Here it is, our new contest for love and money!  Elvis 101:  All shook up!

Literate!

April 4, 1973 Elvis makes entertainment history with his “Elvis: Aloha from Hawaii” satellite special. Elvis is in top form physically and vocally in, arguably, his greatest career moment.

April 5, 2011 is your chance to make entertainment history!

Entertain us all with a story, fact or fiction, that is exactly one hundred and one words that takes its title and theme from a song The King recorded.

Memory left the building?  Maybe this list will help.

en.wikipedia.org/wiki/List_of_songs_by_Elvis_Presley

Rules:
101 words exactly not including the title, which must be an Elvis song.  Word Nazis will check the number, and failure to comply will get the entry bumped back to the author for revision.

One or two sentences after the story explaining the choice of song title and / or relevance to the story.  (not counted in your 101)

Three entries allowed per writer, but each must be sent separately as an attached
word doc and NOT word docx, with your name and contact info on the page itself.

By entering the contest, you are giving us the right to publish your story on line, and, at our option, first time rights to publish in a printed anthology.  (Should we publish in hard copy, after publication all rights revert back to the author.)

You may at your option include a short bio about yourself, on the same page as your entry, and a link to your website if you are involved in the creative arts or entertainment, and we will post it along with your story, and add you to our page of “Significant Others”
(www.awordwithyoupress.com/significant-others/).

Contest ends mid-night, May 5th.  Winner announced May 10th and prize mailed no later than June 10th.  Send your entry to info@awordwithyoupress.com.

And the Prize?

ELVIS himself!

Elvis preparing to eat a hot-dog-on-a-stick

This collector’s item is a porcelain bourbon decanter that still smells of booze. In one hand Elvis is holding a microphone, and in the other, a mystery item that looks like a donut.  Sort of.  We will ask whoever wins this trophy, which will have their name and accomplishment engraved and attached to the base, to solve the mystery of the mystery item.
AND, as an added incentive:  The King was born in ’35.  We will add $35 in cash to help the winner fill the decanter once more with Kentucky Bourbon.  Or perhaps they would like to use that money instead to make a purchase at our store to buy one of our books, t-shirts, or mugs?(www.awordwithyoupress.com/store/).

And $35 is also the cost of an ISBN number, when you publish your manuscript with A Word with You Press, partisans in the publishing revolution. If you have more than 101 words, (say, a nearly completed novel?) let us show you an alternative path to publication that blends the best worlds of traditional and self-publishing modes: www.awordwithyoupress.com/publishing-services/

We ask each entrant to leave a comment on a story other than their own as the entries get posted, and we ask everyone to help this site grow by announcing our contest on all their social media sites. Tweat us tender!  Face-book us before we make the jail house rock.  Extra credit to those who leave in the comment box after their story goes on line “I pimp for A Word with You Press”

So!  Get started before this contest leaves the building.

Thankyou. Thankyouverymuch.

Best of luck!

The Elvis inperspirators at A Word with You Press“  (anybody gotta donut?)

Elvis successfully impersonating himself in 1973