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What is ABNA Books?

ABNA is the Association of Breakthrough Novel Authors.

We started as a group of entrants and semifinalists of the Amazon Breakthrough Novel Award. Through the forum, we grew into a community of writers working together to improve our writing and promote our books. ABNABooks.com is the next step in our evolution, a place to maintain that solidarity while promoting our work and perfecting our craft.

ABNA Books is an online showcase, network, and marketplace for writers. It’s a place for writers to present their work, get the attention of publishers and agents, and help each other in the process of publishing and promotion.

If you are an ABNA Entrant, Semifinalist, or Finalist, I invite you to submit your information and upload your manuscript on the Submit Book Info page. If you’ve already published , add your title to our Amazon affiliate store. Check out the columns written by ABNA writers, and there are more features to be added in the coming weeks.

Come back often. Tell your friends.

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Top 10 ABNA Finalists Announced

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Amazon and Penguin announced the Top 10 Finalists in the Amazon Breakthrough Novel Award on March 3, 2008. Amazon customers can go to the www.Amazon.com/ABNA site to download longer versions of each of the novels and then write a review. The following is taken from the Amazon ABNA site:

“Finalists will earn the following point values based on your star ratings:

•5 stars = 3 points
•4 stars = 1 point
•1, 2 or 3 stars = 0 points
•Download only (no review or star rating) = 0 points

The grand prize winner will be the finalist who earns the most total points from customer ratings. Only ratings with qualified reviews will be counted, and a customer may only rate and review each excerpt once.”

For the first two weeks, reviews will be posted on the site, but after that they will be hidden to maintain the element of surprise for the Announcement of the Amazon Breakthrough Novel Award winner on April 7, 2008.

Good luck to all the Finalists!

Ushering in a New Era?

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The Penguin Blog posted an interesting little entry about eBooks and electronic publishing. To quote part of the post:

“There is a school of thought that says that Gutenberg’s invention of the printing press – leading to the demise of the illuminated manuscript and the transfer of knowledge by linear type – actually affected the way that people absorbed ideas and information and that Western Rationalism might not have taken hold without the orderly presentation of text. So it is not implausible to imagine that as more and more knowledge and information is transfered via the internet, with popup windows, embedded video, infographic boxes and all the other eye-catching frippery competing for attention, we might witness significant changes in the way we read, and perhaps in the way we actually think.” ~from Nonlinearity by Jeremy Ettinghausen, Digital Publisher

The rest can be read here: http://thepenguinblog.typepad.com/the_penguin_blog/2008/02/non-linear.html

If the printed word ushered in an era of Western Rationalism, what might we be ushering in with the advent of electronic words? Any thoughts?