No Porsche content, but I'm stoked!

[ttweed]

Off topic, but I am pretty excited and want to share this with fellow clubbies.

I just found out that the novel I completed this last year, Beep! Beyond the Frogpond and Back, was selected as a quarterfinalist in the 2009 Amazon Breakthrough Novel Award contest. This means that it was deemed to be in the best 500 out of 10,000 entries, or in the top 5%, which is pretty gratifying.

The next phase is making the semifinals (the top 100 books move on in the judging) on April 15th. All the quarterfinalist excerpts are posted on Amazon Shorts now, so any Amazon customer can download and read my first chapter excerpt (which was used to judge it) for free, and submit a review of it on Amazon at
http://www.amazon.com/dp/B001UG3AFK

If you're interested in checking it out and have any time for such a thing (and have an Amazon account), customer reviews of the excerpt are considered in the next round of judging and would be appreciated.

Thx,
TT

[mrondeau]

Tom,
Congratulations!!! Good luck in the next round.

[ttweed]

Thanks, Mark! It's going to get really tough from here. There are a lot of good entries, some from pro writers. To get to the top 100 would be great, but the winner gets a contract with Penguin Books, which would be a dream come true.

As it is, I'm going to get a full review from Publisher's Weekiy, which can be used in promoting the book. If I don't make the finals, I'll just publish it myself. I'm already set up to do it, just holding off to see if a better offer comes around.

TT