Alan Zendell's Blog: It's About Time - Posts Tagged "amazon"

Making the first cut in the Amazon Create Space Breakthrough Novel contest (http://g-ecx.images-amazon.com/images...) with "The Portal" has improved my outlook somewhat. Logically I know that one in a thousand is a lot better than one in five-thousand, but emotionally it still seems like a big mountain to climb. The next milestone is March 20th, when they publish the list of 500 quarter finalists. One in five-hundred still feels like a long shot, but if I get there I'll be quite pleased.

The other milestone is the 2011 Compton-Crook competition. The winners won't be announced until Balticon on Memorial Day weekend, but by mid-March I ought to be able to get a reading on how well "Wednesday's Child" is doing in the preliminary scoring.

I'm not ready to be heavily invested in either, but it's exciting to contemplate.