If you're a published author, the upcoming Malice Domestic has a publicity opportunity that also helps raise money for a good cause. Every year the mystery conference has both live and silent auctions of author goodies with proceeds benefiting literacy programs at the John L. Gildner Regional Facility for Children and Adolescents in Rockville, Maryland. If interested, you can donate books, the opportunity to name a character in a book, a critique of a few chapters of an aspiring author's manuscript, themed baskets, or whatever else strikes your fancy. For more information, contact [email protected] before March 15th. All items have to be shipped no later than April 10th.
The second annual "Scare The Dickens Out of Us" ghost story contest offers $1,000.00 first place, $500.00 second place and $250.00 third place prize money this year for a new, original ghost story (any genre) up to 5,000 words. The contest raises funds for the Friends of the Dr. Eugene Clark Library in Lockhart, Texas (the oldest library in Texas). For details and rules, check out this site. You've still got some time, though: entries will be accepted July 1 to October 1. There's also a Junior "Scare the Dickens Out of Us" contest for kids aged 12 to 18 with a $250.00 first prize and a $5.00 entry fee.
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