Ah, the next step! Here's what's going to happen from now until 26 April when the 50 semi-finalists are announced (below taken from the Amazon Breakthrough Novel Award page):
Quarter Finals (March 22, 2011 – April 25, 2011).
(1) On or about March 22, 2011, we will post each of the Quarter-Finalists’ Excerpts and their associated written reviews online at www.amazon.com/abna. [That should happen soon...]
(2) Amazon customers may download and read any Excerpt, and then write a review and rate the Excerpt using Amazon.com’s process for submitting online reviews (as described at http://www.amazon.com/gp/customer-reviews/guidelines/review-guidelines.html).
(3) For each Quarter Finalist’s Manuscript, Publishers Weekly will read, prepare a review, and rate each Manuscript on a scale of 1 to 5 on the following criteria:
a) Character development
b) Originality of idea
c) Plot
d) Prose/style
e) Overall strength of submission
(4) The top 50 Entries from each category will advance to the Semi-Finals (each, a "Semi-Finalist")
So, the waiting (and finger-crossing) begins...
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