Amazon Breakthrough Novel Award Contest & Teenage Novelist on the “Your Book Is Your Hook!” Show

Jan. 31, 2012 - PRLog -- Thom Kephart, Community Outreach Manager for Amazon, and teenage novelist and illustrator Sarah Renee will appear as guests on the Your Book Is Your Hook! Show on WomensRadio.com.

Mr. Kephart will discuss the Amazon Breakthrough Novel Award contest which is currently open for submissions. He’ll also share his perspective of the future of the publishing industry. Ms. Renee will discuss her new book, HUNTED HOME, in The Sadeira Series and share how and why she wrote it and how she got published. She’ll also share how she’s using her books as her hook and share advice for other writers of all ages who want to write and publish in today’s publishing world.

To listen to the show: http://www.womensradio.com/2012/01/amazon-breakthrough-novel-award-contest-teenage-novelist/

NEW YORK, NY (January 31st – February 6th, 2012): Thom Kephart, Community Outreach Manager for Amazon, will talk with radio personality and host Jennifer S. Wilkov about the Amazon Breakthrough Novel Award contest and what writers need to know to submit their books for consideration.

He’ll also discuss why writers should consider entering contests and winning awards and he’ll share his perspective of the future of the publishing industry.


Teenage novelist and illustrator Sarah Renee will discuss with radio personality and host Jennifer S. Wilkov her new book, HUNTED HOME, the third book in The Saderia Series. She’ll also share how and why she wrote her new book and how she got published through Amazon’s CreateSpace. She’ll also talk about how she’s using her books as her hook and how easy it is for writers of all ages to write and publish their books. She’ll also share advice for writers who want to write and publish a book in today’s publishing world.

Host Jennifer S. Wilkov will discuss why contests are a great way for writers to get published during her Education Corner segment during the show.

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The “Your Book Is Your Hook!” Radio Show airs weekly on Tuesdays at 9:00am on the WomensRadio Network at WomensRadio.com and is syndicated on Google News and Live365.com. The “Your Book Is Your Hook!” show was created to provide the opportunity to go behind the books and discover the process from thought to sales of how other authors have succeeded in getting published and how they use their book as their hook with someone who is successful in this field and experiencing the same journey herself.  Listeners also find out about industry professionals and resources to help them as a writer and author with their book projects so they can write, market, publish and make money with their books.

Ms. Wilkov is a best-selling, award-winning author, an award-winning freelance writer, a speaker and trainer, the creator of the trademarked “From Thought to Sales In 90 Days” book process and a book business consultant for other authors and writers. Her experience and knowledge of the book business and the people in it as well as her understanding of the author’s experience from conceiving the idea to getting published are vital parts of the experience of the show.  The show has left guests wanting to come back for more.

