The good news of the Amazon Breakthrough Novel Award is already public knowledge and this post is for the benefit of those who have not been informed.

Be the Next Breakthrough Author!

Are you a writer longing to be discovered? Submit your manuscript for the Amazon Breakthrough Novel Award. It’s the perfect opportunity to become the next great novelist: the winning author will receive a publishing contract from Penguin Group, including promotional support for their book on Amazon.com, and a media suite from Hewlett-Packard. All entrants are eligible to self-publish their novel with CreateSpace and sell it on Amazon.com. Enter your manuscript for consideration by November 5, 2007!


Contest Process and Timeline

Amazon.com is accepting unpublished English language works of fiction for entry in the Amazon Breakthrough Novel Award through November 5, 2007.
Once the submission period ends, Amazon editors and top Amazon customer reviewers will read submissions and select authors for the semi-final round, beginning January 15, 2008. Each semi-finalist will receive a full review of their manuscript by Publishers Weekly and a book page on Amazon.com featuring a short excerpt from their novel that customers can download, read, and review. Penguin will select manuscripts to read from the semi-final round based on customer feedback and Publishers Weekly reviews and announce the Top Ten finalists on March 3, 2008. Amazon.com customers will then select the winner of the Amazon Breakthrough Award, to be announced on April 7, 2008.
Register now and break through! Only the first 5,000 submissions will be accepted. The registration deadline is November 5, 2007.

Prizes

The winner of the Amazon Breakthrough Novel Award will receive a full publishing contract from Penguin Group, including promotional support for their novel on Amazon.com, and a media suite from Hewlett-Packard. The nine remaining finalists will receive a free Total Design Freedom self-publishing package from BookSurge and a media suite from Hewlett-Packard. Semi-finalists will receive a review of their manuscript by Publishers Weekly. Upon conclusion of the contest all entrants will be eligible to make their books available for sale to Amazon.com customers via the CreateSpace self-publishing service at no charge. In addition, all entrants will receive discounted self-publishing services from BookSurge for custom cover design, formatting, and editing.

One important fact interested writers should know which isn't included in the above post is that only residents of the following countries are eligible  to enter the Contest:

Argentina, Australia, Austria, Belgium, Canada (excluding  the Province of Québec), China, Denmark, Finland, Germany, India, Ireland,  Japan, Luxembourg, Malaysia, the Netherlands, New Zealand, Norway, Romania,  South Africa, South Korea, Sweden, Switzerland, the United States (the 50 states  and D.C.), and the United Kingdom.

for crying out loud, why posting this thread when Nigerians could not actually particpate. or should we change our country of birth?

yicob:

for crying out loud, why posting this thread when Nigerians could not actually particpate. or should we change our country of birth?

Not your country of birth. Only the one you reside in. LOL

True Brit:

One important fact interested writers should know which isn't included in the above post is that only residents of the following countries are eligible  to enter the Contest:

Argentina, Australia, Austria, Belgium, Canada (excluding  the Province of Québec), China, Denmark, Finland, Germany, India, Ireland,  Japan, Luxembourg, Malaysia, the Netherlands, New Zealand, Norway, Romania,  South Africa, South Korea, Sweden, Switzerland, the United States (the 50 states  and D.C.), and the United Kingdom.

Do you want the demographic reports of Nigerians resident in the above countres and thousands of them have become citizens?

Thousands of the Nigerians on Nairaland do not live in Africa.

Over 20 members of the Association of Nigerian Authors (ANA) left Nigeria for America and the UK this year.