I’m thrilled to announce that my Napoleon novel won the Best Fiction Award at the San Francisco Writers Conference. I’d submitted the first twenty-five pages of my manuscript several weeks ago and knew it had placed as a top ten finalist. It was a wonderful surprise to have it chosen as winner.
This past weekend the tenth annual conference attracted hundreds of writers, literary agents, editors, and publishing professionals. It was a non-stop, energy-filled event. In addition to meeting potential agents for my novel, I attended seminars on the writing craft, the publishing industry, and book marketing.
Keynote speakers (shown below) included R.L. Stine of Goosebumps fame with over 300,000,000 (!) books sold; Guy Kawasaki, an Apple Fellow, venture capitalist and self-published author; and Anne Perry, best-selling author of two historical detective series with over 26,000,000 books sold. Quite a line-up.
A big thank you to the contest judges and convention organizers!
Congratulations! You are incredible and I am so excited for you. Napoleon is a lucky guy to have you spending so much time with him and telling a compelling story about him. Eager to read it. Let’s celebrate soon!
Congrats. Can’t wait to read it. There isn’t enough written about Napoleon. I started on the subject with Desiree at age 12 and am still going strong.
Thanks! I’m working on it. Like you, I never get bored reading about Napoleon.
Congrats on your writing ability… Looking forward to acquiring your book… Have you a date yet?
Respects,
Victor Blair.
Thanks, Victor. Unfortunately, I don’t have a publisher yet, but the manuscript is close to the point where I’ll be looking for one.