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Just a short blog about ABNA

2/27/2014

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I have just finished submitting the final draft of The Talented to the Amazon Breakthrough Novel Award and the relief from that has been huge. That stress has been hanging over me for weeks, and now that the final draft is done and submitted I can wait with some semblance of calm and peace until March 18th to see if I made it through the pitch round.


On one hand, I'm not worried about the pitch round because that pitch has gotten me through the last two ABNA contests, but on the other hand I realize that out of all of the rounds of the contest, it is the pitch round that is a crap-shoot.


But what's done is done, what's past is prologue, and the next 20 days will be spent waiting semi-patiently until my 1st round fate is decided.


Of course, I'll keep stalking the ABNA boards, but that is more for fun than anything.


Best of luck to everyone in the other four categories and 499 of the people that entered the fantasy/sci-fi/horror category with me (sorry you other 1,500, but I'm not a good enough person to wish all of you luck and keep no spot open for myself. I'm a bit more Howard Roark than altruist. 
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