Amazon Breakthrough Novel Award

Amazon Breakthrough Novel Award

The Amazon Breakthrough Novel Award is a contest sponsored by Amazon.com, Penguin Group, Hewlett Packard, CreateSpace and BookSurge to publish and promote a manuscript by an unknown or unpublished author.

2008 competition

Amazon introduced the Breakthrough Novel Award in 2007. The first competition began in late 2007 and ended in early 2008. A maximum of 5,000 manuscripts were accepted during the contest period, which ran between October 1, 2007 and November 5, 2007. In mid-January 2008, up to 836 authors were selected as semi-finalists and received a capsule review of their manuscript from Publishers Weekly. On February 19, 2008, 100 semi-finalists had their manuscripts read by Penguin editors.

On March 3, 2008, the top ten finalists were announced. All received a prize package from HP and a self-publishing package from BookSurge.

# "The Hellraiser of the Hollywood Hills" by Jennifer Colt
# "Casting Off" by Nicole R. Dickson
# "Bad Things Happen" by Harry Dolan
# "The Wet Nurse's Tale" by Erica Eisdorfer
# "The Butterflies of Grand Canyon" by Margaret Erhart
# "Ring of Lies" by Karen Laugel
# "Fresh Kills" by Bill Loehfelm
# "Motherless Children" by Randall Luce
# "The Prospect of My Arrival" by Dwight Okita
# " Wrecking Civilization Before Lunch" by John Ring

Amazon customers voted to pick the grand-prize winner. The top three received a trip to New York City. On April 7, 2008, "Fresh Kills" by Bill Loehfelm was announced as the first winner of the Amazon Breakthrough Novel Award. Loehfelm won a larger prize package from HP and a $25,000 advance on a publishing contract with Penguin.

External links

* [http://www.amazon.com/ABNA Official homepage]
* [http://www.amazon.com/gp/product/0399155317/ "Fresh Kills"] on Amazon.com


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