Made it to the second round of the Amazon Breakthrough Novel Contest

Yep, along with about 2,000 other people. Still, at least this means my pitch--the first round of selection was done on the basis of  a 300 word pitch--was not completely horrible. I'm not sure I'll get through the second round (which is done on the basis of the first few chapters of the novel). At least one of the agents who has rejected me said, basic…