Yeah, a hereoine contest... I should probably submit my character Luciami from my stories "Princess Of The Damned", "Disturbed Leader", and "Doomsday Dance." I'd submit others like Kayame and Lora, but with their powers, and personalities I don't think they'd make the cut. Oh heck I don't think Luciami will make the cut with her powers, and personality. But I'mma give it a shot anyway.

Yes I have dreams, and fate seems to place me among others with dreams like mine.

They're just looking for new and creative ideas, so don't be afraid to submit away. The more you submit the more you have a chance to hit on something that interest them.

The big thing I would focus on is to best describe the character and story in a paragraph. You only have 5 or 6 sentences to grab their interest.

I wonder how many people will be entering, It will be interesting to see what kind of heroines are created.

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I've never has a heart, Never know love.

Yet you expect me to care, to care about you.

Now you're staring at me, You stare at me as your love fades to grey.

What did you expect, Did you expectg me to love, love you with a heart I've never had?

I'm entering. That's all I know.

Five to six sentences... That's just perfect... Oh well... Here goes nothing.( Seriously.)

Yes I have dreams, and fate seems to place me among others with dreams like mine.

The new thing is an ordinary person caught up in extrodinary circumstances.

I have a tendency to wear my mind on my sleeve, I have a history of losing my shirt...

Yeah, but that's not the point....

Yes I have dreams, and fate seems to place me among others with dreams like mine.

I'm almost done with my first pitch. :)

Everybody remember that your pitch needs to be a BRIEF (5-6 sentences) paragraph summarizing the plot of your potential mini-series, which means you have to explain the beginning, middle, and ending of your story. Don't treat it like a teaser: you're talking to the people who will be publishing it, not to the consumer market. ;)

Just thought I'd throw that out there since I was bit confused about that at the beginning myself (and the post at Newsarama explaining these things is now HUGE).

FINAL CALL FOR WHO WANTS TO CREATE A SUPER-HEROINE SHADOWLINE CONTEST
From Jim Valentino

With less than two weeks left to go (final warning, there's still time to send yours in!), we've received hundreds of submissions. Of those, some were marked as potential semi-finalists, some were starred as runners-up, the rest were deleted and all were responded to with a confirmation of receipt.

There were tons of Pandora's, Greek (and other pantheon) Gods, celebrity heroes, sibling heroes, teams, government conspiracies and agencies, aliens, dysfunctional families, lesbians (down boys), pregnant, widowed, unwed mom heroines and second-generation heroes. We saw a lot of duplicate names, origins, powers, etc.including many names of pre-existing characters. More than even we anticipated. So if anyone sees a winning entry that looks similar to yours, you can chalk it up to syncronicity. Similarities abounded.

The synopses of the potential semi-finalists (no more than 50) will all be sent to Jim blind--that is, without the name of the creator attached--and from those he'll select ten. Only the names of the ten (10) semi-finalists will be listed at Newsarama on February 4, not the names of their super-heroine. Semi-finalists will be warned that if they reveal the name of their entry to the public, they will be immediately disqualified.

The ten semi-finalists will then be asked to send in a script for the FIRST five pages of their story. From these scripts, Shadowline will choose five finalists. Decisions made by Shadowline are final, and not debatable.

The five finalists will each have their original synopsis posted at Kristen Simon's forum on the "Who Wants to Create a Super-Heroine" message board ( www.kris-korner.com/forum) on March 10 where they can be reviewed by anyone interested in voting. A link will also be provided in the next announcement from Newsarama. You will need to register to vote. One vote per IP address will be allowed (to discourage ballot box stuffing). All synopses will be posted sans creator names and again, any finalist that reveals their
identity will be immediately disqualified. Polls will close on April 4 at noon, Central Standard Time.

The winning entry will be announced at Newsarama on April 28, along with Franchesco's initial concept art. Thereafter we will be posting progress reports and pages on a regular basis at the message board.

Click here for the original announcement and contest details.

This contest is fully run and administered by Shadowline. Newsarama in no way influences the outcome or plays any role in the decision process.

I so want to enter! XD I'm sending my entry in soon!

