Competition Time.Get your book in print with Kazoo and RTÉ

Competition Time!

Get your book in print with Kazoo and RTÉ

Do you have the next international bestseller hidden away in a drawer? Fancy yourself as EL James or Roddy Doyle? This is your chance to step into the limelight!
Kazoo is teaming up with the RTÉ Guide and the John Murray Show to offer you the opportunity to publish your book and make it big on the literary scene.
With independent authors now regularly hitting the Amazon bestseller lists, self-publishing has become hugely attractive to writers who want to earn higher royalties, retain the rights to their work and take advantage of social media to promote their books.
The Kazoo team has over 50 years’ experience in trade publishing and we’ll help you join the ranks of successful indie authors by turning your manuscript into a professionally produced book and eBook. Your work will be edited, typeset and printed to the highest publishing-industry standards and you’ll work with a designer to create a unique and eye-catching cover.
So send us your entry and you could soon be seeing your name on the cover of your bestseller!

The Prize

• Professional cover design, including provision of cover image
• Professional typesetting and interior layout design
• Consultation with editor
• Copy-edit
• Proofread
• Upload to all eBook retailers, including Amazon and the iBookstore
• Listing on Nielsen Bookscan
• 200 printed copies of the book
• Marketing consultation
• Author page on www.writing.ie

Entrants must submit an original, unpublished manuscript of up to 100,000 words in length. This can be fiction or non-fiction, for children or adults, but it cannot be an illustrated book. Your submission must be a completed manuscript; we want to see the whole book!
To enter, please fill out the form below and upload your manuscript in MS Word format.
Do not send a printout of your manuscript as entries received by post will not be accepted and cannot be returned.
The closing date for receipt of entries is Sunday, 30 June 2013 at midnight. Manuscripts received after this date will not be accepted.
The winner will be selected by an independent panel of judges (bestselling author and director Ferdia Mac Anna, bestselling author Sarah Webb and Bob Johnston of the Gutter Bookshop), and will be announced on the John Murray Show in August 2013.

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A New Year Gift that will last.

A New Year's gift  from  Anam Cara.

Whatever you got for Christmas -this promises to be the gift that will top it.
Every Monday you will recieve a gift, a combination of poetry and art.
What a great way to start the week, the month , and a creative new year.

MAY YOUR NEW YEAR DAWN JOYOUS AND BRIGHT!

Beara Sunrise                                              Matthew Higgins     Anam Cara Writer's and Artist's Retreat Eyeries, Beara, Co. Cork, Ireland       Beginning on 1 January 2013, a different combination of poetry and art from Ireland will be delivered free to your inbox, each Monday until July.  Called The Poetry Project, twenty-six poems and twenty-six video shorts will offer you a unique insight into the creativity of contemporary Ireland.  Each poem is a taste of the best of Irish poetry now, while the videos (none are longer than three minutes) offer a parallel way of looking at things. Brought together, the results will intrigue you, move you, and maybe make you look at the world in a different way.  The Poetry Project was set up by the Kinsale Arts Festival in partnership with Poetry Ireland and the Royal Hibernian Academy and is supported by Culture Ireland.    To sign up to receive this unique gift, go to  www.thepoetryproject.ie