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January 17, 2008 - Encinitas, California – Fiction author, Julie Ann Shapiro announces that her novel, Three Drop Pennies, a paranormal coming of age story is a semi-finalist in Amazon’s Breakthrough Novel Contest.
Facebookenthusiast.com, marketing guru, Andrew Kaplan says, “Amazon’s contest demonstrates how social networking media is a way for breakthrough authors to find audiences and connect directly with publishers.”
According to Amazon.com, “From now until March 2, they're inviting Amazon.com customers to download, read, and review excerpts from semifinalists and help decide who will make it to the Top Ten. Penguin will select manuscripts to read from the semifinal round based on customers' feedback and Publishers Weekly reviews. The 10 finalists selected from this round will be announced on March 3. Customers will then vote to select the winner, to be announced April 7, 2008.”
Kaplan says, “This contest is a further indication of Amazon’s commitment to its Kindle product in that the reading public can download the novel excerpt and post reviews live.”
Author Julie Ann Shapiro adds, “Contests like this get people excited about reading novels and that’s something to support in this day and age where there are so many other mediums vying for entertainment.”
Readers can read an excerpt of Julie Ann Shapiro’s novel, Three Drop Pennies and post a live review at http://www.amazon.com/dp/B00121WE64.
In Three Drop Pennies two teenagers and life long friends, Tommy and Lori start a romance. But Tommy's increasingly dark psychic visions threaten to tear them apart. Lori seeks solace and collects pennies. Online she befriends Bo, another coin collector. Unbeknownst to Lori, Bo is a former mental patient. He struggles to make his way in the world and is tormented by his past, the evil impulses of Abe and a bewitching ghost. When Lori disappears and is seriously injured, Tommy must determine the nature of Bo's involvement; as he too is lured into the world of the mysterious penny man.
About Julie Ann Shapiro
Julie Ann Shapiro http://www.julieannshapiro.com is a freelance writer, Pushcart nominee, short story author and novelist. Her fiction is best described as literary, quirky and in the magic realism vein. Julie is the winner of the 2006 Best Little Christmas Story Contest and received recognition as a Million Writers Award Notable Stories of 2004. She has over fifty published short stories.
For more information about Amazon’s Breakthrough Novel Contest, visit www.amazon.com/abna.
Contact Information
Contact Julie Ann Shapiro at Julie ( @ ) julieannshapiro dot com, or at http://www.julieannshapiro.com.