Scottyx2...Where Secrecy and Magic Collide!

I have a good idea, but it's way too close to waste my time, wish I'd heard of this earlier.

=D

Seriously?
I GOTTA TRY IT!
I probably won't win, but I can try, can't I?

People in stone houses should not throw glass.

Kurenai: I wouldn't say it's too close to the deadline for you to try. You're only allowed to send in one 5-6 sentence paragraph, anyway.

O, yea. Well, I can't think of what I can POSSIBLY squish into 5-6 setinces!

People in stone houses should not throw glass.

Just a reminder that this is the last day to get in your entry. You can't win if you don't try and there's nothing stopping you from trying.

I don't think I got nominated as a Semi-finalist, because I hadn't recieved anything... Oh well, simply wasn't meant to be... On to other things...

Yes I have dreams, and fate seems to place me among others with dreams like mine.

Not so fast. The only thing you should have gotten at this point was an e-mail that they did receive your entry. Since there are a lot of entries it may take a day or so to hear back. If it's been a day or so and you haven't heard back, it's okay to do a simple follow up e-mail to make sure they got your entry.

That said, all Semi-finalists will be announced in the following manner:
"Only the names of the ten (10) semi-finalists will be listed at Newsarama on February 4, not the names of their super-heroine."

I sent mine in and got my confirmation yesterday evening. I can't wait until Monday. In the words of some random boarder at Newsarama:

"My ego's either going to implode or explode on Monday."

x3

Now feel like an idiot, I reread the e-mail they sent stating that "After" the dead-line date for submission they'd inform the ten semi-finalists if they made it... I still don't think I made it though... Besides how am I gonna get ahold of the newarama info?

Yes I have dreams, and fate seems to place me among others with dreams like mine.

I'll repost the winners here.

Thanks alot! Do you know if they'll post the winners on their website?

Yes I have dreams, and fate seems to place me among others with dreams like mine.

Supposedly, the winners will be posted sometime today on http://www.kris-korner.com/forum/index.php?board=38.0 ;)

--All of you who entered. I couldn't myself, but know that I'm rooting for EVERYONE on the board.

Go MPers, go!!!!!!

.:suzu-chan/killijoy/Joeys Cupcake:.
.:"No time for goodbyes," he said, as he faded away. "It's hard to imagine, but one day you'll end up like me." Then he said, "If you want to stay alive, hold on for your life.":.

Well I'm glad that's over, and done with... On to bigger things....

Yes I have dreams, and fate seems to place me among others with dreams like mine.

WHO WANTS TO CREATE A SUPERHEROINE SEMI-FINALISTS ANNOUNCED

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From Shadowline

Below is a list of the individuals who have been chosen as the Top 10 semi-finalists in the Who Wants To Create A Super-Heroine contest.

They have each been sent a letter of instructions, among which is that they are not to identify their winning submission anywhere (we clearly defined what that meant in the letter). They are to turn in the first 5 pages of their script by a specified deadline. If they disregard this or any of the other instructions they’ve been sent, they will be immediately disqualified from the competition. If eliminated, there will be no replacement due to time constraints.

If you entered the contest and your name is not listed below, we thank you for your participation and hope that we can count on you to vote for the winner and support the book when it is released, in a show of solidarity.

The five finalists’ synopses will be posted without creator names attached on the following message board: www.kris-korner.com/forums. Further rules, regulations and timelines will posted there as well.

Synopses will be posted on March 10th, 2008. Voting will begin on March 10th at 12 noon (CST) and end on April 4th at 12 noon (CST).

We thank everyone who entered, and especially Matt and Mike at Newsarama for all of their help and support. And, of course, Franchesco! who will bring the whole thing to life!

The semi-finalists are (in alphabetical order):

Tom Arguello
Corey Brotherson
Kat Cahill
DeWayne Feenstra
John Karoauk
Dirk Manning
Rev. C. Edward Sellner
Joe Sergi
Aaron Settle
Kristopher Waddell

Thank you again for your participation and interest,

Jim Valentino, Kris Simon
Shadowline

This contest is fully run and administered by Shadowline. Newsarama in no way influences the outcome or plays any role in the decision process.

