Short Story Competition

To celebrate our One-Year Anniversary we're holding another Short Story Competition.

We're giving away a R1000 cash prize to 1st place as well as great prizes to 2nd and 3rd place.

Rules:

• Stories must be under 2500 words in length and can be about anything as long as they are Science-Fiction and scary, suspenseful, supernatural... etc.
• Only Email entries will be accepted and all entries should be attached as a Word Doc and emailed to scaryscifi@somethingwicked.co.zaThis e-mail address is being protected from spam bots, you need JavaScript enabled to view it - with SHORT STORY COMPETITION in the subject line - the usual Submission Guidelines apply.
• Please include your name and contact details with your entry. We will be unable to process stories without contact information.
• Deadline is Midnight (GMT) on the 1st of December 2007
• Entrants must be resident in South Africa
  
• Judges Decisions will be final and no correspondence will be entered into.

Start Writing Now!!!

A Month and a Half in The Life... Part 1 - Icon

Where to begin...
It's been awhile since I last wrote in here, but rest assured there are good reasons.

I guess we should start where we left off.
After the book fair we got down to emergency stations to try and get Issue 4 ready on deadline - which we failed, but on the up-side we did get a whole bunch of flyers, business cards and T-Shirts printed up and launched headlong into Icon Role Playing Convention where Outer Limits kindly allowed us to set-up shop for three days.

It was a hell of a weekend as I hadn't been up in Joburg in over 6 months and Vianne and I arrived with less than 24 hours to set up our stand.
So throughout the weekend I had friends and relatives dropping by to say hello and welcome me back to Gauteng.
We also had a few visits from contributors. Amongst those to drop by were Miranda Sherry (writer of Bad Boy Blues - Issue 3), Domenico Pisanti (writer of She Wrote at Night - Issue 1), C Hellisen (writer of The Subtle Thief - Issue 4) and Digby C. Young, (writer of On The Road Again - Issue2).
We also got Digby to autograph his story for Zoobeans from Comicworx, who is a huge fan and was thrilled to meet him.
Another surprise visitor to our stand was DaRC from Otaku who bought a copy of every issue.

All in all it was an absolute blast and wonderful to meet so many of our contributors and fans and to have new fans buy Issue 1 on the Friday and come back to buy the others on the Saturday 'cause they'd finished it already.
The T-Shirts were a great success and I'll put them up for sale in our Online Store very shortly.Above: Our Official Something Wicked T-Shirts - For Sale Soon.
Left: Some fans pose for us.
Right:Vianne makes a sale.