{"id":6038,"date":"2010-02-25T21:47:41","date_gmt":"2010-02-26T03:47:41","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.epictales.org\/treskillard\/2010\/02\/25\/amazon_breakthrough_novel_award_update\/"},"modified":"2010-02-25T21:47:41","modified_gmt":"2010-02-26T03:47:41","slug":"amazon_breakthrough_novel_award_update","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"http:\/\/www.epictales.org\/treskillard\/2010\/02\/25\/amazon_breakthrough_novel_award_update\/","title":{"rendered":"Amazon Breakthrough Novel Award Update"},"content":{"rendered":"<div style=\"float:left; margin-right:10px; margin-bottom:10px\"><img data-recalc-dims=\"1\" decoding=\"async\" src=\"https:\/\/i0.wp.com\/www.EpicTales.org\/images\/ABNA.jpg?w=1200\" alt=\"ABNA\" title=\"ABNA\" \/><\/div>\n<p><strong>By God&#8217;s grace, <a href=\"http:\/\/epictales.org\/HammerAndStone.htm\">MERLIN&#8217;S BLADE<\/a> MADE IT!<\/strong> It is now one of the 1,000 Young Adult novels selected to go on to the next round.<\/p>\n<p><strong>Keep in mind, however, that this judgment was only based on my pitch<\/strong>, and not the book itself.  Now Amazon Editors will read my first three chapters and decide which 250 get to move on to the next round, which begins March 23rd.<\/p>\n<p>Two other compatriots also made it:<\/p>\n<ul>\n<li><strong><a href=\"http:\/\/www.sdsmith.net\/\">S.D. Smith ~ Shadwell<\/a><\/strong><\/li>\n<li><strong><a href=\"http:\/\/thefiddlersgun.com\/\">Pete Peterson ~ Fiddler&#8217;s Gun<\/a><\/strong><\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<p>If anyone else I know made it, let me know and I&#8217;ll add you to the list!<\/p>\n<p><strong>Also, my <a href=\"http:\/\/authonomy.com\/ViewBook.aspx?bookid=16607\">Authonomy.com<\/a> ranking has climbed<\/strong> during the last 3 days from around the mid-40s to the mid-20s.  No, I am nowhere near the top 5 in the Christian section, but I&#8217;m a lot closer than I thought I would be!  Maybe next month, or the month after that.<\/p>\n<p>Views: 19<\/p>","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<div class=\"entry-summary\">\nBy God&#8217;s grace, MERLIN&#8217;S BLADE MADE IT! It is now one of the 1,000 Young Adult novels selected to go&hellip;\n<\/div>\n<div class=\"link-more\"><a href=\"http:\/\/www.epictales.org\/treskillard\/2010\/02\/25\/amazon_breakthrough_novel_award_update\/\" class=\"more-link\">Continue reading<span class=\"screen-reader-text\"> &ldquo;Amazon Breakthrough Novel Award Update&rdquo;<\/span>&hellip;<\/a><\/div>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":6039,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"jetpack_post_was_ever_published":false,"_jetpack_newsletter_access":"","_jetpack_dont_email_post_to_subs":false,"_jetpack_newsletter_tier_id":0,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paywalled_content":false,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paid_content":false,"footnotes":"","jetpack_publicize_message":"","jetpack_publicize_feature_enabled":true,"jetpack_social_post_already_shared":true,"jetpack_social_options":{"image_generator_settings":{"template":"highway","default_image_id":0,"font":"","enabled":false},"version":2}},"categories":[13,14,9,28,68],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-6038","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-the-merlin-spiral","category-1-merlins-blade","category-announcements","category-on-writing-fiction","category-writing-contests","entry"],"jetpack_publicize_connections":[],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"https:\/\/i0.wp.com\/www.epictales.org\/treskillard\/wp-content\/uploads\/2015\/05\/ABNA7.jpg?fit=210%2C212","jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"jetpack_shortlink":"https:\/\/wp.me\/p67v0M-1zo","_links":{"self":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.epictales.org\/treskillard\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/6038","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.epictales.org\/treskillard\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.epictales.org\/treskillard\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.epictales.org\/treskillard\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.epictales.org\/treskillard\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=6038"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"http:\/\/www.epictales.org\/treskillard\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/6038\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.epictales.org\/treskillard\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/6039"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.epictales.org\/treskillard\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=6038"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.epictales.org\/treskillard\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=6038"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.epictales.org\/treskillard\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=6038"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}