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10-05-2007, 12:42 AM
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Member
Join Date: Oct 2007
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Amazon Novel Contest
anyone see this? its a novel contest on Amazon.com...
Its sponsored by Amazon and Penguin. Winner gets a Penguin contract and $25K.
let me know what you think!
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10-05-2007, 01:13 AM
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Banned
Join Date: Jun 2007
Posts: 1,414
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It's crap, really.
I feel sorry for the grand prize winner; he's going to end up being a slave to the market, churning the same plot, same stylistic formula to satisfy Penguin.
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10-05-2007, 03:12 AM
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Wordsmith
Join Date: May 2007
Location: On islands
Gender: Male
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This is the same contest that TT praised when he was saying that some other contest was crap.
Penguin is hardly the fortress of formula, you twit. And you're not much of slave when they give you 25 grand for work you already did.
But don't let me interrupt the bubbling cauldron of your head with anything reasonable.
Regarding the contest, it's a real rarity and worth jumping on if you have a decent novel. Limited amount of entries allowed.
So if you have a sucky novel, you might consider NOT entering it to leave room for people who have a shot.
By the way, Borders is running something similar, smaller scale, for crime novels.
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10-11-2007, 04:08 PM
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Join Date: Jul 2007
Location: Vancouver, BC
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For a first novel, it's not a bad contract. Plus some guaranteed promotion from Amazon and Penguin so you know you'll sell a few copies at least.
For someone trying to get a novel published for the first time, I don't see why you wouldn't at least consider it.
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10-13-2007, 01:14 PM
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Mentor
Join Date: Oct 2006
Location: South Jersey, USA
Gender: Male
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This contest actually sounds a lot more worthy to enter than any other contest out there...
This one actually awards the winner a contract with penguin... this is not some mom and pop publisher... and if your book does well I am sure penguin would be happy to publish more from you.
I wish my manuscript was ready.
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