San Diego Author a Runner-up in MARSocial Author of the Year Competition

SAN DIEGO - Jan. 31, 2014 - PRLog -- The worldwide MARSocial Author of the Year Competition has finally announced their winner, Karynne Summars of Germany, but California girl Sarka-Jonae Miller is proud to be a runner-up. "I'm joining the ranks of greats like One Direction, Jennifer Hudson, and Adam Lambert, people who didn't win huge competitions but were hugely talented. At least, it makes me feel good to think that."

The international competition pitted authors from Russia, China, Canada, the United States, and the United Kingdom against each other for the prize of having their book turned into a feature film. Yet something interesting happened. Instead of merely promoting themselves, the contestants banded together to use social media to promote each other, and thus the entire competition. Their combined efforts led to more than 250,000 tweets and Facebook shares, not to mention numerous retweets that reached millions.

Many authors reported benefits from participating in the competition, from being invited to do TV and radio interviews to getting a book deal. Miller says she met dozens of amazing authors and had a great time sharing in the group effort to get exposure for everyone's work on social media. Her novel, Between Boyfriends, was re-released by Booktrope in November 2013, just before she joined the competition. The second novel in the chick lit series, Between the Sheets, is being released on Valentine's Day.

"Being named a runner-up in this competition two weeks before my next novel comes out is amazing timing. I'm looking forward to seeing what's next for the Between Boyfriends Series. Just because I didn't win this competition doesn't mean that Between Boyfriends wouldn't make a great movie. In fact, I know it would. But right now, I just hope people enjoy reading the books." Miller is currently working on a third and planning to publish later this year.

For more information about Miller, visit her website: www.SarkaJonae.com.

Between Boyfriends is available for purchase on Amazon http://www.amazon.com/Between-Boyfriends-The-Series-Volum...

and Barnes & Noble

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Between the Sheets is available for pre-order on Amazon http://www.amazon.com/Between-Sheets-The-Boyfriends-Serie...