{"id":8,"date":"2008-01-16T18:52:19","date_gmt":"2008-01-17T02:52:19","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.amberstults.com\/?p=8"},"modified":"2008-07-28T18:15:11","modified_gmt":"2008-07-28T22:15:11","slug":"amazon-breakthrough-novel-award","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"http:\/\/www.amberstults.com\/?p=8","title":{"rendered":"Amazon Breakthrough Novel Award"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>About three years ago I met Elmore Hammes at a local\u00c2\u00a0NaNoWriMo kickoff party.\u00c2\u00a0 He&#8217;s impressed me with the number of novels he can churn out each year and with the quality of his writing.\u00c2\u00a0 Elmore&#8217;s been published in <a href=\"http:\/\/www.thefirstline.com\" target=\"_blank\">The First Line<\/a> and submitted one of his novels for the <a href=\"http:\/\/www.amazon.com\/abna\" target=\"_blank\">Amazon Breakthrough Novel Award<\/a>.\u00c2\u00a0 I received an email from Elmore today to find out that from 5,000 entries, Elmore is a one of the 800 semi-finalists.\u00c2\u00a0 An excerpt of Elmore&#8217;s novel can be found on Amazon <a href=\"http:\/\/www.amazon.com\/dp\/B001200BY2\" target=\"_blank\">here<\/a>.<\/p>\n<p>Amazon customers can read excerpts of the semi-finalists and provide customer reviews until March 2nd.\u00c2\u00a0 Finalists will be announced on March 3rd.\u00c2\u00a0 If you review the excerpts you&#8217;re in the running for a prize package of goodies.\u00c2\u00a0 It looks like the catch is that you have to provide at least 25 reviews.\u00c2\u00a0 Think of it this way&#8230; if you do one review a day you&#8217;ll be in the running for\u00c2\u00a0the prize package before you know it!<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>About three years ago I met Elmore Hammes at a local\u00c2\u00a0NaNoWriMo kickoff party.\u00c2\u00a0 He&#8217;s impressed me with the number of novels he can churn out each year and with the quality of his writing.\u00c2\u00a0 Elmore&#8217;s been published in The First Line and submitted one of his novels for the Amazon Breakthrough Novel Award.\u00c2\u00a0 I received&hellip; <a class=\"more-link\" href=\"http:\/\/www.amberstults.com\/?p=8\">Continue reading <span class=\"screen-reader-text\">Amazon Breakthrough Novel Award<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[3],"tags":[13],"class_list":["post-8","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-review","tag-award","entry"],"aioseo_notices":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.amberstults.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/8","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.amberstults.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.amberstults.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.amberstults.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.amberstults.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=8"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"http:\/\/www.amberstults.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/8\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.amberstults.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=8"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.amberstults.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=8"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.amberstults.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=8"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}