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Between Now and Forever, 2014 ABNA Quarter Finalist

April 15, 2014 by Margaret Duarte

Amazon Breakthrough Novel Award in 2010

Between Now and Forever, the first novel in my ENTER THE BETWEEN series, is a 2014 ABNA Quarter finalist.

That means my novel made it through round one of the Amazon Breakthrough Novel Award Contest, where 10,000 entries were whittled down to 2,000, and round two, where 2,000 entries were whittled even further to 500.

2014 ABNA Quarter Finalist Prize

The nice thing about making it this far is that I’m guaranteed three Amazon-selected Editors’ reviews of Between Now and Forever’s first two chapters and a Publishers Weekly review of the entire manuscript, which I can then use to market and promote my book. What an awesome contest!

Between Now and Forever is currently included in the top 100 of the Science Fiction, Fantasy, and Horror category if you care to take a look below.

 2014 ABNA Quarter-Finalists Announced

Amazon Publishing has announced the Amazon Breakthrough Novel Award quarter-finalists.

View the top 100 entries from each category that are moving to the quarter-finals below.

On June 13, Amazon Publishing will announce the top 5 entries from each category advancing to the semi-finals.

2014 Quarter-Finalists by Category

General Fiction
 
Mystery & Thriller
 
Romance
 
Science Fiction, Fantasy & Horror
 
Young Adult
 

25 semifinalists will be announced in June. Semifinalists will receive full publishing contracts with Amazon Publishing to market and distribute as a print book. There’s also a $15,000 cash prize.

The competition for the semifinalist prize will be intense. But miracles do happen.

If I win, you can bet it will be announced here.

As always, thanks for stopping by,

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About Margaret Duarte

Former middle school teacher, Margaret Duarte, lives on a California dairy farm with a herd of “happy cows,” a constant reminder that the greenest pastures lie closest to home. Margaret earned her creative writing certificate through UC Davis Extension and has since published four novels in her “Enter the Between” visionary fiction series: Between Will and Surrender, Between Darkness and Dawn, Between Yesterday and Tomorrow, and Between Now and Forever. Her poem and story credits include SPC Tule Review; The California Writers Club Literary Review; finalist in the 2017 SLO Nightwriters Golden Quill Writing Contest; First Place winner for fiction in 2016, Second Place winner for fiction in 2018, Honorable Mention for fiction in 2019, and Gold winner for fiction in 2020 NORTHERN CALIFORNIA PUBLISHERS AND AUTHORS Book Awards Competition; 2019 California Author Project winner for adult fiction.

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  1. Jo Chandler says

    April 21, 2014 at 4:21 pm

    Margaret,
    I just read the great news. Congratulations. This is no surprise. May you go all the way my friend. This book it worth the top prize!!

    Jo

  2. Margaret Duarte says

    April 21, 2014 at 4:33 pm

    Thanks, Jo. I’m just thrilled to make it this far and don’t dare hope to make it to the semifinals. Yet…miracles do happen.

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