Next year will see the publication of my essay How I Took On An Empire, digging into some of the nuts and bolts of being a Star Wars author, in an e-book aimed at professional and aspiring writers.

UPDATED: The e-book is now available for free download!

Here's the media release from Star Publish:


MEDIA RELEASE

CONTACT: Carolyn Howard-Johnson or Kristie Leigh Maguire
E-mail: HoJoNews@aol.com or starpublish04-info@yahoo.com
Phone: 818-790-0502

For Immediate Release

Authors "Reach for the Stars" and Win!


Glendale, CA. -- Carolyn Howard-Johnson, the author of USA Book News' Best Professional Book 2004, The Frugal Book Promoter: How to Do What Your Publisher Won't, and Kristie Leigh Maguire, multi-published author and owner of Star Publish, named 13 authors as the winners of their "Reach for the Stars! Best Frugal Promoter Contest 2005."

This contest was designed to keep giving. The winners' promotional plans will be published in Reach For The Stars! Award-Winning Promotional Plans To Jumpstart Your Branding Career, an e-book that will be published by Star Publish (http://starpublish.com) and released in early 2006. The e-book will be available, free of charge, to other authors searching for ways to bring their titles before the public.

Cheryl Wright, Editor of Writer2Writer.com and author of Saving Emma, Think Outside the Square: Writing Publishable (Short) Stories, I Wanna Win! - Tips for Becoming an Award Winning Writer, Outside the Square Fiction Workshop, was chosen as the Grand Prize Winner. Maryanne Raphael, author of Mother Teresa, Called To Love, was selected as First Place Winner. Beverly J. Scott, author of Jena's Choice, was chosen as the Second Place Winner. Michael J. Wallach, author of How To Get Arrested was selected as Third Place Winner. T.C. McMullen, author of The Manipulated Evil Trilogy, and Larry Pontius, author of Waking Walt were named as Honorable Mentions.

Runners Up include Hugh Rosen, Edward Lee Goldstein, Carol White, Myrna Lou Goldbaum, Karen Mueller Bryson, Abel G. Peņa and Donna D'Amore.

In addition to having their ideas published, winners were given an assortment of prizes including books on writing and promotion authored by Joyce Faulkner, Shel Horowitz, Carolyn Howard-Johnson, Peggi Ridgway, and Francine Silverman.

Abel G. Peņa is the author of numerous Star Wars fictions for Star Wars Insider, StarWars.com, Dungeon Magazine, and other Lucasfilm Ltd. licensees and publications, including the Dark Forces Saga and the upcoming Unknown Soldier: The Story of General Grievous. His contribution to Reach for the Stars!, titled "How I Took On An Empire: My Star Wars Marketing Campaign," describes effective and inexpensive strategies writers can utilize to successfully brand themselves. His Star Wars VIP Blog can be found at http://blogs.starwars.com/abelgpena.

The contest judges were Kristie Leigh Maguire, Carolyn Howard-Johnson, and Irwin Zucker, founder of Book Publicists of Southern California and President of Promotion in Motion.

Learn more at: http://starpublish.com/Contest.htm ~ Abel G. Peņa


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