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Touchstone Division of Simon & Schuster to Publish Winners of Newly Created Sobol Award for Fiction
The Touchstone Division of Simon & Schuster and Sobol Literary Enterprises, Inc. have announced their agreement to publish all three finalists in the newly created Sobol Award for Fiction, an innovative endeavor to discover talented, unpublished fiction writers and help them achieve the recognition they deserve. The original deadline has been extended to midnight, March 31st, 2007. The awards will be announced in the fall of 2007.Sobol writers upload their manuscripts onto the Sobol Award site where teams of readers nationwide evaluate them in several stages of judging. The winning three novels will be selected by a panel of judges chaired by Brigitte Weeks, Editorial Director of Sobol, and including novelist Alice Hoffman, former Executive Director of the National Book Awards Neil Baldwin, and publishing executives Robert Riger and Greg Tobin.
The first place winner will receive $100,000 from Sobol as well as an advance against royalties from Simon & Schuster. The second and third places receive $25,000 and $10,000 respectively from Sobol and advances from the publisher. Only unpublished writers without literary agents are eligible to enter the contest.
"We are delighted to have Touchstone Books/Simon & Schuster as our publishing partner," said Weeks. "With the talented and successful Simon & Schuster team to support our winners, we know our writers will start their career with the success and sales they deserve."
Mark Gompertz, Senior Vice President and Publisher, Touchstone Fireside commented, "We were very impressed with Sobol's plans to harness the broad reach of the internet and through a very well-thought out editorial process find three great works of fiction. We can't wait to read them."