INSIDE! You may enter as many times as you like. (So, if you want to zombify 30 stories, you can! But they must be different ones each time.) The deadline is February 14th. You can go right up to midnight (US, east coast time).
- Â All of these wonderful entries will be read by me and some of my zombie expert friends.* Five finalists will be chosen. On February 15th, these five entries will be posted. And then, the madness begins. Because . . .
-  You know who picks the winner? YOU DO! It’s like ZOMBIE IDOL!
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The glory of having your beautiful zombies shown to the world is PRIZE ENOUGH. But the winner will also get the final Suite Scarlett.
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May the luck of the undead be with you.
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You will immediately notice the improvement one zombie can make.
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*Â No special consideration will be given to people who zombify my books, but it will definitely make me happy. I really should have put a zombie in Scarlett . . .Â
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that is fearsomely awesome. i must enter.
*goes to enter*
That is my absolute favorite movie ever… (The Philadelphia Story, from that picture)
Just had to point that out. I’m off to try to zomblify something now…
there is always time in the sequel!
AHHH!
*runs around the room with excitement*
Zombie Idol, that is the most brilliant idea that I have ever heard, I just laughed so hard when I read that!
*Races to set of classics to improve historic literature with zombies*
Have I mentioned, Maureen, that I fully adore you? Ever so.
That’s such a freakishly awesome contest.
I must now choose a scene to zombify.
And I like the ‘Zombie Idol’ thing. They should get zombies on American Idol. Then I might watch it and vote for people.
Hmm… I’ll try and find a book that needs to be zombified. Prepare for the zombies!
I know just what to zombify!!! BWHAHAHAHAHAHAHAH!
Bestt contest ever! Zombie Idol has a much better ring to it than American Idol dont ya think. I just submited mine
Justine (Magic Child Mangosteen genius) wants us to zombify her books. She says it will make her very happy.
and there’s always the next book mj.
Best. competition. ever.
Maureen Johnson- decreasing world suck one amazing post at a time.
Maureen you are awsome!!! Now on to my engilsh book so i can improve all the boring stories in it!!!!!!
This really is brilliant. Even if my entry has a grammatical typo. I hope you’ll put up all of the entries later, not just the finalists, so we can see just how evil everyone can be.
Zombie Idol?
I fully snorted out my soda just then. You know, in a good way.
will we lose points if we add zombies to an already fabulous book?
profoundly unhappy to have missed deadline stop will submit zombified passage anyway for sheer thrill of it stop thinking about St. Crispin’s Day speech in Shakespeare’s Henry IV stop but we will see stop
Missed the contest! Drat! But I didn’t have a book idea, anyway. I had The Wizard of Oz stuck in my head:
We’re off to eat a bloke from Aus
A wonderful bloke from Aus
We hear he is a delectable meal
If ever a meal there was
If ever, oh ever, a meal there was
A bloke from Aus is one because
Because, because, because, because, because
Because of the wonderful flesh he has, he does
We’re off to eat a bloke from Aus
A wonderful bloke from Aus
LOL!!!
Kels