Some of Ms. Wilkov’s most prominent guests include Dominique Raccah (Publisher of Sourcebooks & Co-Chair of the Book Industry Study Group), Aaron Rosenstein (Senior Marketing Manager at Createspace), Larry Goldbetter (President of the National Writers Union), Julia Cameron (International Bestselling Author), Debbie Macomber (#1 New York Times & USA TODAY Bestselling Author), Marci Shimoff (#1 USA TODAY, Amazon, Barnes and Noble.com and Publishers Weekly Bestseller & a NY Times Bestselling Author), Victoria Moran (Oprah-featured Author of ten books including an international bestseller), Suzy Welch (3-time NY Times Bestselling Author & Keynote Speaker at the WBENC 2010 Annual Conference), Karin Slaughter (NY Times & #1 Internationally Best-Selling Award-Winning Author), Linwood Barclay (Internationally #1 Best-Selling Author), Brunonia Barry (NY Times Bestselling Multiple Award-Winning Fiction Novelist), Carla Neggers (NY Times Bestselling Romance Suspense Author), Gayle Forman (NY Time Bestselling Author), Darryl Strawberry (NY Times Bestselling Author), Tom Wilson (the author of the cartoon strip Ziggy), Phil Sexton (Publisher & Community Leader of Writer’s Digest), Heather McCormack (Book Review Editor at Library Journal), Margaret Marbury (Editorial Director at Harlequin Books & Executive Editor at MIRA Books), Deborah Brody (Executive Editor of Harlequin’s Nonfiction Program), Michaela Hamilton (Executive Editor of Kensington Publishing), Jane von Mehren (Senior Vice President, Publisher, Trade Paperbacks for the Random House Publishing Group), Mark Coker (Founder of Smashwords), Aaron Patterson (#1 Amazon Kindle Best-Selling Author & Publisher of Stone House Ink & StoneGate Ink), Robert Reid (Lonely Planet’s US Travel Editor and spokesperson),  Katharine Sands (Literary Agent with Sarah Jane Freymann Agency & Author), Peter Rubie (CEO & Literary Agent of Fine Print Literary Management & Author), Jennifer DeChiara (Literary Agent & President of Jennifer DeChiara Literary Agency), Ted Weinstein (Literary Agent & President of Ted Weinstein Literary Management), Michael Larsen & Elizabeth Pomada (Literary Agents at Larsen-Pomada Literary Agency and hosts of the San Francisco Writers Conference), Janet Kobobel Grant (Literary Agent & Founder of Books & Such Literary Agency), Sarah Burnes (Literary Agent at The Gernert Company), Mike Sacks (Member of the Vanity Fair Magazine Editorial Team & Author), Larry Light (Executive Vice-President of Mystery Writers of America), Joel Comm (4-time NY Times Bestselling Author and new media innovator), Mari Smith (former President of the International Social Media Association, author and dubbed “The Pied Piper of Online Media” by FastCompany.com), Ken Corday (Author and Executive Producer of NBC’s Daytime Drama “Days of Our Lives”), Kathy Kinney (Co-Author, Actress well-known as Mimi Bobeck from the “The Drew Carey Show”), Carley Roney (co-founder of The Knot Inc. and the author of 16 books associated with her websites TheKnot.com, TheNest.com and TheBump.com), Marianne Schnall (Author & co-founder of Feminist.com) Peter Shankman (Author & Founder of Help A Reporter Out), Barbara Henricks (President of Cave Henricks Communications), Jan McInnis (comedienne, author, professional speaker & humor writer who has written for the Tonight Show monologues) and other industry professionals including Hollywood producers, publicists, ghostwriters, social media experts, authors in various genres and many more. Photos and more information http://www.yourbookisyourhook.com.

Women’s Online Media and Education Network (W.O.M.E.N.) began with a very large mission: to give women (and other lesser hear voices) the opportunity to have a much larger voice over a great geographic area.  Today, W.O.M.E.N. publishes http://WomensRadio.com, a rich streaming content site; http://WomensCalendar.org, the largest listing of women’s events internationally and nationally; the WR Channel; http://WRMusicReview.com, and http://AudioAcrobat.com, a sensational tool anyone can use to produce and/or publish streaming audio, video and podcasts anywhere on the web.

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Your Book Is Your Hook! is a full service consulting practice that serves authors, writers & wannabes as well as the entire book publishing industry with its endeavors. Best known for its popular weekly radio show, robust resource blog, trainings & advice.

Through the popular radio show named after her practice, "Your Book Is Your Hook!", which can be heard every Tuesday morning at 9:00am on WomensRadio.com and the accompanying show blog at YourBookIsYourHook.com/blog, Jennifer S. Wilkov brings her experience and knowledge of the book business and the people in it as well as her understanding of the author’s experience from conceiving the idea to getting it published to loyal listeners each week.

Ms. Wilkov is a best-selling, award-winning author, an award-winning freelance writer, a speaker and trainer who focuses on supporting writers with the essentials to become a bestseller: a great project, a strong platform and a well-polished pitch, presentation and hook for their book.