Two leading booksellers have added another brick in the wall of the industry’s unending search for budding talent by announcing literary competitions among aspiring writers.
The Amazon Breakthrough Novel Award has been anounced by the Amazon.com, Penguin Group (USA) and Hewlett-Packard Co. The award includes a contract with Penguin and a small advance, $25,000.
Meanwhile, Borders Group Inc., Court TV and Gather.com announced The Next Great Crime Novel competition, with the winner receiving $5,000 and a publishing deal through Borders, the superstore chain.
With an indefinite number of books being written every year and even greater number of books never been published, both these contests would be a stepping stone in the process of discovering a new and talented novelist. It would be serving as a platform for those writers who have been searching for an opportunity to start off with.
However, there are also certain lacunas in such contests. The popularity of the contests and the public attention derived is very unpredictable. There are certain examples where such contests could not generate much interest among the masses
Moreover, the success of the winning entries is not always guaranteed.
Better response is expected of The Amazon award. Authors with ‘an unpublished English-language novel manuscript’ can submit their work till November 5 for this contest and there is no entry fee.
Amazon’s leading customer reviewers will analyze the manuscripts and industry professionals are the judges for the contest.
The winner, to be announced April 7, 2008, who will also receive an additional gift 50-inch plasma TV and a PhotoSmart Digital camera from HP.
The Next Great Crime Novel competition too has no entry fee and the last date for submitting manuscripts is Nov. 11.Experts would judge the entries and the winner would be announced Feb. 4, 2008
More information : http://www.latestbooks.org/
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