{"id":63,"date":"2012-02-24T05:52:16","date_gmt":"2012-02-24T05:52:16","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.undergroundmediaware.com\/?p=63"},"modified":"2012-02-24T05:52:16","modified_gmt":"2012-02-24T05:52:16","slug":"amazon-breakthrough-novel-award","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.undergroundmediaware.com\/?p=63","title":{"rendered":"Amazon Breakthrough Novel Award"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>About a month back, I entered <span style=\"text-decoration: underline;\">The Alpha And The Omega<\/span> in the <a href=\"http:\/\/www.amazon.com\/abna\">Amazon Breakthrough Novel Award<\/a> contest.\u00a0 Today, Amazon announced the novels that would proceed to the second round of judging.<\/p>\n<p>And <span style=\"text-decoration: underline;\">The Alpha And The Omega<\/span> didn\u2019t make the cut.<\/p>\n<p>So why am I blogging about it?\u00a0 Because rejection is an integral part of being a writer.\u00a0 For more than two decades, I\u2019ve received a slew of rejection letters from magazine editors, agents, and book publishers.\u00a0 And each and every one of them smarted.<\/p>\n<p>And today, when I realized my name wasn\u2019t on the list of authors progressing to the writing contest\u2019s second round, it likewise stung.\u00a0 But I was surprised to feel another new reaction creeping into my psyche:<\/p>\n<p>\u201cI\u2019ll show them.\u201d<\/p>\n<p>It wasn\u2019t a vindictive sentiment.\u00a0 Quite the opposite, it was triumphant. \u00a0I\u2019ll show those judges that they missed a staggering opportunity by passing on my novel.\u00a0 I\u2019ll show those agents.\u00a0 I\u2019ll show those publishers.\u00a0 And if the entire literary world somehow overlooks <span style=\"text-decoration: underline;\">The Alpha And The Omega<\/span>, I\u2019ll kindly point out their mistake with my next novel.\u00a0 Or the novel after that.\u00a0 Or the novel after that\u2026<\/p>\n<p>I\u2019ll never embrace rejection.\u00a0 But I think I\u2019ve finally learned how to gain strength from it.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>About a month back, I entered The Alpha And The Omega in the Amazon Breakthrough Novel Award contest. Today, Amazon announced the novels that would proceed to the second round of judging.<\/p>\n<p>And The Alpha And The Omega didn\u2019t make the cut.<\/p>\n<p>So why am I blogging about it? Because rejection is an integral part [&#8230;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[1],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-63","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-uncategorized","odd"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.undergroundmediaware.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/63","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.undergroundmediaware.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.undergroundmediaware.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.undergroundmediaware.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.undergroundmediaware.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=63"}],"version-history":[{"count":3,"href":"https:\/\/www.undergroundmediaware.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/63\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":66,"href":"https:\/\/www.undergroundmediaware.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/63\/revisions\/66"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.undergroundmediaware.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=63"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.undergroundmediaware.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=63"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.undergroundmediaware.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=63"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}