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For Immediate Release

Authors "Reach for the Stars" and Win!

Glendale, CA. -- Carolyn Howard-Johnson the author of USA Book News' Best Professional Book 2004, The Frugal Book Promoter: How to Do What Your Publisher Won't and Kristie Leigh Maguire, author and publisher of Star Publish, named 13 authors the winners of their "Reach for the Stars" competition.

"Reach for the Stars Best Frugal Promoter Contest" was designed to keep giving. The winners' contributions will be published in an e-book to be given at no charge to other authors searching for ways to bring their titles before the public. It will be released in early 2006 and made available on the Star Publish site, http://starpublish.com.

Winners are Cheryl Wright, Editor of Author2Author.com, Grand Prize Winner:

Maryanne Raphael, author of MOTHER TERESA, CALLED TO LOVE, First Place Winner; Beverly J. Scott, author of JENAS CHOICE, Second Place Winner; Michael J. Wallach, author of HOW TO GET ARRESTED, Third Place Winner; and T.C. McMullen author of THE MANIPULATED EVIL TRILOGY, and Larry Pontius, author of WAKING WALT, both Honorable Mentions.

Runners up include Hugh Rosen, Edward Lee Goldstein, Carol White, Myrna Lou Goldbaum. Karen Mueller Bryson, Abel. G. Pena and Donna D'Amore.

In addition to having their ideas published, winners were given an assortment of prizes including books on writing and promotion authored by Joyce Faulkner, Shel Horowitz, Carolyn Howard-Johnson, Peggi Ridgway, and Francine Silverman.

The contest judges were Maguire, Howard-Johnson, and Irwin Zucker, founder of Book Publicists of Southern California and President of Promotion in Motion

Learn more at:  http://starpublish.com/Contest.htm

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