New entrants: Wanna play, but you have no idea what to do?  Read the rules and come back here.

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First thank you to everyone for their contributions!  We are only $75 shy for tonight’s goal! 

To donate, visit our PAWS page here.

If the goal is not met by midnight tonight, Kissy is putting his reading glasses away; he’ll save his special surprise for the next RLGL game which may happen whenever he feels like getting around to it. Woof.

Arroooooooooo!

Hot-diggity-dog. It’s the weekend, folks, and we just realized we can’t get to this many entries by tomorrow with the weekend upon us, so we are extending Round 2 until today, Saturday, August, 18th 11:59pm CST. This means if you haven’t already submitted something for Round 2, you may do so until the deadline. ENJOY YOUR WEEKEND and stay away from your computer. We promise you won’t start round 3 until Monday morning at the earliest.

Arf! Arf! Arf! Woof, woof, woof woof!

Kissy has an important announcement.

Kind, Generous Life-Saving Humans,

Many of you are sending your subs to Cynthea’s email address.  Cynthea’s inbox is mostly filled with loads of irrelevant email that no dog would ever want to read.  So, I’ll beg on my hind legs if I have to, please send your submission to the email address listed in the RULES so that I can sniff your submission.

Round 2 is now officially open.  If you sent in something before the round opened, Kissy gives you a warning bark for failure to wait. That said, we’ll count your early entry toward round 2. But please don’t do it again. Our inbox becomes a huge mess when we do RLGL.  Anything you can do to keep us sane would be greatly appreciated.

This round is now open until 11:59pm CST on Saturday  8/18.

First, thank you for helping us reach our first fundraising goal and then some. A new goal will be posted when Round 2 opens.

Here are round 1 Results.  *****RESULTS ARE COMPLETE*****

An asterisk means Kissy is contemplating sending your work back. So try to turn it around if you can.

For code definitions, see our free-tique feedback code list.  For those of you with later numbers, Iskipped the codes to get you the results faster. So just read the notes.

Hello, everyone,

New participants – get your first half-page submission ready. A new round will be announced tonight. Do not send it though until the next round is open. (Round 2)

Existing participants – results for Round 1 will be posted soon.  In the meanwhile, familiarize yourself with our free-tique feedback codes.

If your work is eliminated in this round, you will receive one or more of these codes.

Hello WFCAT fans,

Please read this post in full before sending anything.

One of my favorite events of the year is the SCBWI-LA conference, the largest conference in the world for children’s book writers and illustrator. It’s coming soon (August 3-6th)!  Please join me at the conference and say hello! Once more, I’ll be on faculty this year, potentially critiquing YOUR manuscript.