This is exciting! In October I entered my manuscript in a contest sponsored by Amazon and Penguin Group Publishing. On January 15th, the 5,000 submitted excerpts were narrowed down to 835 semi-finalists. Tough competition.

The next round of winners will be determined in part by reviewers like you who read the excerpt and write a review.

Here’s the link to my entry.

Easy steps to submitting a review are located right here.

On this site, you can find out more about the contest, tips on writing a review, and all the gems of knowledge I am gathering from this fabulous experience.

I am grateful for the reviews I have. Thank you, thank you!! And thanks for referring this on to other friends and family. Amazon encourages this as a viable way to give each excerpt exposure, so please know that your voice is important. The theme of community rings throughout my book, so thank you for being a supportive community. Your honesty and the insight from your life experience are extremely helpful.

Right now, I’m having a lot of fun reviewing other excerpts. I’m also honing my review skills. Take a look around the contest. I highly, highly recommend reading some of the other excerpts and reviewing them. It’s a great learning experience about yourself, and what a gift - to give an unsolicited writer that attention. Talk about random acts of kindness . . . Enjoy whatever new ideas this contest brings your way. Annie