Monday evening at midnight, it will be too late. Take advantage of Valentine’s Day to spend a romantic evening, but deliver your manuscript on the imposed theme of conquest to us before
. This is indeed the theme chosen, in this election year, for the third edition of the 20 minutes of the novel, which previously saw the triumph Moon black by Estelle Tolliac in 2020 and The Final Frontier
by Giselda Gargano in 2021.
Among you, readers keen on writing, who have signed one of the 300 texts that we have already received (we hope another fifty by Monday evening), there are as many authors as female authors, in a very wide age range from 18 to 83 years old.
One in five manuscripts is an adventure novel
And among all these texts, a spectacular number of adventure novels (20%), the theme of “conquest” lending itself well. Contemporary literature, noir novels (thrillers and thrillers) and imaginary genres (fantasy, fantastic and SF) each also make up 20%. And the other genres (historical, romance, autobiographical, regional, etc.) bring together the last 20%… The sentimental angle for dealing with “conquest” therefore appears relatively marginal. Remember that a selection of ten to twelve manuscripts will be made initially byNew Authors , our partner who will publish the book at the end of the year. The jury of the “Prize 20 minutes of the novel”, chaired by Maxime Chattam, our sponsor surrounded by journalists from the editorial staff and readers of the platform “ 20 minutes
books”, will take over from the spring. All that remains is to determine the four finalists, then the winner whose name will be revealed at the end of August and whose novel will be published at the end of the year.
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