{"id":928,"date":"2010-02-25T18:39:12","date_gmt":"2010-02-25T23:39:12","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/bluepyramid.org\/storey\/?p=928"},"modified":"2010-02-25T18:39:12","modified_gmt":"2010-02-25T23:39:12","slug":"american-dream-on-advances-in-abna","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"http:\/\/bluepyramid.org\/storey\/archives\/928","title":{"rendered":"American Dream On Advances in ABNA!"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>About an hour ago, it was announced that <i>American Dream On<\/i> had bested 80% of its competition in the General Fiction category of the <a href=\"http:\/\/amazon.com\/abna\">Amazon Breakthrough Novel Award<\/a> and has <a href=\"http:\/\/g-ecx.images-amazon.com\/images\/G\/01\/books\/ABNA\/General_Fiction_2nd_Round_entries_2010.pdf\">moved on to the second round<\/a>.<\/p>\n<p>Given that was based exclusively on the pitch I wrote, which I had the least confidence in of all elements (pitch, excerpt, manuscript), I&#8217;m wildly excited to be through to the next round.  Not only does this mean that I have a chance of continuing on toward winning the contest and getting a contract with Penguin, but it means I&#8217;ve written a compelling pitch statement that can be used for other submission prospects.<\/p>\n<p>Woooooo!<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>About an hour ago, it was announced that American Dream On had bested 80% of its competition in the General Fiction category of the Amazon Breakthrough Novel Award and has moved on to the second round. Given that was based exclusively on the pitch I wrote, which I had the least confidence in of all [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[48,32],"tags":[5,72],"class_list":["post-928","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-a-day-in-the-life","category-telling-stories","tag-a-day-in-the-life","tag-telling-stories"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"http:\/\/bluepyramid.org\/storey\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/928","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"http:\/\/bluepyramid.org\/storey\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"http:\/\/bluepyramid.org\/storey\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/bluepyramid.org\/storey\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/bluepyramid.org\/storey\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=928"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"http:\/\/bluepyramid.org\/storey\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/928\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":929,"href":"http:\/\/bluepyramid.org\/storey\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/928\/revisions\/929"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"http:\/\/bluepyramid.org\/storey\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=928"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/bluepyramid.org\/storey\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=928"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/bluepyramid.org\/storey\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=928"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}