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I'm a Semi-Finalist!!!!
1/15/2008 7:39:17 PM


Ok, I'm sort of stunned.

Amazon.com sent me the following notice:

"Thank you for participating in the Amazon Breakthrough Novel Award. . . . We are happy to inform you that you have been selected as a semi-finalist."

This is an unpublished novel that I submitted to Amazon.com's novel contest sometime last fall. I submitted it and then just forgot about it.

As it turns out, I now need the help of all my friends.

The name of the novel is The Man Who Needed Killing. Amazon has posted an excerpt here: http://www.amazon.com/dp/B001265902,

I need for you to go to that website, download the excerpt and then post a review. The grand prize is publication by Penguin books which is one of the big New York publishing houses.

This is what Amazon says about reviews:

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What Makes A Good Review?

In the semifinalist round, we're breaking new ground in our customer reviewing community: this is the first opportunity for customers to play an active role in the publishing process. The criteria for judging an unpublished book are a little bit different from the norm. Keep these pointers in mind as you're reading and remember: your voice counts.

Be persuasive. Experts at Penguin will be relying on customer reviews as they prepare to select the finalists, so don't hesitate to tell us what you really think. The reviews that provide the most thorough, thoughtful feedback are the ones that will help Penguin choose the Top Ten.

Quantity and quality help. The more reviews you write, and the more helpful each review is, the more likely you are to win one of our three prize packages.

Discuss. As with customer reviews for all our products, you can comment on others' excerpt reviews and rate them. Any discussion and activity we see around specific titles will only keep us coming back for more, so feel free to speak up and banter with your peers.

One quick heads-up: Per the contest rules, every excerpt is a maximum of 5,000 words in length. As a result, you may find that excerpts vary in length or end unexpectedly. Consider yourself warned--and happy reading!
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Thank you in advance for any help you can give me!

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More Blogs by Susan Brassfield Cogan
• Merlin's Gate and Heart of the Tengeri! - Tuesday, October 19, 2010
• The Hands of the Buddha - Saturday, September 12, 2009
• The Virtual Traveler: High Tea in Darjeeling - Tuesday, February 17, 2009
• Free 2009 Calendar! - Monday, January 5, 2009
•  I'm a Semi-Finalist!!!! - Tuesday, January 15, 2008  
• REVIEW: Darkly Dreaming Dexter - Thursday, January 3, 2008
• The Last Tattoo - Tuesday, January 30, 2007
• Their Bones Still Bleach - Thursday, June 1, 2006
• Merlin's Gate: The Weapon - Thursday, June 1, 2006
• Intelligent Design: The Love Child of a Publicist and an Advertising Agent - Tuesday, May 16, 2006
• Wizard of Nanterre Wins! - Saturday, April 1, 2006
• Wizard of Nanterre" - Monday, October 17, 2005
• Lady Chesterleigh and the King of Swords - Thursday, March 17, 2005
• The Tale of the Closet - Saturday, January 22, 2005
• Lady Chesterleigh and the Counterfeit Murders - Friday, January 21, 2005
• HOW CAN WE LOVE THE WORLD - Tuesday, January 11, 2005
• The Man Who Needed Killing - Wednesday, November 3, 2004
• Wicked They Come - Thursday, September 2, 2004
• Letters from a Dead Man - Friday, August 13, 2004
• Murder on the Waterfront Available! - Monday, June 28, 2004
• No Good Deed Wins! - Wednesday, April 28, 2004
• Lady Chesterleigh and the Night Visitor - Friday, April 2, 2004
• Murder on the Waterfront Galley Proofs - Friday, March 19, 2004
• No Good Deed - Monday, March 8, 2004
• Let's Write Some Dialogue, She Said - Sunday, March 7, 2004
• The King's Best Soldier
- Thursday, January 15, 2004

• The Worst Dragon Hunter - Tuesday, December 23, 2003
• Sometimes you just wanna be bad - Friday, October 31, 2003
• Heart of the Tengeri - Monday, October 27, 2003
• Anotherealm Flash Contest - Thursday, October 23, 2003
• New Contract & New Story - Tuesday, October 21, 2003