{"id":332,"date":"2014-03-18T18:35:20","date_gmt":"2014-03-18T18:35:20","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/richardabbott.authorsxpress.com\/?p=332"},"modified":"2014-03-18T18:35:20","modified_gmt":"2014-03-18T18:35:20","slug":"round-2-abna","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"http:\/\/richardabbott.datascenesdev.com\/blog\/index.php\/2014\/03\/18\/round-2-abna\/","title":{"rendered":"Round 2 &#8211; Amazon Breakthrough Novel Award"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>I just found out that <em>Scenes from a Life<\/em> has made it through to round 2 of the Amazon Breakthrough Novel Award (<a href=\"http:\/\/www.amazon.com\/b?node=332264011\" title=\"ABNA main page\" target=\"_blank\">http:\/\/www.amazon.com\/b?node=332264011<\/a>)<\/p>\n<p>This means that it was in the top 400 in the <em>General Fiction<\/em> category (there was no historical fiction option). Making it to round 2 means that the short &#8216;pitch&#8217; was good enough&#8230; this time around the &#8216;excerpt&#8217; section, ie the first few thousand words, gets to be assessed.<\/p>\n<p>There is now about a month in which the number gets whittled down to a total of 500 across all five categories&#8230;<\/p>\n<p><img decoding=\"async\" src=\"http:\/\/www.kephrath.com\/images\/ScenesFromALifeCoverSmall.jpg\" alt=\"Scenes from a Life cover\" \/><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>I just found out that Scenes from a Life has made it through to round 2 of the Amazon Breakthrough Novel Award (http:\/\/www.amazon.com\/b?node=332264011) This means that it was in the top 400 in the General Fiction category (there was no historical fiction option). Making it to round 2 means that the short &#8216;pitch&#8217; was good &hellip; <a href=\"http:\/\/richardabbott.datascenesdev.com\/blog\/index.php\/2014\/03\/18\/round-2-abna\/\" class=\"more-link\">Continue reading <span class=\"screen-reader-text\">Round 2 &#8211; Amazon Breakthrough Novel Award<\/span> <span class=\"meta-nav\">&rarr;<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[19],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-332","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-scenes-from-a-life"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"http:\/\/richardabbott.datascenesdev.com\/blog\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/332","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"http:\/\/richardabbott.datascenesdev.com\/blog\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"http:\/\/richardabbott.datascenesdev.com\/blog\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/richardabbott.datascenesdev.com\/blog\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/richardabbott.datascenesdev.com\/blog\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=332"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"http:\/\/richardabbott.datascenesdev.com\/blog\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/332\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"http:\/\/richardabbott.datascenesdev.com\/blog\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=332"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/richardabbott.datascenesdev.com\/blog\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=332"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/richardabbott.datascenesdev.com\/blog\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=332"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}