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SPSFC Submissions

The first annual Self-Published Science Fiction Competition is about to begin!

On July 1st, at noon EST (9am PST), author applications will open.

Have your files ready (an .epub or .mobi file and your cover art). You’ll need to answer a questionnaire so we know a little bit about you and your work, and you’ll have to make sure your book qualifies (word count, content guidelines, correct genre).

Over the course of the next eleven months, the first 300 novels entered will be whittled down to ten finalists and one winner. To read more about the competition, click here.

Best of luck, everyone!

**UPDATE**

Wowsers. It took a single day to get 300 submissions. We are going to leave the application window open until we get 400 entrants, and then we will close the process and start sorting and assigning these books to reviewers.

Thank you and best of luck to all who entered! More soon.

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15 responses to “SPSFC Submissions”

  1. Scott Robinson Avatar
    Scott Robinson

    Arghhh… You’re going to make me get up at 2am in Australia? Oh well. At least I’m on holiday so I won’t also have to get up for work.

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  2. Scott Robinson Avatar
    Scott Robinson

    Argh… You’re going to make me get up at 2am in Australia? Oh well, at least I’m on holiday, so I don’t have to also get up for work.

    SPSFC, here I come!

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  3. Phillip Murrell Avatar
    Phillip Murrell

    I’ll see you at noon!

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  4. Jim Brumbaugh Avatar
    Jim Brumbaugh

    so where is the form? I cannot get it to open.

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  5. Dennis Ideue Avatar
    Dennis Ideue

    I’m more than a little disappointed.
    I just submitted for the competition, but it wasn’t mentioned that .mobi format was a requirement. You specifically state;
    “Ebooks will need to be sent in .mobi or .epub format.”
    It took days to generate the .EPUB document. I had to learn new tools, etc. to do so. I focus on the printed book, and worked with Amazon tools for my ebook. When I tried to export from Calibre (A new tool) to .MOBI, I got chapter salad.

    If you were going to make .MOBI a requirement and .EPUB only an option, you should have said so.

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    1. Vincent Vale Avatar
      Vincent Vale

      I’m sure you are fine. They probably had to make one required and one optional on the form. I just uploaded my epub on both sections.

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    2. Marcus Alexander Hart Avatar
      Marcus Alexander Hart

      Dennis, if you have an epub file you like, you can use Amazon’s Kindle Previewer desktop app to convert it to a mobi. It’s free and it produces much nicer mobi files than Calibre does.

      https://www.amazon.com/gp/feature.html?ie=UTF8&docId=1000765261

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  6. Andy Crawford Avatar
    Andy Crawford

    Just entered, thank you so much for this competition! Will there be a way to verify that our entry was properly submitted and received, so we can make any changes if necessary before the deadline? Thanks again.

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  7. R.Z. Held Avatar
    R.Z. Held

    Hi! My mobi file was too big and while I uploaded something I compressed quickly, I’d rather replace it with a file that was made specifically to be smaller. I tried editing the form response, but it won’t let you replace files. Should I submit a new form response? I don’t want to lose my place in line or seem like I’m maliciously trying to double-enter.

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    1. Joseph Rhea Avatar
      Joseph Rhea

      Can you tell me why there is a 10Mb limit on the .mobi file? My novel is 600 pages and my .mobi file is 17Mb. So am I excluded?

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      1. Vincent Vale Avatar
        Vincent Vale

        Do you have a lot of images? If so, you probably need to compress them.

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  8. Marcus Alexander Hart Avatar
    Marcus Alexander Hart

    Entered! So excited to be a part of this! :-)

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  9. Joseph Rhea Avatar
    Joseph Rhea

    Entered!
    I had an issue with my .mobi file being huge (17mb) with no internal images, but realized that I was using the one KDP gives you for reviewing your file. So I found a free site to convert my original docx to mobi format and received a tiny file that appears perfect.

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  10. Harald Johnson Avatar
    Harald Johnson

    Just submitted.
    But earlier I had hit the Reviewer/Blogger Entry Form by mistake. Please disregard that one. I’m submitting as an Author.
    Thanks!

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  11. J.F. Williams Avatar
    J.F. Williams

    It looks like I’m out already because I used the wrong filename for the cover. Good luck to everyone else. Maybe next time. And new applicants: read all the form instructions carefully! Filenames must be “Title – Author”

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