Recently, Amazon and Penguin Group (USA) announced the fourth annual Amazon Breakthrough Novel Award, an international competition seeking fresh new writing voices. CreateSpace will once again host the submission platform for the contest. Here is the information the competition emailed me as a past participant. Important details about the 2011 Amazon Breakthrough Novel Award: What are the prizes? […]
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The Amazon Breakthrough Novel Award
Oh the innocence of the budding writer! Between the entry fee (somewhere around $20, I believe) and the postage (no electronic transmissions back then), I was a bit poorer for the experience. But I learned an important lesson: There are plenty of writers out there who have not only written novels, but have put in […]
Awards
Between Will and Surrender First Place for fiction in the Northern California Publishers and Authors Book Awards First Place for Adult Fiction in the California Author Project Between Darkness and Dawn Second Place for Fiction in the Northern California Publishers and Authors Book Awards Finalist for Visionary Fiction in the International Book Awards Between Yesterday […]
Stylish Blogger Award #2
When a person sends a kindness your way, it’s only right that you show your gratitude. So please don’t see this just as an opportunity for me to toot my own horn (which it is, of course), but also as a way to say, “Thank you” to a fellow blogger who chose to honor me with […]
Stylish Blogger Award
Why thank you Cathy Kennedy for presenting me with the Stylish Blogger Award! What better way to start off the new year than with such a compliment from a fellow blogger/writer I admire. Here’s what Cathy said about my blog: Enter the Between: A Writer’s Journey is by Margaret Duarte, a fellow author. We’ve came together through […]
Between Now and Forever, 2014 ABNA Quarter Finalist
Between Now and Forever, the first novel in my ENTER THE BETWEEN series, is a 2014 ABNA Quarter finalist. That means my novel made it through round one of the Amazon Breakthrough Novel Award Contest, where 10,000 entries were whittled down to 2,000, and round two, where 2,000 entries were whittled even further to 500.