So who wants to see what I pitched :)

Wait, are any of those you guys?

.:suzu-chan/killijoy/Joeys Cupcake:.
.:"No time for goodbyes," he said, as he faded away. "It's hard to imagine, but one day you'll end up like me." Then he said, "If you want to stay alive, hold on for your life.":.

Nope... Well at least my name's not there... Which means I have alot of work to do...

Yes I have dreams, and fate seems to place me among others with dreams like mine.

No, that's no one on here, I don't think, Killi. Ah well. I'm going to be self-publishing in March anyway (oooh-teaser!!). What disappoints me the most is that only one of the semi-finalists seems to be a woman. ;p

David: Duh! Let's see that sucker posted! I'll post my pitch up, too. :D

Here's my unworthy entry! :D?
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Renee Otalpe is a liaison between the power-players of this world and the inhabitants of a surrealistic parallel dimension. These inhabitants, known as "Ideals", such as Courage and Innocence, have been a source of human inspiration since time immemorial. While engaged in a hunt (commissioned by a US government agency) for a specific piece of knowledge within this dimension, Renee learns that there are other humans who share her abilities and that a movement is being organized to seek out and destroy the Ideals. This will limit the human scope of consciousness. After being attacked by a human assassin sent to kill Ideals, Renee only escapes with her life because several of the Ideals come to her aid. She vows to return the favor by doing whatever necessary to protect the Ideals from their would-be murderers. The final confrontation takes place once she tracks down the assassin again and engages her in the first successful battle of her new alter-ego's career.

That's not so bad... I would've love to see it actually... But I feel my idea wasn't good enough either... Here it is:

I am proudly going to submit my protagonist Luciami
from my story "Princess Of The Damned." Long Story
short, Luciami is the Anti-christ, born in Hell, and
raised among the humans, by adopted human parents. In
doing so, and having no memories of being in Hell for
a century as an infant, Luciami thinks that she's a
mutant.( Mainly from watching X-men as a explanational
reference of her powers.) At age 10 Luciami is
attacked by a catholic monk, chased into a museum,
where she sees a painting of Lucifer. Upon taking note
of her resemblance to the person in the painting,
Luciami weeps then vows to free herself from all ties
with Lucifer. So far as her personality goes, Luciami
is a walking contridiction. She can be meek, and shy,
but when the situation calls for it, she can be very
brave. In a sense Luciami is somewhat of a tomboy due
to her demonic nature of being rough, and enjoying
battle, and destruction. But despite that, she is
mostly compassionate, and cares for her friends, and
is very protective of her highschool human friend, a
shy gothic/emo girl named Anna.

You can shoot me later if you want, I'm growing use to it...

Yes I have dreams, and fate seems to place me among others with dreams like mine.

I'm a little slow apparently. If you want to vote on the finalists you can go to:

http://www.kris-korner.com/forum/index.php?topic=984.0

But anyways on to my first pitch.

A young teacher struggles to do more in all aspects in her life. She wants to help her students in all ways, from school issues to personal issues that range from drug abuse to child abuse. She also wants more out of her personal life with her new relationship with a man she thought was "the one". This is all complicated when she finds out that she has an auto-immune disease in her digestive system. An experimental treatment is used to help treat her and while it does nothing to help her auto-immune disease, an unnoticed side affect is that the rest of her system is "enhanced". While reveling in her new found abilities, she inadvertently finds about the student ran drug ring in town. With everyone involved being inexperienced and a tad naive, the teacher gets hurt and finds out herself in the hospital once again. She tries to confide in her boyfriend in what happened and her thoughts about maybe using her newfound "gift' to try and help other kids in needs. The boyfriend is sympathetic in with her desires to help others, but he can reconcile that with his fears about her getting hurt again, so he gives her an ultimatum that she never user her "powers" again or he'll leave her. So despite the pain and heartache it causes her, she chooses to continue to user her powers for good and the boyfriend leaves her.

