by Sarah Honenberger
Member since:
March 12, 2007

AMAZON NOVEL CONTEST quarterfinals NEEDS READERS and COMMENTS. Make Gather Proud.

March 18, 2009 05:59 PM EDT (Updated: March 18, 2009 11:32 PM EDT)
views: 92 | comments: 20

(Link is fixed here, I hope, March 18 11:30 pm)

Exciting news. Gather has three authors who have been chosen as one of 500 quarterfinalists out of more than 5000 entries in the Amazon Breakthrough Novel Contest. Sheila Deeth and Jamie C. and me. (If there are more, please write one of us to let us know.

We need our GATHER friends/readers to go online, download the FREE excerpt and leave their comments, the sooner the better (there’s an early April deadline). Here’s the hyperlink to my novel CATCHER, CAUGHT about a 15 year old boy with leukemia.

http://www.amazon.com/CATCHER-CAUGHT-Amazon-Breakthrough-Novel/dp/B001UG3A64/ref=cm_cr_wr_img

You highlight the link and right click and it takes you to the free download page. I think you have to be an Amazon customer or have an Amazon account (login, etc) BUT in order to move from 500 to the semi-final round of 100 novels, the comments are what propels the book.

ALSO, if you can send the hyperlink to any and all friends and ask them to go and read the excerpt, it would be wonderful. A ground swell of support for Gather friends, the strength of network. Hoorah. Thank you, thank you, thank you. Sarah (Sally)

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Comments: 20

Rae M. Mar 18, 2009, 6:00pm EDT
On my way!!
Lune Wolfsong Mar 18, 2009, 6:01pm EDT
Thanks for letting us know, Sarah. Love to support my Gather friends. I'll check this out.
Mariana T. Mar 18, 2009, 6:02pm EDT
Thanks and I wish you all the best! Salud
Rae M. Mar 18, 2009, 6:07pm EDT
The link keeps taking me to my own page of the last few books I either bought or sold, is there another way to get in?
Rhetta A. Mar 18, 2009, 6:27pm EDT
I can't get the link to work either. It's doing exactly the same thing to me.
L. H. Mar 18, 2009, 6:27pm EDT
Good luck, I hope ya like civil war and bio's, that's all I have there.(in my collection) GOOD LUCK!
Lune Wolfsong Mar 18, 2009, 6:31pm EDT
Yeah, the link isn't working. If you go to Amazon.com and search for the author's name, their entry will come up. I just read Sheila's, and am about to go looking for Sarah's.
Lune Wolfsong Mar 18, 2009, 6:33pm EDT
Sarah's
Rhetta A. Mar 18, 2009, 6:35pm EDT
I got to it by going to Amazon Shorts.
L. H. Mar 18, 2009, 6:37pm EDT
I added you, is what I meant.
timi A. Mar 18, 2009, 6:39pm EDT
Good Luck
Teri V. Mar 18, 2009, 7:22pm EDT
good luck
Lune Wolfsong Mar 18, 2009, 7:41pm EDT
Thanks, Rhetta. That helped me find Jamie's (I think. Hard to be sure without a last name.)
Sarah Honenberger Mar 18, 2009, 11:26pm EDT
Thanks, Lune. Anyone else can click on 'Sarah's' in Lune's comment. I;m going to edit the article now and see if I can fix the link. Pls forgive me, I'm computer challenged.
Lune Wolfsong Mar 18, 2009, 11:53pm EDT
No problem, Sarah. :)
Sarah Honenberger Mar 19, 2009, 12:07am EDT
Just discovered if you click the 'See all Editorial reviews' under each excerpt you can see the author's pitch, which was how they picked the 500 from the 5000 plus entries. Here's my pitch:
Product Description
Ever wonder how Holden Caulfield from Catcher in the Rye would fare in today's teenage world of sex, drugs, and lost identities? Since 1945 Holden's been haunting high school English classes and the bookshelves of baby boomers who worried with Holden as he struggled to find himself and to define what was important. Daniel Landon in CATCHER, CAUGHT admires Holden's candor. In Daniel's own struggle to define himself in the face of leukemia, he bonds with Holden, using his new friend to bounce off ideas and to assist Daniel in his own search for identity as he faces death. Because Daniel must also learn how to separate himself from parents who insist they know best how to treat the disease, Daniel follows Holden to NYC in search of the same eternal truths, only to discover the importance of home when death looms. A coming of age story, a love story, a new classic, CATCHER, CAUGHT will engage the imagination of more than one generation, searching for lasting values.
Jamie C. Mar 19, 2009, 10:00am EDT
Thanks for mention, Sarah. I appreciate it!

Here's a clickable link to mine (a medical thriller): Death Domain

I have a couple of other gather friends in the finals:
Cathy M with a post-apocolyptic romance The Raider's Wife

and

Sherrie Super with a humorous mystery Illegal Fortunes

Thanks for doing this Sarah. You are awesome. I'm heading over to download yours and Sheila's entries now!
A. F. Stewart Mar 19, 2009, 10:53am EDT
The best of luck in the contest!
Sheila Deeth Mar 26, 2009, 12:33am EDT
Oh wow. I didn't realize you could see the author's pitch too. I shall start looking at those now when I read. Many thanks.
Sheila Deeth Mar 26, 2009, 12:33am EDT
Do you have Lisa K's entry on your Gather list? http://www.amazon.com/dp/B001UG3A32

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