In addition to the many, many query letters to agents and publishers I've been sending out on behalf of "The Unlikely Adventure of Race and Cookie McCloud" (this is the glamourous side of being an unpaid, unpublished writer), I've decided to enter into some contests. The first of those is sponsored by Amazon.com and CreateSpace.com, which is the self-publishing wing of Amazon. There are 5000 entry slots available in the General Fiction category and in the Young Adult Fiction category, with entries closing just this past midnight. I've entered "Race and Cookie" into the YA category, naturally. The first round is just judged on query letters (the one-page missive about your book that you send to agents and such), the second on a 5,000 word excerpt, and the third on the manuscript itself; the winner gets their book published by Penguin Publishing.
What are the odds of winning? Well, I suppose they're 5000 to 1, aren't they? Which, when you think of it, isn't much worse (or any worse) than the odds of getting an agent or publisher to latch onto your project. I've done the contest/community thing before with Project Greenlight and TriggerStreet and Authonomy. I'm certainly not sitting her relying on this, but hey... it's just another thing to try, right?
Like I said: this is the glamourous part.
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