Well, it's only a small step but I entered a novel in the Amazon Breakthrough Novel Award contest and it made the first round cut. The book is called Turnabout, and I tried entering it in the YA category last year and didn't make the cut. I honed the blurb (the first round is judged solely on the 300-word blurb) and switched to the science fiction ( Read more... )

The Amazon Breakthrough Novel Award contest is often compared to American Idol, but of course ABNA isn't nearly as famous, and the judges are entirely anonymous. Now, however, the judges are YOU! Amazon has announced the three finalists and opened the voting. The reading public (well, those with an Amazon account, in any event) will pick the ( Read more... )

Amazon has opened submissions on the second season of Amazon Idol-I mean, the 2009 Amazon Breakthrough Novel Award. The deal is, the winner gets published by Penguin, but last year there were actually three or four contracts that came out of the contest ( Read more... )