The Week contest - Email novels

Welcome to The Week's "What Next?" contest, an invitation to test your powers of imagination with challenges inspired by current events.

Click here for the results of the previous contest: Celebrity fragrances

Last week's question: The average office worker spends 650 hours a year reading and writing 41,400 words’ worth of emails, equivalent to a novel 166 pages long. Please send us the title of your novel-in-emails.

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THE WINNER: Much Ado About Nothing

Mark Weaver, Redondo Beach, Calif.

SECOND PLACE: The Old Man and the CC

Craig Hodges, Dover, N.H.

THIRD PLACE: The Neverending Story

Steve Curfman, Charlotte, N.C.

HONORABLE MENTIONS:

1984 Unread Messages

Tracy Solum, San Francisco

The Lord of the Pings

Kim Hemphill, South Riding, Va.

Sent From My iPad

Hilary Cooper, Ladera Ranch, Calif.

What I Did at Work When I Wasn't on Facebook

Sean Gladding, Lexington, Ky.

The Pickwick Emails

Ken Kellam III, Dallas

To Key a Mocking Word

Elizabeth Bricking, Louisville

Of Mouse and Man

Alan Parven, Commerce Township, Mich.

The Work-Life Balance, Unbalanced

Brent Reed, Louisville

Text and the City

Paul Witte, New Hope, Pa.

My Deleted Life

Mike Boskovic, Glen Ellyn, Ill.

Doctor Strangemail: How I Learned to Stop Forwarding and Love the BCC

Joe Valetti, San Leandro, Calif.

Words Without Friends

Cindy Kalinoski, York Pa.

Cry, the Beloved Cubicle

Eric E. Wallace, Eagle, Idaho

Elysses

James Smith, Mill Valley, Calif.

The Lord of Replies

Matt Gough, Sunnyvale, Calif.

In Search of Lost Time

Don Jagust, Berkeley, Calif.

As I Lay Typing

John Malatesta, New York City

LOLita

Tom Bohnen, Zenia, Calif.

From Here to e-Ternity

Julio Suarez, Plano, Texas

Eat Pray Delete

Ann Parsons, San Antonio

Sex, Lies, and Attachments

Anne Marie Dominguez, Plymouth, Minn.

You’ve Got Mail...and Carpal Tunnel

Arlene Kavanagh, Providence, R.I.

War and Peace and Daily Trivia

Peter Bowen, Marblehead, Mass.

This Novel Has Been Marked as Spam

Gil Rognstad, Cynthiana, Ky.