It’s time again for Amazon Breakthrough Novel Award.
At stake is the $50,000 Grand Prize, plus four $15,000 First Prizes and Amazon
Publishing Contracts.
Feb 15-March 2: Round 1 (Pitch) –
Amazon-selected editors will read and rate a pitch (up to 300 words) from each
entrant. The top 400 entries in each of the five categories will advance to the
second round. (Note that the entry period will end as soon as they receive the
maximum number of entries—10,000 for General Fiction, Romance, Mystery &
Thriller, Science Fiction/Fantasy/Horror and Young Adult Fiction combined.)
April 14: Quarter-Finals (Full Manuscript) – Reviewers from Publishers Weekly will read and rate full manuscripts and provide feedback to the entrants. The top five entries in each of the five categories will advance to the Semi-Finals.
June 13: Semi-Finals – The Amazon Publishing judging panel, consisting of qualified representatives selected by Amazon Publishing, will review the manuscript and the accompanying reviews of each Semi-Finalist’s entry to select a Finalist in each category (each, a “Finalist”) using the judging criteria.
July 8: Finals – Amazon customers will vote to determine the Grand Prize winner. All remaining Finalists will receive a First Prize.
July 21: Grand Prize winner is announced.
TIPS for
preparing your entry
- Select the genre that best fits your book.
- Stay within the word count limits: pitch (up to 300 words); excerpt (3,000 to 5,000 words); manuscript (50,000 to 125,000 words).
- Remove all identifying information from your pitch, excerpt and manuscript, including your name and/or pen name, contact information, author bio/resume, and any awards received for your book.
- Submit all your material in English.
Here are six lessons that I learned as a Quarter-Finalist in 2012
for one of my novels, The Resurrection of
Jonathan Brady, which will also useful when submitting your work to agents and publishers.
Good Luck!
—Borneo Expat Writer
*Update: A Perfect Day for an Expat's Exit advances to Round Two for mystery/thriller. Here's the 300-word pitch that got it through.
*Update: A Perfect Day for an Expat's Exit advances to Round Two for mystery/thriller. Here's the 300-word pitch that got it through.
Here are links to
four of my author-to-author interviews of first novelists:
Golda
Mowe author of Iban Dream and Iban Journey.
Preeta
Samarasan author of Evening is the Whole Day.
Chuah
Guat Eng, author of Echoes of Silence and Days
of Change.
Plus:
Five part Maugham
and Me series
Beheaded on
Road to Nationhood: Sarawak Reclaimed—Part
I
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