Demon Queen Now Top 50 YA

by Spencer Baum on May 1, 2010

The 2010 Amazon Breakthrough Novel Award has just made another round of cuts.  The contest started with 10,000 novels, which were cut to 1,000 and then 500 by Amazon Vine Program participants.  The 500 were just cut to 100 by Publishers Weekly.  Of those 100, fifty are young adult novels, and Demon Queen is one of them!

Editors at Penguin are now reading the top 100 manuscripts and at the end of May, they will cut them down to six finalists.

As part of this process, I got a review from Publishers Weekly.  Here’s an excerpt:

Characters and plot propel readers through this exciting story. Kevin, Jackie and Joseph are all convincing teens with real contributions to the manuscript…Skillfully written, this novel will captivate teens, including reluctant readers.

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The Author

For more than 15 years Spencer Baum wrote blistering pageturners with sci fi and horror elements.

His first novel was used as a textbook in a Harvard classroom and was optioned for a movie by Brand New Productions in Hollywood. His second novel was an Amazon Breakthrough Novel Award Semifinalist. His Girls Wearing Black novels have been fantasy and suspense bestsellers on Amazon, Barnes & Noble, and iBooks.

Though he was able to make a living from his books during the early years of the digital publishing revolution, the changing nature of that marketplace meant that he had to rejoin the real world in 2019 following publication of his final novel, The Tetradome Run. He now works full-time and writes very little. This web site remains up for those who have recently discovered his books.

He lives in Albuquerque, New Mexico with his wife and three children.

Send emails to: spencerbaum75@gmail.com