Sandra Smith thought she had an "easy" enough time being one of the few African-American kids in the city of White Bear Lake MN, so she thought to "simplify" her life even more by becoming the only female African-American police officer in town. Since everything for Sandra was fairly "easy" and "simple", fate decided to complicate things one evening while Sandra was responding to a burglary in progress. Instead of being killed by the criminal perpetrators, Sandra found herself being saved by a woman clad in old Viking gear, calling herself Karita and claiming to be Sandra's Fylgja. According to this Karita, she was called forth to help aid Sandra in defending the descendants of Scandinavia from a horrible catastrophe. That catastrophe being a terrorist plot of setting off a nuclear weapon in what they consider "a prime example of middle white America" and then let the rest of USA sit in fear as the nuclear fall out drifts to the more populated and influential American Northeast.

Linda Purcell is plain and simple high school girl with new real worries except that she never knew her mother. So despite her father's uncharacteristic unhelpfulness, Linda begins a search about who her mother was and finds out a story that she would never had imagined, that Linda is the Daughter of the Devil and the Devil has returned to earth after a 17 year forced exile. The Devil has a plan to harvest unsuspecting souls by using a nationally broadcasted talent contest and only Linda has the power or knowledge to stop her scheming mother.

Sheryl Donavan just turned 30 and she's still looking for a career, a love, a life actually. Well her Fairy Godmother is making her wish come true, just 20 years too late. Sheryl's Fairy Godmother is granting her wish from when she was 10 years old to be a "Pretty Princess of grace, style, and really bitichin powers". Now the questions is will the older and more cynical Sheryl give in to the advances of a CEO who wants to turn her into a franchise before Sheryl finds out that this same CEO is also the evil Wizard that made her Fairy Godmother 20 years late in the first place. Sheryl will have to stop the CEO Wizard from marketing all kids dreams and taking a healthy cut of the market share.

WINNER NAMED IN SHADOWLINE'S WHO WANTS TO CREATE A SUPER-HEROINE CONTEST
Press Release

With over 5,000 entries to go through, five finalists were announced in what may have been comics’ first contest for writers! For the first time ever the fans were allowed to choose their favorite, which will go on to be published through Shadowline as 3-issue mini-series, drawn by fan-favorite artist Franchesco!

The clear winner was Tom Arguello’s Incredible Journey:

Journey Dominguez was a normal teenage girl with big dreams living in a world full of superheroes. All she ever wanted was to be one of them. Everything changes one day when she finds a strange necklace on the street. She puts it on only to find out that she cannot take it off, and that it gives her the ability to summon a temporary superpower for whatever situation she’s in. There’s only one catch; every time she uses a power, she is really stealing it from one of the Superheroes, leaving them permanently powerless and the world increasingly defenseless. All Journey Dominguez ever wanted to be was a super hero. Now, she must convince the world she is not a super villain!

Shadowline Editor-in-Chief Kris Simon and President Jim Valentino would like to congratulate Tom and the four runners-up for their participation over these last 3 months:

1. Kat Cahill: I Hate Galaxy Girl
2. Dirk Manning: Hope
3. C. Edward Sellner: I’ll Fly Away
4. Kristopher Waddell: Challenger

But it doesn’t end here! Over the next several months we will be showing the entire process of creating a comic from plot to script, from layouts to finished art giving an insiders view into making a comic step-by-step, warts and all (another first?) with a lot of help from the artist, Franchesco! It should prove to be an educational experience for anyone interested in making comics.

Please join us at www.kris-korner.com in the ‘Who Wants to Create a Super Heroine’ forum and watch as the book progresses through its many stages.

Shadowline would like to thank all of those who submitted, voted, our final five and yes, even all those who nitpicked, griped and were otherwise rude…at least we got you talking and hopefully, thinking. And now, you’ll excuse us as we’re about to embark on an Incredible Journey!

Yay! That's the one I voted for! =)

Ah, yes. That seems fairly simple. thanks bunches, hope the deadline isn't too close now! XP

... ... ahh nuts.. the deadline was January? X>X

well I think this was only not accepted because it doesnt fit the theme.. lol, I mean, if you wanted to make it more superheroine type of deal, you shoukld have put more about that part in there, otherwise, the people reading this are going off of nothing but a background of a character and seemingly little to a plot line. write more about protecting the greater good or something for this.