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[leahbobet]

I write to you from the midst of a very special ritual: I write to you during preparations to Write My Feminism Paper and Finish It Before Midnight and Not Leave The House Today or Goof Off No Sir. I know the outside world will go on while I am sequestered alone, meditating upon the Patriarchy, and thus before I retreat into this grave task I give you:

The Results for the Baen Paranormal Romance Contest!

The winner is:

barbarienne, with 1821-2008: An Alternate, Alternate History

In 1821, Napoleon died after a period of illness. Or did he?

It is 2008, and after nearly two hundred years as the living dead, serving in various armies and demonstrating his military genius again and again, Napoleon is tired of fighting. His brilliance on the battlefield is wasted in Iraq, the military is owned by corporations intent on anything but victory, and he's regrown too many body parts to ever want to do it again. He retires to the French Riveria, living off his long-term investments.

But then spunky, sexy, American navy lieutenant Marina DuChamps and her Bayou accent take shore leave in the villa next door. And something is stalking her--something Nap can smell in the wee hours of the night, something that followed her from the Persian Gulf. Something Nap remembers from his campaigns in Egypt, when he first became one of the living dead.

But can he save Mlle. DuChamps without revealling who he is, or losing her again to the war?

...for making me laugh so hard at the plausibility of it seeing print that water came out of my nose.


Honourable Mentions!

ksumnersmith, for the space ninjas.
Dave Nickle, because the Darcy-Brak-Korn bit also made me lose a beverage.
docdad2, for the hot starship lovin'.


New contest when the paper's done!

Comments

[barbarienne.livejournal.com]

Thank you, thank you--I'll be here all week!

Actually, as I was writing it, I thought to myself, Holy crap, this sounds too real. Maybe I ought to write it? Too, too much like real contemporary-adventure-romance novels.

Now you know what crosses my desk. I swear, the whole thing was inspired by my day job. I bet I could sell that novel to my employer.

[leahbobet.livejournal.com]

Yes, you ought to write it. *g* I would soooo buy that.

[cathemery.livejournal.com]

It does sound like it would sell, actually.

Heck, it sounds like it would sell to Hollywood, too.

[tanaise.livejournal.com]

It would only sell to Hollywood if undeath has made Nappy taller and better looking. Hollywood is fussy that way. But if we could get Hugh Jackman in the Nappy role, we're *set*.

[stillsostrange.livejournal.com]

Write it, write it!

[jim0052.livejournal.com]

I love it and it sounds extremely commercial. You should pitch it to your agent and see if she thinks you should do anything with it.

[eiriene.livejournal.com]

E, seriously, that could sell. It's just wacked-out enough that it will catch people's interest, and foremost of all, it's DIFFERENT. If your agent doesn't want it, I do. =)

[pjthompson]

You mean it's not real??????