ABNA contest

I'm happy to announce I made the 1st cut in the Amazon ABNA (Amazon Breakthrough Novel Award) contest after a month long grueling wait. The entry period started Jan 24th, 2010 and ended Feb 7th. My book wasn't even close to being ready when I found out about it mid Dec, but after putting EVERYTHING on the back burner, I painstakingly edited the rest of my novel, THE EMERALD TALISMAN. And thanks to my lovely and wonderful editor, Dori Ohnstad, who did the same thing, we stayed up many late nig...