Novel Contest

First 5000 submissions only!

Amazon Launches Debut Novel Contest
Amazon is getting into the author-writing contest arena, launching the
first Amazon Breakthrough Novel Award today in cooperation with
Penguin and Hewlett-Packard. Amazon will accept submissions through
November 5 and the winner will have his or her novel published by
Penguin, which is also offering a $25,000 advance. PW will serve as
preliminary judges of the material as well.

The contest is free and open to unpublished authors in 20 countries
who have English-language manuscripts (complete contest rules and
requirements are available at www.amazon.com/abna). Amazon, which will
accept up to 5,000 entries, is assembling a panel of customers who
have posted the most, and best, reviews on its site to serve as the
judges for the first round. After the submissions have been cut to
1,000, a team put together by PW will give a full review to each
manuscript, and the review and excerpt will be posted on the Amazon
Web site where customers can read, rate and review the offerings. The
PW team -- of existing and new reviewers -- will be paid to administer
the reviews, and reviewers will remain anonymous. Amazon is paying
PW's administrative costs only.