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YouWriteOn Book of Year Awards 2008 April Update

YouWriteOn.com is extremely pleased that our awards winning writers are progressing as follows:

Adult Fiction Awards Smoke Portrait by Trilby Kent. First place adult fiction. Trilby had a meeting with an agent at the Christopher Little Literary Agency who liked her opening chapters. She is currently working with an editor from their team to develop her story through to completion. View Opening Chapters

Penguins in Amsterdam by Patricia J. DeLois. Third Place Adult Fiction. Patricia achieved success last year with her novel Bufflehead Sisters which YouWriteOn published. Her novel was named the number one book of the year by the leading newspaper in the author's state of Maine, with a population of over one million, in a list of 10 books recommended by newspaper readers, professional reviewers, book store owners, and librarians. Patricia gained an agent, and they are now in discussion with a famous publisher as a result for a two book deal which would include Bufflehead Sisters and Penguins in Amsterdam. View Author's Page

We were very pleased to be able to publish Patricia's novel and help gain her excellent story interest from the publishing community. YouWriteOn now offers a publishing service to all members - view details

Children's Fiction Awards One of the children's fiction winners, whom we have notified, has had interest from one of our affiliated literary agencies and we will await the outcome. The agency represent a multi-million award winning writer in the UK. For all the winners we will continue to try our affiliated literary agents and we also offer the option for the winners of using our publishing service for free to build up success and interest as achieved with Bufflehead Sisters.

We are extremely pleased that the above writers are progressing and achieving success through their excellent writing after uploading and developing their stories on YouWriteOn.com.

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This Month Additional A YouWriteOn children's book writer informs us they have been contacted by Walker Books after they saw her opening chapters in the YouWriteOn Charts. Walker Books is a leading children's' book publisher. Their authors include Anthony Horowitz, author of the best-selling Alex-Rider series, and Lucy Cousins, 'Gold Smarties Prize-winning creator of Maisy the mouse.

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Member Successes and YouWriteOn Services: As well as YouWriteOn's free services funded by the Arts Council and us, we also provide the following critique and publishing services to help writers and help fund the site. YouWriteOn's successes include Bufflehead Sisters by Patricia J. DeLois, which was named the number one read of 2007 by a leading newspaper ahead of a former Pulitzer prize winning writer. View Details. Our literary professional critiques from editors for leading agents and publishers have also helped writers to achieve publishing success, including one writer who achieved a six figure deal with a major publisher.

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