Tag: Amazon Breakthrough Novel Award

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SWALLOW IS A GOLD MEDALIST!

In Independent Publisher‘s Living Now Book Awards, in the category of Women’s Fiction. I’m so happy! Happy Earth Day, everyone!

Also, check out the other medalists — in all the categories, but particularly in my own. Stressed in Scottsdale by Marcia Fine and Shaken and Stirred by Crystal Black Davis both look very entertaining as well as enlightening. And Stressed is set in my old neck of the woods!

Independently published and small press-published books face an enormous uphill battle both in the marketplace and in terms of gaining acceptance within the greater publishing industry (despite the fact that a small press novel won this year’s Pulitzer). I’m immensely grateful to publications like Independent Publisher and ForeWord, and Amazon’s Breakthrough Novel Award (open for the first time this year to self-published books) for their invaluable recognition and support.

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SWALLOW IS A FINALIST IN THE LIVING NOW BOOK AWARDS

My novel has just been named a finalist in the Living Now Book Awards, in the category of Women’s Fiction. This is a new contest (last year was its first year; this is the first year they’ve accepted fiction) run by Independent Publisher, a literary review devoted to indie publishers. These awards recognize “lifestyle” books intended for the North American market that “enhance the quality of our lives” and help us to live better. (Click on the above link to see other finalists in other categories.) Winners will be announced on Earth Day, April 22nd, and awards will be given on May 25th at Book Expo America, held this year here in NYC.

May 25th at BEA is going to be a big day for me: in addition to this award, the winners of ForeWord Magazine‘s Book of the Year Award will be announced as will the finalists in the Amazon Breakthrough Novel Award. It’s going to be my first time attending a book expo and I’m really excited about it! Will def do a lot of live Tweeting from the expo!

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SWALLOW IS A QUARTERFINALIST IN THE AMAZON BREAKTHROUGH NOVEL AWARD!

You guys! My novel is a quarterfinalist in this year’s Amazon Breakthrough Novel Award in the adult fiction category! That means you can download an excerpt here for free (you don’t need a Kindle, you can download right onto your computer), read it and (I think) rate it and comment on it. Please please please please do! I am told there will be a Publishers Weekly review up there soon. Yikes!

Also I would ever ever ever so greatly appreciate if anyone who’s already bought the book and read it (you wonderful wonderful people!) and emailed / Facebook messaged / Twitter DM’d me with their comments, if you would please write a little review with those comments on the book’s main Amazon page, here. If you can’t remember what you said, please email me and I’ll send you your email — I have them all saved, believe me 😀

This is so cool — am very excited; the pool of applicants was originally 10,000 (evenly divided between adult and young adult), then narrowed down to 2,000 and now narrowed to 500. So I’m up against 250 others in the adult fiction category. This is a huge award and of course I’d be silly to get my hopes up too high – being a quarterfinalist makes me extremely happy!

But it’s fun ‘cuz now everyone can participate in my book in a way, and in the general contest. Again, go here to see my book’s excerpt, and go here to see the others in my category, and here for all categories (look on left-hand side of screen). And of course my book in full is still available for purchase – for $3.99 on Kindle and $14.99 (or cheaper if used)  in paperback.

Thank you so much you guys!