(NASDAQ: AMZN) and (NYSE: PSO) – Amazon.com, Penguin
Group (USA) and CreateSpace, a part of the Amazon group of
companies, today announced the winners of the Amazon Breakthrough
Novel Award, the international competition in search of the next
popular novel, at an event held at the Amazon.com headquarters in
Seattle. Gregory Hill is the winner of the general fiction category
for his novel, “East of Denver,” and Jill Baguchinsky is the winner
in the young adult fiction category for her novel, “Spookygirl.”
Hill and Baguchinsky will each receive a publishing contract from
Penguin Group (USA) that includes a $15,000 advance. “East of
Denver” and “Spookygirl” will be published by Dutton’s adult and
children’s divisions, respectively. The novels are available for
pre-order now on Amazon.com at www.amazon.com/abna.
This year’s competition drew the most submissions in the history
of the contest. After several rounds of judging, the winners were
selected by Amazon.com customers from a group of six finalists.
“Today’s winners were chosen by Amazon.com customers, and that’s
one thing that makes this contest so exciting – it offers aspiring
writers the opportunity to be heard and also connects them directly
with customers to help discover great new voices in fiction,” said
Nader Kabbani, Director of Independent Publishing at Amazon. “We
congratulate Gregory and Jill and also thank all of the people who
participated for making this year’s Amazon Breakthrough Novel Award
contest the biggest ever.”
Tim McCall, Vice President, Director of Online Sales and
Marketing, Penguin Group (USA), said, “Penguin is always seeking
exciting new work and we were gratified to see the many promising
manuscripts entered in this year’s competition. We are very much
looking forward to publishing Gregory’s and Jill’s novels.”
Gregory Hill lives in Denver where he works at the University of
Denver library and plays in “The Babysitters,” a rock and roll
power trio that includes his wife on drums. “East of Denver” tells
the story of Shakespeare Williams, who returns to his family’s farm
in eastern Colorado to find his widowed, senile father living in
squalor. Facing the loss of the farm, Shakespeare hatches a plot
with his father and a motley crew of his former high school
classmates to rob the local bank. Expert panelist Lev
Grossman, book critic for Time Magazine and author of the New York
Times bestseller “The Magicians” and the upcoming sequel “The
Magician King,” says that Hill’s writing is “on a par with that of
top-flight black-comic novelists like Sam Lipsyte and Jess Walter,
and it deserves to be read.”
Jill Baguchinsky, a longtime fan of supernatural tales, wrote
the first draft of “Spookygirl” as part of National Novel Writing
Month, or NaNoWriMo, a movement that challenges writers to complete
a novel in thirty days. In the novel, Violet Addison has moved
into an apartment above her father’s funeral home in Florida.
Violet regularly converses with the ghosts in the house, but what
she is really scared of is starting her sophomore year at a new
school. Not only will she battle rumors about her father’s
involvement in her mother’s death, but, even more frightening, the
evil forces that inhabit the girls’ locker room. Expert panelist
Jennifer Besser, Vice President and Publisher of G. P. Putnam’s
Sons Books for Young Readers, writes that this “funny and
suspenseful novel sets itself apart and heralds the arrival of a
fresh new voice.”
The Amazon Breakthrough Novel Award contest is an annual contest
co-sponsored by Amazon.com, Penguin Group (USA) and CreateSpace.
For the Amazon Breakthrough Novel Award contest Official Rules, to
view the winning excerpts and reviews, or pre-order the novels now,
please visit www.amazon.com/abna.
About Amazon.com
Amazon.com, Inc. (NASDAQ: AMZN), a Fortune 500 company based in
Seattle, opened on the World Wide Web in July 1995 and today offers
Earth’s Biggest Selection. Amazon.com, Inc. seeks to be Earth’s
most customer-centric company, where customers can find and
discover anything they might want to buy online, and endeavors to
offer its customers the lowest possible prices. Amazon.com and
other sellers offer millions of unique new, refurbished and used
items in categories such as Books; Movies, Music & Games;
Digital Downloads; Electronics & Computers; Home & Garden;
Toys, Kids & Baby; Grocery; Apparel, Shoes & Jewelry;
Health & Beauty; Sports & Outdoors; and Tools, Auto &
Industrial. Amazon Web Services provides Amazon’s developer
customers with access to in-the-cloud infrastructure services based
on Amazon’s own back-end technology platform, which developers can
use to enable virtually any type of business. Kindle, Kindle 3G,
Kindle with Special Offers and Kindle DX are the revolutionary
portable readers that wirelessly download books, magazines,
newspapers, blogs and personal documents to a crisp,
high-resolution electronic ink display that looks and reads like
real paper. Kindle 3G and Kindle DX utilize the same 3G wireless
technology as advanced cell phones, so users never need to hunt for
a Wi-Fi hotspot. Kindle is the #1 bestselling product across the
millions of items sold on Amazon.
Amazon and its affiliates operate websites, including
www.amazon.com, www.amazon.co.uk, www.amazon.de, www.amazon.co.jp,
www.amazon.fr, www.amazon.ca, www.amazon.cn, and www.amazon.it. As
used herein, “Amazon.com,” “we,” “our” and similar terms include
Amazon.com, Inc., and its subsidiaries, unless the context
indicates otherwise.
Forward-Looking Statements
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meaning of Section 27A of the Securities Act of 1933 and Section
21E of the Securities Exchange Act of 1934. Actual results may
differ significantly from management's expectations. These
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include, among others, risks related to competition, management of
growth, new products, services and technologies, potential
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outcomes of legal proceedings and claims, fulfillment center
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Amazon.com's filings with the Securities and Exchange Commission,
including its most recent Annual Report on Form 10-K and subsequent
filings.
About Penguin Group (USA)
Penguin Group (USA) Inc. is the U.S. member of the
internationally renowned Penguin Group. Penguin Group (USA) is one
of the leading U.S. adult and children's trade book publishers,
owning a wide range of imprints and trademarks, including Viking,
G. P. Putnam’s Sons, The Penguin Press, Riverhead Books, Dutton,
Penguin Books, Berkley Books, Gotham Books, Portfolio, New American
Library, Plume, Tarcher, Philomel, Grosset & Dunlap, Puffin,
and Frederick Warne, among others. The Penguin Group
(http://www.penguin.com) is part of Pearson plc, the international
media company.
About CreateSpace
CreateSpace is a leader in manufacture on-demand services for
independent content creators, publishers, film studios and music
labels. CreateSpace provides inventory-free, physical distribution
of Books, CDs and DVDs on Demand, music downloads via Amazon MP3
and video downloads via Amazon Video On Demand. CreateSpace is a
brand of On-Demand Publishing LLC, a subsidiary of Amazon.com, Inc.
(NASDAQ: AMZN).
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