ABNA is here again!!

Are you an aspiring author?  Have you self-published a book?  Check out the Amazon Breakthrough Novel Award!! Submissions started being accepted for this year's contest yesterday...

Amazon Announces Sixth Annual Amazon Breakthrough Novel Award

One Grand Prize winner will be chosen by Amazon customers and receive a publishing contract with Amazon Publishing, with a $50,000 advance.

 

Finalists will be chosen in five categories: general fiction, mystery/thriller, romance, science fiction/fantasy/horror, and young adult fiction and receive publishing contracts with Amazon Publishing.

 

Starting January 14, authors can enter the contest in one of five categoriesgeneral fiction, mystery/thriller, romance, science fiction/fantasy/horror, and young adult fictionfor the chance to win a publishing contract with Amazon Publishing. A finalist will be chosen in each category, and a Grand Prize winner will then be selected by Amazon customers and receive a $50,000 advance. The remaining finalists will also receive a publishing contract with Amazon Publishing, with a $15,000 advance.

This years ABNA contest is open to unpublished and self-published English-language novels, which can be submitted from January 14, 2013 through January 27, 2013. The five finalists will be announced on May 21, and the Grand Prize winner will be announced during a special ceremony at Amazon headquarters in Seattle in June.

Up to 10,000 eligible entries will be accepted for the ABNA contest this year. The top 400 entries from each category will advance to the second round. Amazon reviewers will then read excerpts of the entries and narrow the pool to 100 titles in each category. In the subsequent round, reviewers from Publishers Weekly will read, review and rate the full manuscripts to find the top five semi-finalists for each category. Amazon Publishing editors will then choose a finalist in each of the five categories. In the final stage of the contest, Amazon.com customers will vote for a Grand Prize winner.

CreateSpace, an Amazon company, will again this year host the contest entry platform, which includes a community for authors that will keep them up-to-date on the contest and help them prepare their entries.

For the complete Official Rules for the 2013 Amazon Breakthrough Novel Award and more information about the contest, please visit www.amazon.com/abna.

 

This year, I'll once again be one of the Publishers Weekly judges.  Last year, my favorite young adult manuscript went on to actually win the entire young adult category! On Little Wings by Regina Sirois officially goes on sale from Penguin on August 15th.