{"id":4619,"date":"2011-03-22T11:54:33","date_gmt":"2011-03-22T17:54:33","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.onelowerlight.com\/writing\/?p=4619"},"modified":"2011-03-22T14:30:47","modified_gmt":"2011-03-22T20:30:47","slug":"quarter-finalist-aaahhhh","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.onelowerlight.com\/writing\/quarter-finalist-aaahhhh\/","title":{"rendered":"Quarter Finalist?  AAAHHHH!!!"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><a href=\"https:\/\/www.onelowerlight.com\/writing\/wp-content\/uploads\/2011\/03\/abna_110._V192196708_.gif\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"alignleft size-full wp-image-4620\" title=\"abna_110._V192196708_\" src=\"https:\/\/www.onelowerlight.com\/writing\/wp-content\/uploads\/2011\/03\/abna_110._V192196708_.gif\" alt=\"\" width=\"100\" height=\"100\" \/><\/a>Holy crap, <em>Genesis Earth <\/em>made the quarter finals for the 2011 Amazon Breakthrough Novel Award contest!<\/p>\n<p>That means that it&#8217;s one of 250 other entries that will go on to the next round of voting.\u00a0 The grand prize is a publishing contract with Penguin for a $15k advance.<\/p>\n<p>I&#8217;m happy to see I&#8217;m not the only old time Quarkie to make the cut; <a href=\"http:\/\/46dogs.blogspot.com\/\">Drek <\/a>also made it, with his novel <em>Fires of Besowin.<\/em> We&#8217;re having something of a friendly competition with this contest, but I think it&#8217;s pretty dang awesome that the two of us made it this far.\u00a0 Best of luck on the next round; I have a feeling we&#8217;re both going to need it&#8230;<\/p>\n<p>The 50 finalists will be announced April 26nd.\u00a0 Until then, wish me luck!<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Holy crap, Genesis Earth made the quarter finals for the 2011 Amazon Breakthrough Novel Award contest! That means that it&#8217;s one of 250 other entries that will go on to the next round of voting.\u00a0 The grand prize is a publishing contract with Penguin for a $15k advance. I&#8217;m happy to see I&#8217;m not the&hellip; <a class=\"more-link\" href=\"https:\/\/www.onelowerlight.com\/writing\/quarter-finalist-aaahhhh\/\">Continue reading <span class=\"screen-reader-text\">Quarter Finalist?  AAAHHHH!!!<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"jetpack_post_was_ever_published":false,"_jetpack_newsletter_access":"","_jetpack_dont_email_post_to_subs":false,"_jetpack_newsletter_tier_id":0,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paywalled_content":false,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paid_content":false,"footnotes":"","jetpack_publicize_message":"","jetpack_publicize_feature_enabled":true,"jetpack_social_post_already_shared":false,"jetpack_social_options":{"image_generator_settings":{"template":"highway","default_image_id":0,"font":"","enabled":false},"version":2}},"categories":[32],"tags":[528,164,124,122],"class_list":["post-4619","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-ge","tag-2011-amazon-breakthrough-novel-award","tag-contests","tag-drek","tag-friends","entry"],"jetpack_publicize_connections":[],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"","jetpack_shortlink":"https:\/\/wp.me\/p7iXK-1cv","jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"jetpack_likes_enabled":true,"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.onelowerlight.com\/writing\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/4619","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.onelowerlight.com\/writing\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.onelowerlight.com\/writing\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.onelowerlight.com\/writing\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.onelowerlight.com\/writing\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=4619"}],"version-history":[{"count":8,"href":"https:\/\/www.onelowerlight.com\/writing\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/4619\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":4627,"href":"https:\/\/www.onelowerlight.com\/writing\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/4619\/revisions\/4627"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.onelowerlight.com\/writing\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=4619"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.onelowerlight.com\/writing\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=4619"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.onelowerlight.com\/writing\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=4619"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}