{"id":4382,"date":"2017-08-22T11:43:05","date_gmt":"2017-08-22T18:43:05","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.freedomwithwriting.com\/freedom\/?p=4382"},"modified":"2017-08-23T10:15:54","modified_gmt":"2017-08-23T17:15:54","slug":"amazons-pen-to-publish-contest-15000-prize","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.freedomwithwriting.com\/freedom\/uncategorized\/amazons-pen-to-publish-contest-15000-prize\/","title":{"rendered":"Amazon&#8217;s Pen to Publish Contest ($15,000 Prize)"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Amazon recently launched a writing contest aimed at winning over readers in India. The contest has a prize of one million Indian Rupees, worth around $15,000 USD.<\/p>\n<p>The contest is open to all books published in English on Amazon.in<\/p>\n<p>The winner will be selected by a panel of judges.<\/p>\n<p>Entry into the contest does require publishing your book on the Amazon Kindle, which would likely kill your chances of getting a traditional publishing contract for the book. However, if you were planning on self publishing, and your book is a good match for an Indian audience, then it is likely worth it to enter the competition.<\/p>\n<p>The deadline for entry is November 10th, 2017.<\/p>\n<p>To learn more, read the <a href=\"http:\/\/www.amazon.in\/b?ie=UTF8&amp;node=13819037031\">contest guidelines.<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Amazon recently launched a writing contest aimed at winning over readers in India. The contest has a prize of one million Indian Rupees, worth around $15,000 USD. The contest is open to all books published in English on Amazon.in The winner will be selected by a panel of judges. Entry into the contest does require&#8230;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":4388,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[1],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-4382","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-uncategorized"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.freedomwithwriting.com\/freedom\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/4382","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.freedomwithwriting.com\/freedom\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.freedomwithwriting.com\/freedom\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.freedomwithwriting.com\/freedom\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.freedomwithwriting.com\/freedom\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=4382"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/www.freedomwithwriting.com\/freedom\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/4382\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":4383,"href":"https:\/\/www.freedomwithwriting.com\/freedom\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/4382\/revisions\/4383"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.freedomwithwriting.com\/freedom\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/4388"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.freedomwithwriting.com\/freedom\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=4382"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.freedomwithwriting.com\/freedom\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=4382"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.freedomwithwriting.com\/freedom\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=4382"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}