Baen Books - Greatest Hero of All Time contest
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Posted on: 2011-03-24 18:00 in Comic and Hero-Villain Culture
Invasion is City of Heroes with the serial numbers filed off.
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Invasion got it's start as a group of podcasts put together by Misty and several fellow players of COH. They filed the numbers off of COH and make it a bit more generic but really this got its start as delightful roleplaying carried on between a writer and aspiring writers. |
Originally Posted by SerialBeggar
FYI: http://www.baen.com/contests.asp
Mercedes Lackey was a COH player in the past. I don't know if she's still around. Maybe Black Pebble/Marketing can work something up for cross promotion. |
Eventually they got enough story for a trilogy and so looked to see if they could sell it anywhere.
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The podcasts still exist and can be found at http://secretworldchronicle.com/
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Originally Posted by TerraDraconis
Invasion got it's start as a group of podcasts put together by Misty and several fellow players of COH. They filed the numbers off of COH and make it a bit more generic but really this got its start as delightful roleplaying carried on between a writer and aspiring writers.
Eventually they got enough story for a trilogy and so looked to see if they could sell it anywhere. |
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FYI: http://www.baen.com/contests.asp
GREATEST SUPERHERO OF ALL TIME CONTEST OPEN FOR ENTRIES
Contestants Invited to Make a Case for Favorite Superhero of All Time as Baen Books Promotes Mercedes Lackey helmed Superhero Saga, Invasion.
WAKE FOREST, NORTH CAROLINA --Baen Books is calling for readers to make a case for their favorite superhero of all time. The science fiction, fantasy and action-adventure publisher is sponsoring the contest as part of a promotion for the March 2011 release of superhero saga Invasion: Book One of the Secret World Chronicle.
Invasion is a collaborative shared-world extravaganza set in a semi-retro alternate America. The book is helmed by SF and fantasy bestseller Mercedes Lackey and features a cast of fascinating mutant heroes who must face a Nazi-like super-menace from beyond time and space.
The March “Greatest Superhero” contest features a prize of a five free e-books which will go to the entrant or entrants who make the most compelling case for their all-time favorite super-dude or dudette, in five hundred words or less.
“Any superhero is fair game, whatever his or her origin or milieu,” says Baen Books Publisher, Toni Weisskopf. “Mutants, aliens, magic—you make the case.”
Weisskopf adds that entrants might consider the rules and special limitation of the hero’s world and the kind of competition the hero must face, was well.
“It could be that the true superheroes come out when a supervillain nemesis is as powerful and interesting in his or her own right as the hero is,” says Weisskopf. “We like our greatest heroes to be up to the toughest tasks, of course!”
Readers should email their entries to: info@baen.com with “Greatest Superhero Contest” in the subject line. Entries are due by March 30, 2011. Winners will be decided and awards announced in early April.
Mercedes Lackey was a COH player in the past. I don't know if she's still around. Maybe Black Pebble/Marketing can work something up for cross promotion.
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