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Yes! I've been anxiously awaiting the first Lunar Awards of 2024!

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I'm glad you didn't have to wait too long!

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For The First Chapter category.

Chapter 1 of my dark fantasy serial “The Last Daughter of Wolves”.

https://open.substack.com/pub/kathrineelaine/p/the-last-daughter-of-wolves-1?r=2rhgsy&utm_campaign=post&utm_medium=web&showWelcome=true

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Entry verified. ✅ Good luck, Kathrine!

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I would like to go ahead and submit "The Question" for the First Chapter category; it's the first chapter in my new superhero serial, "Quarks of the Heart":

https://indianamichael.substack.com/p/1-the-question

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Entry verified. ✅ Good luck, Michael!

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For the Short Story category: 'You Go First'

"Four opposable digits and excellent spatial awareness good.

Hairless and weak space-sick humans bad."

https://reiditwrite.substack.com/i/140508260/you-go-first

Thank you for organising this spec fic jamboree!

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Entry verified. ✅ Good luck, Johnathan, glad to have you aboard!

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Thank you, Brian. Good to be here.

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I would like to submit "The mountains around Hume" for short story category.

Hope you enjoy the story.

https://storybyisha.substack.com/p/mountains-around-hume

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Entry verified. ✅ Good luck, Isha!

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Hi Brian! After much internal hemming and hawing, I have decided to enter a First Chapter submission. What the heck! My serial is a crime novel set in the year 2048.

https://open.substack.com/pub/tdalton/p/the-education-of-lisa-rose-chapter?r=2nx65t&utm_medium=ios&utm_campaign=post

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Entry verified. ✅ Good luck, T. Dalton! No need to hem or haw about it. 😁

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Hello! Putting Chapter 1 of "The Illusion of Fear" in for the First Chapter category (gaslamp fantasy with art theft and a little queer romance on the side). Thanks for the opportunity :)

https://kelefox.substack.com/p/the-illusion-of-fear-chapter-1

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Entry verified. ✅ Good luck, Kel!

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Thank you!

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Submission for the short story contest: "Contact Tracing" - a near future science fiction story about the measures public health might insist on to deal with really nasty diseases.

https://gallagherstories.substack.com/p/contact-tracing

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Entry verified. ✅ Good luck, Karl!

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What the heck, I'll throw a hat into the ring. Competition seems fierce for the First Chapter category, so let's make it a little more so! This is Chapter 1 of my ongoing fantasy adventure mystery, "The Castle on the Hill."

https://talesofcalamityandtriumph.substack.com/p/the-castle-on-the-hill-ch-1

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Entry verified. ✅ Good luck, The Man Behind the Screen!

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I'd like to submit for the First Chapter category. This is Part 1 of my sci-fi short story "Strange Harvest":

https://jhanlon.substack.com/p/strange-harvest-part-i

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Entry verified. ✅ Good luck, James!

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Very excited to participate in the First Chapter Category of the Lunar Awards Season Five.

Below is the first entry of my story "The Synod's Gambit". It's about an ambitious necromancer who, after the successful resurrection of a courtesan, finds himself at the heart of a deadly conspiracy that threatens to shake the foundations of the Kingdom:

https://likeantennastoheaven.substack.com/p/the-synods-gambit-1

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Entry verified. ✅ Good luck, Thomas!

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First Chapter Category

Cataclysm is my dystopian serial

https://talesofkarnum.substack.com/p/cataclysm

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Entry verified. ✅ Good luck, Althea!

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Just to clarify, Brian:

A short story must be newly written and posted between jan 7 and Jan28

A first chapter could have been posted any time, even last year?

Is that correct?

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Correct!

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Thanks! Got it.

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Short Story entry - "Memory"

https://ghostsinglass.substack.com/p/memory

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Entry verified. ✅ Good luck, Everett!

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I've returned in the nick of time! :) I'm adding "The Servers" for your consideration 🙏

https://amyletter.substack.com/p/the-servers

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Entry verified. ✅ Good luck, Amy!

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Okay Brian, I am back on the Lunar Awards train.

Happy to report my entry to the Short Story category:

https://blog.pornnamepseudonym.com/p/the-host

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Entry verified. ✅ Good luck, Clancy!

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