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American Novel / Idol
The Semi-Finalists in the Amazon.Com Breakthrough Novel Contest — an online quest for the next Great American Novel — are here. The winner of this contest receives publication by Penguin. And — well, what else is there? OK, there's money — a $25,000 advance.
Several Carolina authors are among the semifinalists. And here's where you come in. Download a 5,000-word excerpt from a novel, then rate and review it. Those voted to stay on the virtual island move on to the 100 Top Semi-Finalists. From these top 100 Semi-Finalists, 10 finalists will be selected by Penguin. Excerpts from the 10 finalists will be posted online and Amazon.Com customers will vote to select the Grand Prize winner.
You can be a winner, too. Customers who rate and review at least 25 semi-finalist excerpts will be entered in a contest, in which three people will receive an Amazon Kindle, a $2,000 Amazon gift certificate and a Hewlett-Packard.
Get all the nitty-gritty details here.
And here are links to the Carolina semi-finalists:
RALEIGH
The World's All Nations
http://www.amazon.com/dp/B00121SFOY
Mike Jasper - Wake Forest - mjasper@gmail.com
Pinocchio is Punching You
http://www.amazon.com/dp/B0011G9Y1I
Alex Wilson - Carrboro (Triangle), NC - alex@alexwilson.com
The Wet Nurse's Tale
http://www.amazon.com/dp/B0011G9XOQ
Erica Eisdorfer – Carrboro
ASHEVILLE
TUCKASEEGEE
http://amazon.com/dp/B0011G9Y5E
Betty Cloer Wallace – Asheville - bettycloerwallace@runbox.com
Girls, Girls, Out
http://www.amazon.com/dp/B00124COYI
Lockie Hunter – Asheville - lockie@lockiehunter.com
Dragonmark
http://www.amazon.com/dp/B001200BZG
Douglas A. Sanburn – Asheville
CHARLOTTE
'51 Rocks - Batboy on the Worst Team Ever
http://www.amazon.com/dp/B00124COKW
Matt Musson – Charlotte – Musson1@hotmail.com
The Sable Curtain
http://www.amazon.com/dp/B0011G9XPK
K. F. Jones – Charlotte - secretary4me@hotmail.com
Flight of the Fireflies
http://www.amazon.com/dp/B00122I1J2
Lena Joy Rose – Matthews, NC - info@lenajoy.com
The Prophecy
http://www.amazon.com/dp/B00121WDWY
Mai Christy Thao – Charlotte - maichristythao@gmail.com
GREENSBORO
Casting Off
http://www.amazon.com/dp/B00122I1O2
Nicole R. Dickson – Greensboro – nande@seanet.com
SOUTH CAROLINA
Under the Mississippi
http://www.amazon.com/dp/B0011ZCAVU
Lou Dischler - Spartanburg, SC – author@delocorp.net
Wagner at Midnight
http://www.amazon.com/dp/B00121WEJQ
Katherine Guckenberger - Charleston, SC – kaki.kirk@gmail.com
STEALING FIRE
http://www.amazon.com/dp/B00124CO4I
Susan Sloate - Mt. Pleasant, SC
Top 10 ABNA Finalists
Two Carolina authors made it to the top 10. Erica Eisdorfer with The Wet Nurse's Tale and mine, Casting Off by Nicole R Dickson. There are now videos where the Penguin editors discuss our novels and there is a panel of four people in the novel business who have given their opinions of our work. Reviews are still appreciated but can no longer be seen as we are in the final stage of the contest. The person with the most 5 store reviews wins, however no one will know until the first week of April.