| | | | | | | Greetings, | | | As an author who has used the Amazon's Digital Text Platform, we want to let you know about an exciting opportunity for authors at Amazon. Amazon.com and Penguin Group (USA) announced the third annual Amazon Breakthrough Novel Award (ABNA) , an international competition seeking fresh new writing voices. One of the great new aspects of the contest is that self-published novels are now eligible to be submitted. There will also be two categories this year, Young Adult Fiction, and General Fiction. One Grand Prize winner from each category will receive a full publishing contract with Penguin including a $15,000 advance. Contest details are listed below, and further information and official rules can be found at www.amazon.com/abna . To get tips on how to enter or sign up, visit www.createspace.com/abna .
What is the Amazon Breakthrough Novel Award? The Amazon Breakthrough Novel Award is an opportunity for emerging fiction writers to join a community of authors on Amazon.com, showcase their work, and compete for a chance to get published. Sponsored in partnership with Penguin Group (USA) and CreateSpace, the Amazon Breakthrough Novel Award first launched in October 2007 and received more than 5,000 initial entries. In the inaugural contest, Amazon customers voted and named Bill Loehfelm the winner with his novel, Fresh Kills . Several of the other Top 10 finalists also received publishing deals with Penguin.
The 2009 Amazon Breakthrough Novel Award started out even bigger than the first contest, with over 6,500 authors signing up. After narrowing the field, the top 500 excerpts were available to Amazon customer to read and review while Publishers Weekly reviewed the full manuscripts. From that information, Penguin selected 100 semifinalists that which were then reviewed by a group of Penguin editors who the three finalists. Excerpts from Ian Gibson (Stuff of Legends), James King (Bill Warrington's Last Chance ), and Brandi-Lynn Ryder (In Malice, Quite Close ) were voted on by Amazon customers, and in a ceremony in New York, James King was announced as the 2009 winner.
What are the grand prizes? The grand prize winner in each category will receive a full publishing contract with Penguin to market and distribute the Grand Prize winner's winning manuscript as a published book, including promotion for the published book on Amazon.com and a $15,000 advance.
How do interested authors enter? The Submission period is now open, and will stay open until February 7th, 2010 at 11:59 p.m. (U.S. Eastern Standard Time), or when the first 5,000 entries have been received in each category, whichever is earlier. There is no entry fee. | | | | | | | | | |
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