Comments on: . . . and when they announced the first runner-up, we all started screaming! http://blog.booklistonline.com/2008/10/10/and-when-they-announced-the-first-runner-up-we-all-started-screaming/ Behind the Book Reviews--The Official Blog of Booklist Online Sat, 30 Mar 2013 16:38:07 +0000 hourly 1 http://wordpress.org/?v=3.5.1 By: Keir http://blog.booklistonline.com/2008/10/10/and-when-they-announced-the-first-runner-up-we-all-started-screaming/comment-page-1/#comment-289760 Keir Tue, 14 Oct 2008 13:58:48 +0000 http://blog.booklistonline.com/2008/10/10/and-when-they-announced-the-first-runner-up-we-all-started-screaming/#comment-289760 Thanks so much, Chad. It was one of those ideas that just made me slap my forehead and smile with anticipation. I could use more of them!

]]> By: Chad Sanborn http://blog.booklistonline.com/2008/10/10/and-when-they-announced-the-first-runner-up-we-all-started-screaming/comment-page-1/#comment-289521 Chad Sanborn Mon, 13 Oct 2008 21:04:51 +0000 http://blog.booklistonline.com/2008/10/10/and-when-they-announced-the-first-runner-up-we-all-started-screaming/#comment-289521 Keir, I enjoyed your story immensely.

Hilarious premise, the theft and fencing of conceptual art, and one you carried out quite nicely.

Congratulations!

]]> By: Keir http://blog.booklistonline.com/2008/10/10/and-when-they-announced-the-first-runner-up-we-all-started-screaming/comment-page-1/#comment-289489 Keir Mon, 13 Oct 2008 19:41:42 +0000 http://blog.booklistonline.com/2008/10/10/and-when-they-announced-the-first-runner-up-we-all-started-screaming/#comment-289489 You’re too kind. However–and I am speaking purely hypothetically here–if I were to be robbed, wouldn’t that be the appropriate outcome of a crime fiction contest?

The other stories were quite deserving. I’m just happy to have mine alongside them.

]]> By: MarianLibrarian http://blog.booklistonline.com/2008/10/10/and-when-they-announced-the-first-runner-up-we-all-started-screaming/comment-page-1/#comment-289394 MarianLibrarian Mon, 13 Oct 2008 14:01:38 +0000 http://blog.booklistonline.com/2008/10/10/and-when-they-announced-the-first-runner-up-we-all-started-screaming/#comment-289394 Had I been there I’d have been screaming. I’d probably have been escorted from the room, too, after starting a chant of “Robbedrobbedrobbed.”

]]> By: The Wandering Reader http://blog.booklistonline.com/2008/10/10/and-when-they-announced-the-first-runner-up-we-all-started-screaming/comment-page-1/#comment-289045 The Wandering Reader Sun, 12 Oct 2008 17:30:35 +0000 http://blog.booklistonline.com/2008/10/10/and-when-they-announced-the-first-runner-up-we-all-started-screaming/#comment-289045 Congratulations! That is quite an accomplishment. :) I didn’t know that ‘Time Out Chicago’ sponsored a contest like this! And to have it judged by the Random House/Vintage Books editorial staff… that is very impressive; you should be very proud!

Congratulations again,

- The Wandering Reader

]]> By: Keir http://blog.booklistonline.com/2008/10/10/and-when-they-announced-the-first-runner-up-we-all-started-screaming/comment-page-1/#comment-288991 Keir Sun, 12 Oct 2008 11:28:03 +0000 http://blog.booklistonline.com/2008/10/10/and-when-they-announced-the-first-runner-up-we-all-started-screaming/#comment-288991 Thanks, Pete–although, for the record, I did say, “heartening,” not “surprising.” I’m well aware of TOC’s support for short fiction, having had a short story in their Halloween issue last year. But I do hope Messinger’s amazing ethic rubs off. I always enjoy finding fiction and poetry in the feature pages of any publication.

]]> By: Pete http://blog.booklistonline.com/2008/10/10/and-when-they-announced-the-first-runner-up-we-all-started-screaming/comment-page-1/#comment-288817 Pete Sat, 11 Oct 2008 16:16:24 +0000 http://blog.booklistonline.com/2008/10/10/and-when-they-announced-the-first-runner-up-we-all-started-screaming/#comment-288817 Congrats, Third Place Writer Dude. Actually it’s hardly surprising that a “general interest magazine” like TOC takes an interest in fiction, given that their books editor is Jonathan Messinger, literature cheerleader and tireless man-about-town.

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