How exciting! I have just found out that my manuscript, The Bold Ship Phenomenal, has been
shortlisted for the KOBO/ NZ Authors E-Publishing Prize.
This is the first year the prize has been offered. It gives
two authors the opportunity to have their unpublished manuscripts (one fiction
and one non-fiction) prepared for and published in e-book format, then promoted
by Kobo for sale in New Zealand.
I was actually in the process of preparing the manuscript for
publication as a print and e-book (just for the fun of it, because authors can
now do this) when this happened. It’s great to know that someone else thinks the
story will work as an e-book. And whether I win or not, it feels like a win-win
situation; now I can splash across my cover (when I have it designed) that it
was shortlisted.
I’m so pleased. Writing can be a dispiriting process at
times, especially when you get plenty of rejections, and publishing
opportunities in New Zealand appear to be shrinking. This type of boost is
exactly what writers need to keep them going.
Part of the judging process involves online reader voting,
so please go online when voting opens in October, and read my excerpt.
Hopefully you’ll enjoy it enough to vote for me.
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