{"id":497,"date":"2011-04-06T00:30:02","date_gmt":"2011-04-06T00:30:02","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.nabourke.com\/?p=497"},"modified":"2011-04-06T00:30:02","modified_gmt":"2011-04-06T00:30:02","slug":"amazon-breakthrough-novel-awardsrupetta","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.perilousadventures.net\/blog\/?p=497","title":{"rendered":"Amazon Breakthrough Novel Awards\/Rupetta"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><img class=\"alignright\" src=\"https:\/\/i2.wp.com\/www.nabourke.com\/images\/bellmer.jpg?w=250\" alt=\"\" data-recalc-dims=\"1\" \/>This year, I entered my draft novel, <em>Rupetta, <\/em>in the Amazon Breakthrough Novel Awards. This is a novel I&#8217;ve been working on for a while. In fact, she grew from a short story I wrote while I was at Clarion South in 2005 (The short story was called &#8216;A Feather on the Breath of God&#8217;, you can read it online at eatbooks, <a href=\"http:\/\/www.eatbooks.com\/edition_1\/feather.html\" target=\"_blank\">here<\/a>).<\/p>\n<p>10,000 entries were received across two categories: adult and young adult fiction. Recently, the quarter finalists were announced: 250 adult novels, of which <em>Rupetta<\/em> is one! The judges prepared reports on all of the quarter finalists (their decision was based on reading the extracts, so the reviews are of the extracts only). Here&#8217;s what one of the judges said about <em>Rupetta<\/em>: <!--more--><\/p>\n<blockquote><p>Rupetta is a thoughtful tale of an intelligent mechanical person in the  1600&#8217;s.  It is told from the perspective of the mechanism.  Rupetta is  somewhat of a philosopher, as she looks back over the humans and events  in her lifetime.  The writing is absolutely exquisite.  It&#8217;s romantic  and evocative and mysterious, and imparts a wonderful atmosphere.  I  would love to hear this excerpt read aloud by a skilled narrator.  I  don&#8217;t have a good feel for where the plot might lead us.   This may be a  quiet, thoughtful tale, or one full of adventure.  It&#8217;s too soon to  tell.  But the writing style and the unique character make me wish I  could read farther, even though I can&#8217;t guess where the story will go.<\/p><\/blockquote>\n<p>You can <a href=\"http:\/\/www.amazon.com\/Rupetta-ebook\/dp\/B004TEYRWK\/ref=pd_rhf_p_t_1\" target=\"_blank\">download a kindle version of the extract I entered from Amazon here<\/a> (You don&#8217;t have to own a kindle: you can download the Kindle App for reading the extract on your PC for free from the site).<\/p>\n<p>Or read it <a title=\"Rupetta \u2013 extract\" href=\"http:\/\/www.nabourke.com\/?page_id=19\">on my website here<\/a>.<\/p>\n<p>If you like what you read, you can post a review on the Amazon site! That would be super wonderful \ud83d\ude42<\/p>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>This year, I entered my draft novel, Rupetta, in the Amazon Breakthrough Novel Awards. This is a novel I&#8217;ve been working on for a while. In fact, she grew from a short story I wrote while I was at Clarion South in 2005 (The short story was called &#8216;A Feather &hellip; <a href=\"https:\/\/www.perilousadventures.net\/blog\/?p=497\">Continue reading <span class=\"meta-nav\">&rarr;<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"spay_email":"","jetpack_publicize_message":"","jetpack_is_tweetstorm":false},"categories":[167],"tags":[325,326,1202],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"","jetpack_publicize_connections":[],"jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"jetpack_shortlink":"https:\/\/wp.me\/p4LH1G-81","_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.perilousadventures.net\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/497"}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.perilousadventures.net\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.perilousadventures.net\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.perilousadventures.net\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.perilousadventures.net\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=497"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.perilousadventures.net\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/497\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.perilousadventures.net\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=497"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.perilousadventures.net\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=497"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.perilousadventures.net\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=497"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}