Amazon Breakthrough Novel Award Top 10 Semifinalist Erica Eisdorfer's novel The Wet Nurse's Tale is due out Summer 2009. Erica's agent submitted the manuscript to other interested publishers, but Putnam outbid them.Congratulations to Erica!

Recent publications and wins by ABNA Authors:

• Julie Ann Shapiro has had three stories accepted for publication this month. "Senor P and the Missing Socks" is published in Short Humor UK. "The Dialer Spell" is published in Literary Chaos and "Dizzying Rain" is published in Inscribed.
• Marjorie Carlson Davis has another 2nd place short story contest win--the 2008 American Kennel Club Fiction contest. Her story will appear in upcoming issues of the AKC Gazette and Family Dog.

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ABNA Books Author and columnist, Julie Ann Shapiro was quoted in USA Today, and her novel Jen-Zen and the One Shoe Diaries was mentioned as being available on Kindle.
Congrats, Julie!

Short Kindle supply is keeping e-book fans waiting
By Edward C. Baig, USA TODAY

Julie Ann Shapiro's debut novel Jen-Zen and the One Shoe Diaries is among more than 100,000 digital titles for sale
on Amazon's Kindle e-book reader. But the author is one of many readers who cannot get hold of a Kindle. "I wish I
could tell you I had one," she sighs. "Most people I know are frustrated about not getting one."

The rest of the article can be read here:

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