I don’t mean this to sound harsh, but this post comes across a little like you already assume you deserve to win such a prize and it’s just those fickle judges

I don’t mean this to sound harsh, but this post comes across a little like you already assume you deserve to win such a prize and it’s just those fickle judges standing in your way. I looked at your sample chapter and immediately bounced off a police officer in Maine calling in a murder as a 187 (California penal code).