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DEADLINE AUGUST 19, 2011Family Wellness Day Expo, Cobourg’s largest showcase of natural health/wellness, alternative medicine and green living lifestyles. Its mandate is to educate and inspire others in the community to live healthy, positive, conscious lives, and come together to learn, grow and have fun!
Family Wellness Day Expo on Saturday April 6th 2013—from 10 am to 4 pm at the Cobourg Community Centre.
11:30 AM How to Handle Bullying - Janet Irvine
2012 National Conference on Bullying Orlando, Florida Feb 2012
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FINAL RESULTS
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.), or the United Kingdom.
CONTEST JUDGING PROCESS.
A. Submission Period (January 24, 2011 – February 6, 2011).The young adult fiction category and the adult fiction category are each limited to 5,000 Entries.
B. First Round (February 7, 2011 – February 22, 2011).Between February 7, 2011 and February 22, 2011, our editors will read the Pitch for each Valid Entry. Our editors will select the top 1,000 Entries from each category to advance to the second round by rating each Pitch on the following three criteria: originality of idea, overall strength of the Pitch, and the quality of writing.
C. Second Round (February 24, 2011 – March 13, 2011).(1) Between February 24, 2011 and March 13, 2011, our expert reviewers, including Amazon editors and at least one Amazon Top Reviewer, will review and judge the Excerpts of each second round Entry. The expert reviewers rate each Excerpt on a scale of 1 to 5 on each of the following criteria:
a) Overall Strength of Excerpt
b) Prose/Style
c) Plot/Hook
d) Originality of Idea
(2) Each second round Excerpt will receive two reviews, and the top 250 Entries from each category based on the average Overall Strength of Excerpt score will advance to the Quarter-Finals (each, a "Quarter Finalist).
D. Quarter Finals (March 22, 2011 – April 25, 2011).(1) On or about March 22, 2011, we will post each of the Quarter-Finalists’ Excerpts and their associated written reviews online at www.amazon.com/abna.
(2) Amazon customers may download and read any Excerpt, and then write a review and rate the Excerpt using Amazon.com’s process for submitting online reviews (as described at http://www.amazon.com/gp/customer-reviews/guidelines/review-guidelines.html).
(3) For each Quarter Finalist’s Manuscript, Publishers Weekly will read, prepare a review, and rate each Manuscript on a scale of 1 to 5 on the following criteria:
a) Character development
b) Originality of idea
c) Plot
d) Prose/style
e) Overall strength of submission (a through e in this subsection D (3), "Judging Criteria").
These reviews will be posted within each Entrant’s www.CreateSpace.com account on or about April 26, 2011.
(4) The top 50 Entries from each category will advance to the Semi-Finals (each, a "Semi-Finalist").
The Semi-Finalists will be determined by ranking each Quarter Finalist Entry based on the average Judging Criteria score given to each Quarter Finalist Entry by Publishers Weekly.
E. Semi-Finals (April 26, 2011 – May 23, 2011).
(1) We will post the names of the Semi-Finalists on Amazon.com, along with their respective Publishers Weekly review on or about April 26, 2011.
(2) The Penguin judging panel, consisting of qualified representatives selected by Penguin, will review the Manuscript and the accompanying reviews of each Semi-Finalist Entry to select 3 finalists in each category (each, a “Finalist”) using the Judging Criteria.
(3) On or about May 16, 2011, we will begin notifying potential Finalists by phone or e-mail. The Finalists will be announced on www.amazon.com/abna on or about May 24, 2011.
F. Finalist Period (May 24, 2011 – June 1, 2011).
(1) Customer Voting. After the Finalists are announced, the voting phase to determine the Winner of each category will begin and will continue through June 1, 2011 at 11:59 p.m. (U.S. Eastern Daylight Savings Time). Amazon customers will be able to download and read each Finalist Excerpt, and we may, in our sole discretion, expand each Excerpt by up to 5,000 additional words. Amazon customers will select the Winner by voting for one finalist in each category using the voting mechanism located at www.amazon.com/abna. The Winner in each category will be selected from among the Finalists based on the total number of valid votes we receive from customers. The Finalist receiving the most valid votes in a category will be the potential Winner of that category. Customers must have an account on Amazon.com in order to cast a vote, and customers may only vote once per category. In the event of a tie in either category, we will select the Winner from the tied Finalists based on the Judging Criteria.
(2) Celebrity Reviewing Panel. Each Finalist Manuscript will be read and reviewed by a celebrity reviewing panel. The celebrity reviewing panel for each category will consist of at least one well-known author, one agent, and one editor. In addition, all reviews of the Finalists’ Entries posted online up to the start of the Finalist Period will remain online and available for viewing.
(3) Grand Prize Event. Prior to the announcement of the Winners on or about June 13, 2011, the Finalists will be flown to the Venue in New York, NY (or a different city that we select) for publicity and promotional interviews and an awards ceremony.
When PUSH Comes to Shove Back finished in the top 5%.
