Deep River Books (a Christian self-publisher) is looking for the next bestselling book to publish from a new author. We are offering a $1000 cash prize to the best manuscript submitted and accepted for publishing. We are also offering a $500 award for the second and third place manuscripts accepted in these categories for publication.  “Certificates of Merit” will be awarded for runner up contestants whose manuscripts are of merit but do not win the $1000 cash prize.

Contest deadline: January 31, 2012 . Email entries only. No entry fee, but only one manuscript entry per author.

Non-Fiction manuscripts must be a minimum of 30,000 words, maximum 90,000 words. Fiction manuscripts must be at least 40,000 words, maximum 100,000 words. Children's books are exempt from the word count rule, but should be accompanied by samples of illustrations from your illustrator.

For more details: http://www.deepriverbooks.contest.html