Congrats
to the five category winners in this year Amazon Breakthrough Novel Award. The
exposure they are getting is great, and soon there will be one overall winner
from the 10,000 who entered back in January. I wish all
five of them the best of luck!
For
those who are considering entering for 2014, here is the link to six lessons
that I learned from the process that might be helpful.
Last year one of my novels was a quarter-finalist and two made the finals of the Faulkner-Wisdom Novel contest. All the best.
Also, I would strongly recommend reading your novels out loud when you edit, and do it more than once. You'll be surprised by what you catch and the changes you make.
Here are links to some
of my author-to-author interviews of first novelists:
Golda
Mowe author of Iban Dream and Iban Journey.
Preeta
Samarasan author of Evening is the Whole Day.
Chuah
Guat Eng, author of Echoes of Silence and Days
of Change.
Plus:
Five part Maugham
and Me series
Beheaded on
Road to Nationhood: Sarawak Reclaimed—Part
I
