Announcing the 2010 Amazon Breakthrough Novel Award
Amazon.com, along with Penguin Group (USA) and CreateSpace, is pleased to announce the third annual Amazon Breakthrough Novel Award, the international competition seeking the next popular novel. For the first time, the competition will award two grand prizes: one for General Fiction and one for Young Adult Fiction.The 2010 competition will also now be open to novels that have previously been self-published. Each winner will receive a publishing contract with Penguin, which includes a $15,000 advance.
Congratulations to last year's Breakthrough Novel Award winner, James King, whose winning novel, Bill Warrington's Last Chance, will be published by Viking in August 2010. Bill Loehfelm's Fresh Kills, the 2008 winner, is now available in paperback. The Breakthrough Novel Award brings together talented writers, reviewers, and publishing experts to find and develop new voices in fiction.
The panel for the General Fiction category includes bestselling author Tana French (In the Woods); Molly Stern, Editorial Director and Executive Editor of Viking Books; and Julie Barer, of Barer Literary, LLC. The panel for the Young Adult Fiction category includes bestselling authors Sarah Dessen (Along for the Ride) and Nancy Werlin (Impossible); Ben Schrank, President and Publisher of Razorbill; and Amy Berkower, President of Writers House, LLC.
If you're an author with an unpublished or previously self-published novel waiting to be discovered, visit CreateSpace to learn more about the next Breakthrough Novel Award and sign up for regular updates on the contest. Open submissions for manuscripts will begin on January 25, 2010 through February 7, 2010.
Visit the Amazon Breakthrough Novel Award page for official contest rules for more information on how to enter.
--BTP
GB on December 14, 2009 at 08:43 PM
That's a great idea. I enjoyed Loefelhm's Fresh Kills and I plan on reading King's novel soon. In the future, you might consider including a Spanish language novel category as well.