Well I'm glad we're all pretentious third person losers!
And yay for people posting their bios, I love them.
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Quote: Leevil @ September 2, 2007, 10:37 PMLeevil imagines The Slagg Brothers are the type of dudes to talk in third person.
Yes, they do. 
Quote: zooo @ September 2, 2007, 10:47 PMWell I'm glad we're all pretentious third person losers!
And yay for people posting their bios, I love them.
Go on Laura, let's see yours...
Quote: SlagA @ September 2, 2007, 10:36 PMI was told by an established author that it's best to avoid standing out from the crowd by writing something funny in a bio or personal CV. The reasons he gave me being many
Yeah, I'm just learning this now. It's like the 'never try to be funny in an interview' rule. Another Slag Golden Rule that I wish I'd know ages ago.
Okay, it's rubbish though.
When Buckinghamshire born Laura is not writing scripts and fiction for publications like Snow Monkey, Lichen Journal, Velvet Mafia and Forbidden Fruit, or baking bread and cookies in a small shop in Somerset, little time is left. So she spends the time scouting second hand book shops, reading things that she hopes will make her more intelligent, watching Annie Hall too often, and listening to too much Rufus Wainwright.
She also works as an artist, painting and selling original art inspired by cult cinema and comics. She was recently commissioned to design all the artwork for new writing journal TQR: a conceptually bizarre literary journal combining highbrow and low, and she is a collaborator in new illustrated pop-culture magazine Robert.
She has a literary agent and is currently working on her next project, which makes use of her unusual family history and focuses on a macabre group of South American lasso artists.
Hmm, sent mine in now but got the auto reply competition closed. It was definitely the end of Sunday. I just hope they forgot to update the auto reply.
Me too. 
I sent mine last night and got a "you have entered the competition" or something to that effect.
Don't rub it in or anything.
I also got an email saying you have won the £5000 and it's thebest piece of writing evererer.
Well that is wrong, I mean it says, "the weekend" and that the email will go on Monday and no more will be accepted. Therefore, you should have till 2359 on Sunday.
Some might say TS - but if you have extra time, you should use it to polish and refine.
I have emailed Red Planet just to double check.
*murders Leevil*
In retrospect, Stylo wishes she'd also written her bio in 3rd person... in retrospect there are too many 'I did' and 'I have'(s)which make Stylo sound even more pretentious than if she'd written it in 3rd person. Still... live and learn.
Quote: zooo @ September 2, 2007, 11:27 PMOkay, it's rubbish though.
When Buckinghamshire born Laura is not writing scripts and fiction for publications like Snow Monkey, Lichen Journal, Velvet Mafia and Forbidden Fruit, or baking bread and cookies in a small shop in Somerset, little time is left. So she spends the time scouting second hand book shops, reading things that she hopes will make her more intelligent, watching Annie Hall too often, and listening to too much Rufus Wainwright.
She also works as an artist, painting and selling original art inspired by cult cinema and comics. She was recently commissioned to design all the artwork for new writing journal TQR: a conceptually bizarre literary journal combining highbrow and low, and she is a collaborator in new illustrated pop-culture magazine Robert.
She has a literary agent and is currently working on her next project, which makes use of her unusual family history and focuses on a macabre group of South American lasso artists.
That's good, you come across as someone interesting and pleasant who'd be fun to work with. I think the one I sent in fell in the 'trying too hard to impress' category.
Well when they said write a bio I must of heard 'some up your writing in two sentances' which is why I wrote
My name is Adam Pitts. I have written for Newsrevue and a comedian aswell as writing and performing my own stand up material.
I'm not holding my breath or crossing my fingers 
Probably fed up of my neurotic posts already, but the competition page now reads
The Red Planet Prize for 2007 is now closed to entries.
Thank you to the hundreds of people that have entered.
We will keep you up to date with the progress of the judging.
So I figure if you did get the "closed" email like I did, it's probably just an error.