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LOVE BLOCK
by Meghan Austin and Shannon Mullally
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Love Block is a collaborative novel, written via phone and email by writers living on opposite ends of the United States. Through a series of correspondences, two secret agents debate, bicker and commiserate while they search for a mysterious cure for the lovelorn (possibly in the form of a "love block" potion that will foil any and all heartbreak). Love Block explores the question of whether or not humans should surrender to the idea of true love. It's funny, furious, sometimes crazy and always fast-moving, just like the contest itself.
About the authors
Meghan Austin and Shannon Mullally met while earning their MFAs in Writing from the School of the Art Institute of Chicago. When they agreed to collaborate on this contest, Austin was living in Portland, Oregon and Mullally was living in Chicago. They both now live in Chicago, where they continue to write. Love Block is their first published novel.
2004 2nd Prize Winner
Sincere Flattery by Jen Frankel (Stratford, Ontario)
2004 3rd Prize Winner
Touching Picasso by Amy Nichols (Peoria, Arizona)
2004 Shortlisted Novelists
... Take three deep breaths. Guzzle coffee, black or with sugar. Don't punish yourself. Do that on Tuesday. Get back to work. Take phone off hook. Pull drapes. If you feel lonely — an outcast — you are. That manuscript is now your only friend, the only one who cares. Finish it. Let it have a life, even if you don't. Bravo.
Illustrations: Eve Corbel, 2004