Amazon Breakthrough Novel Award closes its list...
Yesterday it was announced that entries had reached the 5,000 mark. Writers who missed out could go on a waiting list, and hope a registered writer would fail to submit.
The competition forum has been seething; anxious people unsure how to interpret the rules, and trying to help each other out in the almost total absence of Amazon admin. We won't be told our submission has 'qualified' until November 12th. No-one knows how rigidly the rules will be enforced; will you be disqualified for not having one inch margins? Or inadvertently leaving your name in the header? When they say 'a thousand-character synopsis' do they really mean a blurb? You can't check your submission, or go back and change it.
I wonder if they expected so many entries that the list would fill two weeks before the deadline?
Now it's just wait and see...
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Best of luck. I can root for you wholeheartedly (unless Alan is also in...then is it half-heartedly, or Anna, or...).
ReplyDeleteAnyway, I did not enter. Mary and I wish you good fortune.
Thank you both.
ReplyDeleteRoot away - it's just me, out of our lot. Unfortunately; I wish you were doing it.
Josie is the only YWOer that I know is entered.
Go Lexi!
ReplyDeleteRepeat as needed.
Good luck!
ReplyDelete:))
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Thanks, Alan and Anne.
ReplyDeleteI'm hoping it will be fun.
Well now Mary and I join the chant.
ReplyDeleteGO LEXI!!!!
GO LEXI!!!!
GO LEXI!!!!
GO LEXI!!!!