HOT NEWS..! I’m
back from holiday to discover that while I was away my novel ‘Bagpipes &
Bullshot’ won The People's Book Award for Kindle (May 2013)! Previous winners
include JK Rowling’s ‘The Casual Vacancy’, Hilary Mantel’s ‘Wolf Hall’, David
Nicholl’s ‘One Day’ and E L James’ ‘Fifty Shades of Grey’.
The People's Book
Awards
are the only international awards open to all titles distributed in Kindle or
Printed formats by Amazon sites around the world. Established in 2008, the
awards site (www.thebookawards.com)
attracts large numbers of visitors and in that time thousands of voters around
the world has shown their appreciation by supporting and nominating books in
the competition. The competition is strong, with several international best
sellers, in addition to talented emerging authors making up the field.
Managing Director,
Peter Lihou
sent me a personal message of congratulations and this is what he said!
"Over the
years, we've seen a great many popular titles gain the tangible applause of
their fans by their votes and comments, but Bagpipes & Bullshot enjoys
particularly warm support. It really is quite an accomplishment for an author
to inspire their customers so much that they get online and vote in such
numbers and leave extremely flattering comments. Janice Horton is a very worthy
winner!"
