About six weeks ago I proudly finished the edit and rewrite of my first novel draft and submitted it to the Amazon Breakthrough Novel Award. They have quite a convoluted procedure for getting from (up to) 10,000 entries down to the final winner, but the exciting news is that I’ve passed through the first two stages.
I heard today that my novel Kanako’s Foreigner is officially a quarter finalist for the 2009 Amazon Breakthrough Novel Award – that means that from the initial 10,000 entries (well, nobody knows if they got …