So what that means
That last post was a little incoherent and at least one person was confused about what exactly I'd "won."
I entered the last completed draft of the young adult fantasy novel (based on the myth of Medusa) into the Amazon Breakthrough Novel Contest. I made the first cut and today I found out I made the quarter final, which means I am in the top 250 entries for the YA award. The grand prize is a publishing contract with Penguin Books and $15k.
So basically I have won a manuscript review from Publishers Weekly, a subscription to Publishers Weekly (snore) and a chance to make the Top 50. I'll find out on April 24th about that and will again be shocked if I make it. Not because I don't believe in myself, but because I've already moved on from that draft to a new one, which I suspect will be much, much stronger.
Oh, and the only reason I entered? Because strange_selkie made me. ♥!!!!!!!
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I entered the last completed draft of the young adult fantasy novel (based on the myth of Medusa) into the Amazon Breakthrough Novel Contest. I made the first cut and today I found out I made the quarter final, which means I am in the top 250 entries for the YA award. The grand prize is a publishing contract with Penguin Books and $15k.
So basically I have won a manuscript review from Publishers Weekly, a subscription to Publishers Weekly (snore) and a chance to make the Top 50. I'll find out on April 24th about that and will again be shocked if I make it. Not because I don't believe in myself, but because I've already moved on from that draft to a new one, which I suspect will be much, much stronger.
Oh, and the only reason I entered? Because strange_selkie made me. ♥!!!!!!!
Originally posted at Dreamwidth but you may comment here at LJ. ♥ There are
comments at Dreamwidth.