CreateSpace (part of the Amazon.com group of companies) offers free self-publishing and distribution services designed for authors to get published and reach readers.
Long estranged from his children and now faced with Alzheimer's, Bill Warrington decides that kidnapping April--his belligerent and beguiling 15-year-old granddaughter--is the only way to mend his family (if not his mind). So begins the journey of Bill Warrington's Last Chance, James King's remarkable fiction debut and winner of the 2009 Amazon Breakthrough Novel Awardthat--according to bestselling author Sue Grafton--"is what reading is about and what a good book is supposed to do."
We've opened a new message board where authors can set up local writing groups, events, and get-togethers to help each other prepare for the Breakthrough Novel Award and cheer each other on as the contest progresses. If you're interested in starting a local group or want to find groups meeting in your area check out the ABNA Local Chapters Forum.
About the Amazon Breakthrough Novel Award
The Amazon Breakthrough Novel Award is an opportunity for emerging fiction writers to join a community of authors on Amazon.com, showcase their work, and compete for a chance to get published.
Sponsored in partnership with Penguin Group (USA) and CreateSpace, the Amazon Breakthrough Novel Award launched in October 2007 and received more than 5,000 initial entries. Of those, excerpts from over 800 fiction entries were eligible for Amazon.com customers to read, rate, and review. Editors at Penguin Group (USA) reviewed the Top 100 semifinalists based on early customer reads and full manuscript reviews provided by Publishers' Weekly. In March 2008, the leading Top 10 finalists were selected for the customers' vote. A panel of experts--including bestselling author Elizabeth Gilbert, editor and publisher Amy Einhorn, literary critic John Freeman, and literary agent Eric Simonoff--also weighed in with their reviews for each of the top 10 novels. The top three finalists--Dwight Okita (The Prospect of My Arrival), Harry Dolan (Bad Things Happen), and Bill Loehfelm (Fresh Kills) traveled to New York City for the first weekend in April, where Bill Loehfelm was revealed as the winner.
Long estranged from his children and now faced with Alzheimer's, Bill Warrington decides that kidnapping April--his belligerent and beguiling 15-year-old granddaughter--is the only way to mend his family (if not his mind). So begins the journey of Bill Warrington's Last Chance, James King's remarkable fiction debut and winner of the 2009 Amazon Breakthrough Novel Awardthat--according to bestselling author Sue Grafton--"is what reading is about and what a good book is supposed to do." 
We've opened a new message board where authors can set up local writing groups, events, and get-togethers to help each other prepare for the Breakthrough Novel Award and cheer each other on as the contest progresses. If you're interested in starting a local group or want to find groups meeting in your area check out the 