For those of you who don’t know it, the story of how Regarding Ducks and Universes came to be published goes something like this: I entered the manuscript in the 2009 Amazon Breakthrough Novel Award contest. The novel made the semifinals. It didn’t win. About a year later, in late May of 2010, as I was revising and sending queries to agents (with very limited success), I got the offer from AmazonEncore, the new imprint of Amazon. The book will be published both in print and on Kindle on February 22.
Amazon.com, along with Penguin Group (USA) and CreateSpace, is pleased to announce the fourth annual Amazon Breakthrough Novel Award Contest, the international competition seeking the next popular novel. The competition will once again award two grand prizes: one for General Fiction and one for Young Adult Fiction. Each winner will receive a publishing contract with Penguin, which includes a $15,000 advance.
The Breakthrough Novel Award Contest brings together talented writers, reviewers, and publishing experts to find and develop new voices in fiction. If you’re an author with an unpublished or previously self-published novel waiting to be discovered, visit CreateSpace to sign up for regular contest updates. Open submissions for manuscripts will begin on January 24, 2011 and run through February 6, 2011.
Neve Maslakovic 