For all you aspiring authors out there, get your polishing pens ready...set...go!
Amazon JUST announced their ABNA (Amazon Breakthrough Novel Award) contest for 2010.
Submissions start January 25, 2010!
It's FREE, FREE, FREE to enter.
This year there are two categories (which will be broken out into genres): adult fiction and YA...(yes!!) There will be a winner from EACH.
Go here for more details: http://www.amazon.com/abna
AND here: https://www.createspace.com/abna (createspace handles all the registration portions).
Other significant changes this year include allowing previously self-published novels into the contest.
You'll need an MS between 50-150k, a 5k excerpt and a 300 word pitch...as well as a couple of other nominal items which you can find under the "How to Enter" section.
Good luck to all who enter!!
New World 4: Way of the Giant
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Here’s a excerpt from early in the draft of New World 4: Way of the Giant.
Future editing may wipe this scene from existence… so enjoy it here,
because you...