Sometimes a thing snowballs, and you just gotta roll with it. I posted a comment in a thread in my writer forum about "I think pink snowbunnies will ski in hell first". A couple of hours later, one of our great resident book cover designers replied with the graphic below.


Pink Snowbunnies In Hell

It deserves a book, don't you think?

So, in honor of ditching my day job, and not letting what is apparently my one great line and Glendon's greater graphic languish in obscurity in a writer forum grammar thread, I'm going to sponsor a Pink Snowbunnies in Hell Flash-Fiction Anthology.

I'll pay to turn the bunny into a cover, and for editing, and take care of getting it assembled, formatted, and published. All proceeds donated to a charity of the contributing authors' choosing (I'm thinking it will go up as a $0.99 anthology, so it's definitely not about the money).

Submission Guidelines:

1) Flash Fiction - 100-1000 words
2) Must contain some variation of the suddenly famous "pink snowbunnies will ski in hell" phrase
3) Given the cover, humor would be great, and PG13 unless there's a dang good reason for crossing that line
4) Entries will be judged by a panel of at least three judges (for the good of writer community relations, I think I'll be keeping them anonymous)
5) Entry deadline, June 15
6) Email submissions in Word .doc format to deborageary@gmail.com

I'm hoping this sounds like fun, and not too much work. To get a sense of whether this is going to fly, can you reply below if you think you might be interested in submitting? Also, I'd love to encourage aspiring authors to give this a try :).