Friday, September 26, 2008

Matt wins Unpublished Novel Competition!

Bookhabit.com is pleased to announce the winner of the inaugural Bookhabit Unpublished Competition is Matt Fullerty's The Pride and the Sorrow. Matt receives a US$5000 prize and is "thrilled" about winning the first Bookhabit competition. We will be posting an interview with Matt on Bookhabit.com shortly. Congratulations from Bookhabit! You can see full details with an endorsement of the novel at http://www.bookhabit.com/newsdetail.php?nid=48

The Pride and the Sorrow is the story of Paul Morphy (1837-1884), born in New Orleans as a chess prodigy, his famous journey through Europe and his ultimate downfall on and off the chessboard. He is celebrated in fashionable European society, honored by Napoleon III of France and Queen Victoria of England and returns to New Orleans a local celebrity, only to find Civil War looming, a storm brewing in his family and his own mind coming apart ...


The novel itself is available at http://bookhabit.com/book_details.php?book_id=459

2 comments:

  1. Congratulations! Just now about getting it published....

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  2. Matthew,

    Posting wonderful info like this on the web inevitably means that your work will be chapioned in the strangest of places--like my team blog www.carburetordungtoo.blogspot.com

    Your publicity post will be the one for 7/18/08. Enter if you dare.

    A Mysterious Former/Current Colleague

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