Get Your Manuscripts Ready!

January 24th, 2012 by me
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The Amazon Breakthrough Novel Award Contest is open for submissions through February 5 – or until they’ve got 5,000 submissions in each category (YA and General Fiction), whichever comes first. Winners will be published by Penguin, with a $15,000 Advance.

Wouldn’t it be nice if fellow SheWriters took the prizes?

Do share what you are you planning to enter in the comments below! - Meg

 

I’m the nationally bestselling author of The Four Ms. Bradwells (just out in paperback as a Random House Reader’s Circle Selection), The Wednesday SistersThe Language of Light, and the forthcoming The Wednesday Daughters.

 

Posted in Contests and Calls for Submissions

2 Responses

  1. Susan

    I was planning on entering, but this post was a good reminder. I entered my novel (women’s fiction). I entered it in the Bellweather competition, too. I’m currently querying agents, but it can’t hurt to enter some contests, too!
    Susan recently posted..Why We Write

  2. Carol

    Hello! This post couldn’t be written any better! Reading through this post reminds me of my good old room mate! He always kept talking about this. I will forward this page to him. Fairly certain he will have a good read. Thanks for sharing!
    Carol recently posted..Mystery Babylon

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