{"id":755,"date":"2013-05-10T17:26:18","date_gmt":"2013-05-10T21:26:18","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.ammatte.ca\/?p=755"},"modified":"2013-09-13T08:50:03","modified_gmt":"2013-09-13T12:50:03","slug":"alicorn-2108-champion","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.ammatte.ca\/?p=755","title":{"rendered":"Alicorn 2108 – Champion"},"content":{"rendered":"

In April, I submitted my sci-fi short story about spacefaring unicorns to an online independent authors competition<\/a>.<\/p>\n

Readers were invited to read each of the seven stories, then vote for their favourite.<\/p>\n

At the end of the month, my short story, Alicorn 2108, had gathered nearly 65% of the vote – for the win -, and numerous positive comments from readers, some of which I’ll copy here:<\/p>\n

\u00ab\u00a0I did read all the stories, and there is really no contest. [Alicorn 2108] is far and away the best (even though I am not generally a fan of science fiction.)\u00a0\u00bb \u2013 Ron P.<\/p>\n

\u00ab\u00a0[Alicorn 2108] was the best by far \u2013 a good story by any standards.\u00a0\u00bb \u2013 Dave M.<\/p>\n

\u00ab\u00a0I loved [Alicorn 2108] \u2013 I also loved one of the others but I can\u2019t remember the title \u2013 these are interesting & up-and-coming writers. [A.M. Matte] has a great imagination & talent. Also excellent language.\u00a0\u00bb \u2013 Helen G.<\/p>\n

\u00ab\u00a0Wow\u00a0 I am impressed – I love the flow of [A.M. Matte’s] writing.\u00a0 She really takes you there.\u00a0 And the votes – everyone else is majorly impressed. \u00bb \u2013 Sheila B.<\/p>\n

Thanks to D.R. Racey for holding the competition, and thanks to all who read and voted.<\/p>\n

\"Competition<\/a>
Competition results \/ R\u00e9sultats du concours<\/figcaption><\/figure>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

In April, I submitted my sci-fi short story about spacefaring unicorns to an online independent authors competition. Readers were invited to read each of the seven stories, then vote for their favourite. At the end of the month, my short<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[1],"tags":[364,363,393,392,391,371,396,395,252,394],"language":[7],"class_list":["post-755","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-uncategorized","tag-alicorn-2108","tag-competition","tag-d-r-racey","tag-indie","tag-online","tag-sci-fi","tag-short","tag-space","tag-story","tag-unicorn","language-en_ca"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.ammatte.ca\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/755","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.ammatte.ca\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.ammatte.ca\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.ammatte.ca\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.ammatte.ca\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=755"}],"version-history":[{"count":6,"href":"https:\/\/www.ammatte.ca\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/755\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":876,"href":"https:\/\/www.ammatte.ca\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/755\/revisions\/876"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.ammatte.ca\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=755"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.ammatte.ca\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=755"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.ammatte.ca\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=755"},{"taxonomy":"language","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.ammatte.ca\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Flanguage&post=755"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}