Breakthrough at Amazon!

Well, here is one way to get yourself noticed...

Amazon and Penguin have announced that they will sponsor a second Breakthrough Novel Award.

From Publisher's Weekly:

Amazon and Penguin will sponsor a second annual Amazon Breakthrough Novel Award. The competition will launch on February 2, 2009. Between then and February 8, writers with an unpublished English-language novel manuscript can submit their work at www.amazon.com/abna. As they did last year, PW reviewers will participate in the review process. Last year’s competition awarded Bill Loehfelm with the grand prize, from a pool of 5,000 entrants. Putnam published Loehfelm’s novel, Fresh Kills, in August 2008.

The winner of the contest will be announced on May 22, 2009, and will receive a publishing contract with Penguin, which includes a $25,000 advance.

So get your manyscript polished up and send it in!