GoodeReader reported recently on the announcement of the upcoming Amazon Breakthrough Novel Awards, which opens for submissions next month. This year's staging of the competition, however, carries with it several key changes to the contest guidelines and the prizes for the winners. Daphne Durham, editor-in-chief of Amazon Publishing, and Libby Johnson McKee, the Managing … [Read more...] about ABNA Awards Open to More Categories, More Authors
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Indie Books as Collectible Literature?
With more and more self-published authors getting "discovered" by the traditional publishing industry and in many cases having their originally self-published books redistributed by a major publishing house, what becomes of those few original copies that readers came to love from the very beginning? While many of those books never saw ink or paper, having originally grown in … [Read more...] about Indie Books as Collectible Literature?
ABNA Winner Alan Averill on Publication
The Amazon Breakthrough Novel Awards offer opportunities for authors of various fiction genres to compete for a publishing contract and advance in two categories, general fiction and young adult fiction. GoodeReader spoke to both the young adult fiction winner, Regina Sirois, and the general fiction winner, Alan Averill, and both authors had a striking similarity: complete … [Read more...] about ABNA Winner Alan Averill on Publication
The Amazon Breakthrough Novel Award Is Down to the Final Six
Amazon.com’s annual awards for new authors, the Amazon Breakthrough Novel Awards, have been carefully whittled away from the thousands of entries in each of the two categories—fiction and young adult fiction—to come to a final six submissions. Three authors from each of the two fields received word today that their entries had been selected for the final phase of the … [Read more...] about The Amazon Breakthrough Novel Award Is Down to the Final Six
Elle Lothlorien, CreateSpace Start Alternate Ending Trend
While the feelings in the industry about fan fiction are mixed—some authors see it as flattering while others feel that using existing copyrighted characters and story lines is akin to piracy—a new trend in writing has opened up, thanks to the availability of digital publishing and print-on-demand. Authors are now able to discover where their reading fans would like to see the … [Read more...] about Elle Lothlorien, CreateSpace Start Alternate Ending Trend
Indie Authors and Reference Updates
GoodEReader’s Indie Author Initiative has spent nearly a year exploring the various reasons that authors choose to self-publish their works. Sometimes there are logistical reasons, such as the timeliness of subject matter. Occasionally, authors have explained the many creative process reasons that led them to self-publish, such as the desire to set the release date, design the … [Read more...] about Indie Authors and Reference Updates
ABNA’s Opportunity for Indie Authors
It’s still nearly a month away, but the 2012 ABNA—or Amazon Breakthrough Novel Award—deadline is looming around the corner for the 10,000 authors who will submit their manuscripts in hopes of garnering the grand prize in their category, namely a publishing contract with Penguin Group and a $15,000 advance. As in recent years, the 2012 ABNA, sponsored in part by CreateSpace, … [Read more...] about ABNA’s Opportunity for Indie Authors
The Timing of Indie Publishing
With the new opportunities arising from the various platforms in publishing, authors and industry executives alike are seeing an increase in the ability to get timely works to market. Whether it is biographies of notorious figures or journalists’ perspectives on the most recent uprisings, digital publishing has allowed readers to enjoy more relevant works at a faster rate by … [Read more...] about The Timing of Indie Publishing
CreateSpace Makes Self-Publishing Visually Easier
Amazon’s self-publishing print-on-demand platform, CreateSpace, offers a variety of features for indie authors to see their books come to life. While Kindle Direct Publishing provides authors with the ability to publish and sell their ebooks, CreateSpace makes print editions of authors’ works possible. Now, CreateSpace has developed an entirely new tool for indie authors … [Read more...] about CreateSpace Makes Self-Publishing Visually Easier
NaNoWriMo Kicks Off Today
NaNoWriMo, the nickname of the more aptly titled National Novel Writing Month, is a month-long challenge every November for the past thirteen years that draws would-be authors numbering in the hundreds of thousands. The goal is simple: to write a 50,000-word novel in thirty days or less. Growing from one individual and a handful of like-minded friends in 1999 to over 250,000 … [Read more...] about NaNoWriMo Kicks Off Today