"The Silence of Trees" A New Book!

[UkieDuke]

My daughter Valya wrote a book and submitted her manuscript to the Amazon.com "Breakthrough Novel Award" contest. Yesterday she was notified that she has been selected as a semifinalist in this contest, and the next step is public review. I am asking you to please visit the Amazon site, if you are an Amazon customer (click on the below address), and give her excerpt a review. This phase of the contest depends on the amount and quality of reviewers (by February 28, 2008) that each semifinalist receives. The excerpt from the novel is only 13-14 pages long. I hope that you find it interesting and give it a positive review. Thank you for helping out and please forward this message to everyone you know so that Valya can get the maximum amount of exposure.This is a story of a Ukrainian woman who lived through much of the historic times of the 20th century.



Thank You,

Walter Dudycz
Retired State Senator
Chicago, Illinois, USA




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Hello friends and family,

My first novel manuscript, THE SILENCE OF TREES, has been selected as a Semifinalist in the Amazon Breakthrough Novel Award. It is one of 836 excerpts that were chosen out of 5000 entries and announced on January 15th.

The top 100 will be selected based on reviews and feedback. This is the equivalent of American Idol for writers. I am asking everyone to please visit the free website at Amazon.com: The Silence of Trees - Official ABNA Entrant: Books: Valya Dudycz Lupescu, download & read my excerpt, and give it a review.

Each individual review submitted is the actual vote that is tallied. Your vote does make a difference! (Plus there are incentive prizes. )

Voters must have an Amazon.com account to download, rate and review the excerpt. The voting ends at 11:59:59 p.m. on February 28, 2008.

For more information, you can also visit my website at The Silence of Trees

I need your vote, as well as the votes of anyone else you can forward this email on to.

If you have any questions, you can send me an email.

Thank you very much in advance!

~Valya Dudycz Lupescu

[lisaparx]

Good Luck to your daughter.
I went to Amazon & read what was there.
very nice work!
Please keep us updated