Three Days to the Quarter-Finals
On Tuesday, March 23rd, the quarter-finalists will be announced for the Amazon Breakthrough Novel Awards. This step narrows the field from 1,000 to 250. Over the past few weeks a team of 100 reviewers from Amazon have each been assigned 40 exerpts to evaluate. They scored the excerpts based upon a standardized rating scale. Each excerpt was scored by two reviewers. The top 250 scores will move to the next round.
Here’s what will happen if Pleroma makes it to the Quarter finals:
(copied from the ABNA rules)
(Quarter Finals (March 23, 2010 – April 26, 2010).
(1) On or about March 23, 2010, we will post each of the Quarterfinalists’ Excerpts and their associated written reviews online at www.amazon.com/abna.
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 Quarterfinalist’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 (a through e in this subsection D (3), “Judging Criteria”).These reviews will be posted within each Entrant’s www.CreateSpace.com account on or about April 27, 2010.
(4) The top 50 Entries from each category will advance to the Semifinals (each, a “Semifinalist”). The Semifinalists will be determined by ranking each Quarterfinalist Entry based on the average Judging Criteria score given to each Quarterfinalist Entry by Publishers Weekly. We reserve the right to advance fewer than 50 Entries from each category to the Semifinals if, in our sole discretion, we do not receive a sufficient number of eligible and qualified Entries. If a tiebreaker is needed to determine the 50th Semifinalist in each category, the following methods will be used:
1st tiebreaker: Highest Overall Strength of Excerpt score
2nd tiebreaker: Highest Prose/Style score
3rd tiebreaker: Highest Plot score
4th tiebreaker: Highest Character Development score
5th tiebreaker: Highest Originality of Idea score
6th tiebreaker: Amazon editorial decision
I’ll let you know how it goes!
Date: March 20, 2010
