a friday five

I've never done this Friday Five thing before, but it's popular with bloggers and I've got a bunch of small tidbits and some catch up to do, so I'll steal the idea for the week.

#1 Incentive to finish up that manuscript?
I know many of you are budding YA authors and Penguin and Amazon have this very cool Breakthrough Novelist Award. Who knew? This is its third year and this year there is a prize for YA fiction! Per Amazon "The 2010 competition is open to unpublished and previously...