SHIPMATES!

Happy Thursday to you, I have some wonderful news today! As most of you know I have a short story contest every July 4^th. This year will be my fourth year and I am absolutely amazed at the overwhelming response I have received from sponsors this year. I started contacting past and potential sponsors two months ago and have had a wonderfully positive response.

Much to my delight Matt from AuthorsDen.com(AD) emailed me back and said that he and AD would love to sponsor the contest! They have added the following prizes to the treasure chests:

Gold Membership to 1st Place (1-year, $119.99 value)

Silver Membership to 2nd Place (1-year, $59.99 value)

Bronze Membership to 3rd Place (1-year, $24.99 value)

I have been a member of AD for more than a few years and I can tell you that if you are a poet or writer, you defiantly want to build a presence on AD. It will expand your reader base and promote you as a serious author. I am very pleased to have AD as a sponsor of this short story writing contest.

I am exceedingly proud to announce that they first place treasure chest has a retail value of over $400.00! For a contest that is free to enter, you can’t beat it. The other perk is that all approved submissions will appear in the 4^th Annual Summer Beach Bash Short Story Contest Ebook. Everyone who has an approved entry will be published! All for free! It pays to be a pirate shipmate.

Please take a moment to visit the sponsors and send check out the treasure chests.  Then start to write that story! Full Contest Details.

I am looking forward to reading you!!!

4th Annual Dread Pirate
Summer Beach Bash Short Story Contest Treasure Chest Inventory!
2006

The Sponsors

DPebooks.com
Ebooks to Treasure!

MoesHaven

Zakas

Hard Rock Lovers audio book
The Biggest Production in Audio Book History

The Brigands
Here be pirate music for ye entertainment and diversion

The Bardic Web
A community for writers, Bardic Web provides environments for Role-Play and Round Table Writing. (Co-Operative Writing through co-posts and discussion) Head straight for the Adventure section to dive into swashbuckling Pirate stories, or travel though the rest of the alphabet from Erotica to Science Fiction, we have something for everyone and encourage one and all to ‘Weave the Tales of Your Imagination’. The lucky winner of the Summer Beach Bash will receive a year’s Journeyman Bard subscription to Bardic Web, a seventy dollar value which includes: Character Blogs
Private Messaging
Ability to create book and static pages.
Bardic Web Email Account
Multiple Character IDs

WordFaery
Poetry was meant to be read aloud. A year after release, The Eclectic CD is still rocking the spoken word and poetry charts at mp3.com WordFaery, not your English teacher's poetry.

The Hiss Quarterly
Official zine of the Summer Beach Bash

Studio Soleil
Studio Soleil is the personal gallery of Tracy Adams. Studio Soleil has a large collection of photography including : Black and white, Infrared, nature and English architecture. Tracy also transforms dreams into reality with her surreal digital art. Studio Soleil: a dreamer's dream.

AuthorsDen.com

AuthorsDen is the most vibrant community of authors and readers online!  We make the discovery and purchase of information useful, direct and personal. AD: Where authors and readers come together.

The Benefactors

Diva Christine B.

Terri Verrette

The Treasure Chests!

1st Place Treasure Chest:

Beach Bag compliments of DPebooks

Authorsden.com Gold Membership (1-year, $119.99 value)

Hard Rock Lovers audio book by Paul Kyriazi (The Biggest Production in Audio Book History)
Your writing will be spotlighted in The Hiss Quarterly premier e-zine.
Journeyman Bard Subscription to the Bardic Web! * (1-year, $70.00 value)
Satin Hands care package by Mary Kay
On Deck Techno by DJ Dread
Illegitimus non Carborundum by Zakas
The Brigands début CD (Sea Shanties!)
English Men of Letter Vol. 1 by Moeshaven
If Not US, Who? by Moeshaven
Out With the Old by Moeshaven

2nd Place Treasure Chest

Beach Bag compliments of DPebooks

Authorsden.com Silver Membership (1-year, $59.99 value)

Hard Rock Lovers audio book by Paul Kyriazi (The Biggest Production in Audio Book History)
8 inch print from any of the prints available at either of Tracy's shops. (1 or 2!)
On Deck Techno by DJ Dread
The Brigands début CD (Sea Shanties!)
Out With the Old by Moeshaven
Introducing Moeshaven

3rd Place Treasure Chest

Beach Bag compliments of DPebooks

Authorsden.com Bronze Membership (1-year, $24.99 value)

Hard Rock Lovers audio book by Paul Kyriazi (The Biggest Production in Audio Book History)
On Deck Techno by DJ Dread
Introducing Moeshaven