Yes, they've announced the winners of the 'Bulwer-Lytton Fiction Contest' (where, sigh, "'WWW' means 'Wretched Writers Welcome'") -- which: "challenges entrants to compose the opening sentence to the worst of all possible novels".
Since I've happily made my way through close to 10,000 pages of Bulwer-Lytton's work (nearly everything except for some of the dramas and poetry, and his England and the English) I think he gets kind of a bum rap with this contest; on the other hand, at least it helps keep his name in circulation .....
Since I've happily made my way through close to 10,000 pages of Bulwer-Lytton's work (nearly everything except for some of the dramas and poetry, and his England and the English) I think he gets kind of a bum rap with this contest; on the other hand, at least it helps keep his name in circulation .....