{"id":816,"date":"2009-02-05T06:00:28","date_gmt":"2009-02-05T14:00:28","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/cindyprocter-king.com\/blog\/?p=816"},"modified":"2009-02-01T16:17:16","modified_gmt":"2009-02-02T00:17:16","slug":"amazon-breakthrough-novel-award","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/cindyprocter-king.com\/blog\/amazon-breakthrough-novel-award\/","title":{"rendered":"Amazon Breakthrough Novel Award"},"content":{"rendered":"<p style=\"text-align: left;\">Submissions for the 2009 <a href=\"http:\/\/www.amazon.com\/b?node=332264011\" target=\"_blank\">Amazon Breakthrough Novel Award<\/a> are running right now, February 2 &#8211; 8, 2009. Only three more days to enter, if you&#8217;re up for it. <a href=\"http:\/\/www.amazon.com\/gp\/help\/customer\/display.html?nodeId=200291660\" target=\"_blank\">Entry details found here.<\/a><\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: left;\">Entry requirements include:<\/p>\n<blockquote>\n<ul style=\"text-align: left;\">\n<li>The full\/complete version of your manuscript (the &#8220;Manuscript&#8221;), which must be between 50,000 and 150,000 words;<\/li>\n<li>Up to the first 5,000 words, but no less than 3,000 words, of text of that manuscript, excluding any table of contents, foreword, and acknowledgments (the &#8220;Excerpt&#8221;);<\/li>\n<li>A pitch statement (cover letter\/summary) of up to 300 word (the &#8220;Pitch&#8221;)<\/li>\n<li>Other registration information as asked for on the entry page (such as name, contact information, book title), and<\/li>\n<li>An author photo (if desired), which must be in .jpg format (at least 72 dpi and 500&#215;468 pixels)<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<\/blockquote>\n<p style=\"text-align: left;\">That&#8217;s from the site. I don&#8217;t make this stuff up!<\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: left;\">You have to register before you can enter, so if this is the first you&#8217;ve heard of the contest, get at &#8216;er.<\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: left;\">Also from the site:<\/p>\n<blockquote style=\"text-align: left;\">\n<p style=\"text-align: left;\">We&#8217;re excited to announce that mega-bestselling authors <span style=\"color: #000000;\">Sue Monk Kidd and Sue Grafton <\/span>will lead this year&#8217;s expert panel, kicking off the Breakthrough Novel Award finalist round with their reviews of the top three manuscripts. A-list literary agent Barney Karpfinger and Penguin Press Editor-in-Chief Eamon Dolan will also join them to provide careful critiques of the finalists&#8217; novels.<\/p>\n<\/blockquote>\n<p style=\"text-align: left;\">Last year my buddy, <a href=\"http:\/\/www.maureenmcgowan.com\" target=\"_blank\">Maureen McGowan<\/a>, made it into the quarter finals (or was it further, Maureen? I looked for a search box on your blog, but couldn&#8217;t find one). (By the way, thanks for doing away with that um, particular widget we spoke about).<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Submissions for the 2009 Amazon Breakthrough Novel Award are running right now, February 2 &#8211; 8, 2009. Only three more days to enter, if you&#8217;re up for it. Entry details found here. Entry requirements include: The full\/complete version of your manuscript (the &#8220;Manuscript&#8221;), which must be between 50,000 and 150,000 words; Up to the first&hellip; <a class=\"more-link\" href=\"https:\/\/cindyprocter-king.com\/blog\/amazon-breakthrough-novel-award\/\">Continue reading <span class=\"screen-reader-text\">Amazon Breakthrough Novel Award<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":51,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[21,18],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-816","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-contests","category-writing","entry"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/cindyprocter-king.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/816","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/cindyprocter-king.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/cindyprocter-king.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/cindyprocter-king.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/51"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/cindyprocter-king.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=816"}],"version-history":[{"count":13,"href":"https:\/\/cindyprocter-king.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/816\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":829,"href":"https:\/\/cindyprocter-king.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/816\/revisions\/829"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/cindyprocter-king.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=816"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/cindyprocter-king.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=816"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/cindyprocter-king.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=816"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}