Hi Everyone, I hope that it is OK to list this exciting contest that my publisher and sponsor are running.

The publisher of my book and a sponsor are running a "Buy a Book, Win a Trip to Morocco" sweepstakes. If you buy a copy of Allah's Garden (available on my website at Thomas Hollowell), you will automatically be entered. Buy from Amazon.com and register your copy with the sponsor, who runs Morocco tours. Any questions, please do ask. I hope this is a worthwhile and fun contest for everyone! Winner announced Jan 1, 2010. Be sure to tell your friends! Best of Luck!

Thomas Hollowell
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What do New York agents, magazine editors and book publishers look for in new writers? Hello, I’m Bill Manville --former Village Voice columnist, an editor for Helen Gurley Brown at Cosmo, author of six books published by major New York houses -- one a Book-of-the-Month – and columnist for the New York Daily News. Now about to teach “Writing to Get Published” for writers.com
Here is what Michael Korda, Editor in Chief, Simon & Schuster, wrote about that: “...the work I know best is your novel Goodbye, which I edited. What first attracted me was the dazzling prose; I was equally impressed by plot and characterization. A considerable literary accomplishment but also a Book of the Month choice, bringing an impressive price at paperback auction. What may also interest your students, I’ve heard you in discussion with writers like Joe Heller, Patricia Bosworth, Lois Gould and Gay Talese, and remember thinking more than once, Bill ought to be teaching it too.”
First class is August 3. For a free online copy of the Writing to Get Published Students Handbook, write me directly: whmanville@yahoo.com: