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sandstormer

rrickyuk wrote: »

No, I have.

none of us have:p so there
Name The Planet update
The competition has taken a new twist as Mel has decided to use the winning name in the title of book two. So far we many thousands of entries and a lot are sadly duplicated. As yet nothing sticks out well enough to not only use in the title, but win you the £10,000 prize. We will keep scanning the entries, but are now considering extending the deadline to give you all a fair chance of being chosen. So, give it a try and remember the chosen name will feature in the title, along with the huge prize and I am sure some words regarding yourself at the front of the book.

avstar

sandstormer wrote: »

none of us have:p so there
Name The Planet update
The competition has taken a new twist as Mel has decided to use the winning name in the title of book two. So far we many thousands of entries and a lot are sadly duplicated. As yet nothing sticks out well enough to not only use in the title, but win you the £10,000 prize. We will keep scanning the entries, but are now considering extending the deadline to give you all a fair chance of being chosen. So, give it a try and remember the chosen name will feature in the title, along with the huge prize and I am sure some words regarding yourself at the front of the book.

I'm getting a bit cheesed off with the organisers of this competition. :mad:

They keep moving the closing dates to suit themselves, the 'win a mini' comp was supposed to end in December, then was moved to May, now the Name The Planet comp has been moved indefinitely...bah.

It all seems a bit fishy to me, and anyway - the book is pants so you can't tell me there wasn't a suitable planet name in all the thousands of entries they got, sounds like they want to string out this comp till the 2nd book is ready to publish.

Wombat21

sandstormer wrote: »

by way i don't know how to get their proper site info on to here let one of you clever techies do it or i'd completely it mess up

And the owner of the site is .......
Registry Whois
Domain Name: 23rdcenturychildren.com

domain: 23rdcenturychildren.com
created: 13-Apr-2007
last-changed: 14-Apr-2008
registration-expiration: 13-Apr-2009

registrant-firstname: Mel
registrant-lastname: Hogan
registrant-street1: 39 Foley Road
registrant-pcode: KT10 0LU
registrant-city: Esher
registrant-ccode: GB
registrant-phone: +44.1372467349
registrant-email: info@uglytoad.co.uk

On the site he does mention (in an interview) that he has never read a book in his life :eek: :rotfl:
and the winner, picked at random, is - Mrs. Hogan :rotfl:

Wombat21

Having a bit more of a search I notice - Children of the 23rd Century published by Athena Press

Athena Press - an author-funded book publisher dedicated to the publication of books by new authors :rolleyes:

emma_leigh

Did anyone get an email regarding the name the planet competition?
I received an email way after I submitted my name forr the planet and it said this:

[FONT=&quot]Hi There. Great name, it could be worth £10,000!!! Many thanks for entering our competition, your details have been successfully logged. <o></o>[/FONT]
[FONT=&quot]<o></o>Keep in touch with this and many more exciting updates at 23rdcenturychildren.com
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Did you all get this?

avstar

Yes I got this reply too....still not holding out much hope :rotfl:

rrickyuk

I got that too.

sweetbutternut

I submitted more than one entry for the planet name and I bought and read the book cover to cover as well. (Maybe I disqualified myself! But there was nothing in the Terms and Conditions for the Name the Planet comp that said you could only submit one entry) and I didn't receive a confirmation e-mail/e-mails. I shall be FURIOUS :mad: if my planet name is chosen and my contribution is not acknowleged.

Mandles

I can't keep up with this comp & i posted it! Has it finished now? it says 19th may and its the 20th.

sandstormer

Mandles wrote: »

I can't keep up with this comp & i posted it! Has it finished now? it says 19th may and its the 20th.

The win a mini one has finished i think as he hasn't said anymore about extending that again:rolleyes: YET:rolleyes: let us know if any of you get a phone call to answer the question to win the mini and what he asks it will be interesting to see what he finally says is the correct answer .:rolleyes: I'm not sure if the name the planet has finished or not because his last news up-date on that said something like he didn't like any of names submited so far or they were not original enough so he was THINKING of extending the date to that again but i have looked on his site and nothing else has been said so guess we'll have to wait and see