>Have any of you aspiring writers sent out any query letters only to receive >a letter from something called "Butterfly Press" in Georgia? A writer >friend of mine did, recently, and the letter said they were running a >contest with a $25,000 first prize and asking for submissions. The whole >thing sounded a bit suspicious, and several web searches have yielded no >info on the company (although there is a Butterfly Press in Florida) Check out The Writer's Message Board: http://users.ids.net/~rebecca/writing/wwwboard.html. It's a wonderful resource specifically for questions such as this. Writers from all over the world commiserate on who works for the Force and who works for the Empire. Malcolm