I hate those short story contests that want 500 words or less. Grr they are evil. Mines 1200words and there's no way i can narrow it down so much. It's so annoying!
No i didnt do background check... mainly because it came from a short story website that listed all the national contests. It was free so really it doesnt matter. It's not like i was planning on publishing it anyway. It was something i did for an english assignment lol i was just like "ah why not?"
Free-to-enter competitions can still be scams aimed at taking your money. There's a famous scam involving short-story competitions where everybody who enters "wins" and is then encouraged to buy the book in which their "winner" is published. The publisher makes a massive profit from each copy.
Happened to me with a poetry contest that my English teacher made me enter (we had to enter two contests that year for a grade). I didn't buy the book, but I didn't find out it was a scam until a few months after I "won."
But today, I'm going to be running my Rogue Trader game.
I have slightly overhooked myself in the Roleplaying games.
I game-master Rogue Trader on Monday
I game-master a Pathfinder game on Wednesday
I game-master a Mutants and Masterminds game on Friday
Then I game-master ANOTHER Pathfinder game on Sunday!
I have three words for you
Inbred
Hillbilly
Ogres.
It's like The Hills Have Eyes meets Lord of the Ring!