Congratulations to Sylvia Hubbard, 2008 Community Literary Legend Author from The Black Authors Network!

Sylvia Hubbard Author, Blogger and Founder of Motown Writers Network http://sylviahubbard.com http://loveablackwoman.com http://motownwriters.com http://michiganliterarynetwork.com http://aaeln.com (African American Electronic Literary Network) http://hubbooks.biz   Author of Romance & Suspense and Internet Marketing for Writers & Business   NOW AVAILABLE: Secrets, Lies and Family Ties order your copy now Coming Soon: Tanner's Devil www.redrosepublishing.com --- On Sun, 2/22/09, Sylvia Hubbard <sylviahubbard1@yahoo.com> wrote: From: Sylvia Hubbard <sylviahubbard1@yahoo.com> Subject: Congratulations to Sylvia Hubbard, 2008 Community Literary Legend Author from The Black Authors Network! To: yexsenia2@yahoo.com Date: Sunday, February 22, 2009, 11:45 PM     Congratulations to Sylvia Hubbard, 2008 Community Literary Legend Author from The Black Authors Network! To Listen to the Show announcement, please go to: EDC Creations Virtual Award Show. "She is a truly multi-faceted woman," Ella Curry, founder of The Black Authors Network.     Sylvia Hubbard - Author of Stone's Revenge and Secrets, Lies & Family Ties Free Novels Available on the site! http://myspace.com/sylviahubbard |

1234567890 Other Reasons to Celebrate Friday the 13th - Today

I love knowing odd things and I was feeling kind of .... irkish that I couldn't find a great way celebrate it (especially since I'm going to see Jason tonight).   But I don't think we should think of the 13th of Friday is a bad thing.   So when this came across my email, I thought it was PERFECT!!!     Unix Time Celebrates 1234567890 Day Posted: 13 Feb 2009 07:48 AM PST Its 1234567890 Day today! On Friday, February 13 at exactly 3:31:30 PM (PST) Unix time will equal 1234567890. The world is celebrating the milestone with global 1234567890 parties today. So what is Unix time? Unix time, or POSIX time, is a system for describing points in time, defined as the number of seconds elapsed since midnight Coordinated Universal Time (UTC) of January 1, 1970, not counting leap seconds. It is widely used on Unix-like operating systems and many other computing systems. So 1234567890 means (2009-02-13 23:31:30Z). Someone set up a countdown counter which shows under 7 hours till the event finale. See which 1234567890 Day parties are occurring in your city and join the fun. A similar numerological date in computer history occurred on March 17, 2005 when at 19:58:31 Central Time, for the first time the entire world of computers rolled over to the longest ever number of repeating clock digits: 1,111,111,111 seconds. If you had software that supported milliseconds, you could see an amazing timestamp of 1,111,111,111,111.     Sylvia Hubbard Author, Blogger and Founder of Motown Writers Network http://sylviahubbard.com http://motownwriters.com http://michiganliterarynetwork.com http://detroitliterarynetwork.com     NOW AVAILABLE: Secrets, Lies and Family Ties order your copy now

Fw:Five Updates from Your Author, Sylvia Hubbard

The Literary World of Sylvia Hubbard Updates Five Updates from Your Author Posted: 08 Feb 2009 08:16 PM CST Five Updates from Your Author:   Hellow everyone! It's been quiet on the home front and I know you all would love to know what's going on. First off: Tanner's Devil I have signed a contract to publish with Red Rose Publishing (www.redrosepublishing) for electronic and print rights. I will rely on you to spread the word about this book and of course [...] Sylvia Hubbard Author, Blogger and Founder of Motown Writers Network http://sylviahubbard.com http://motownwriters.com http://michiganliterarynetwork.com http://detroitliterarynetwork.com     NOW AVAILABLE: Secrets, Lies and Family Ties order your copy now

Amazon.com and Penguin Group (USA) Now Accepting Submissions for Second Annual Amazon Breakthrough Novel Award Competition Through Feb. 8

Amazon.com and Penguin Group (USA) Now Accepting Submissions for Second Annual Amazon Breakthrough Novel Award Competition Through Feb. 8 SEATTLE & NEW YORK--(BUSINESS WIRE)-- Amazon.com, Inc. (NASDAQ:AMZN), Penguin Group (USA) (NYSE:PSO) and CreateSpace are accepting submissions for the second annual Amazon Breakthrough Novel Award competition at www.amazon.com/abna from today through midnight EST on Feb. 8, 2009. The competition aims to find the next popular novel, with the winner to receive a publishing contract with Penguin Group (USA), which includes a $25,000 advance. Entries will be accepted until Feb. 8, or until 10,000 entries have been received, whichever comes first. Once the submission window has closed, the entries will be evaluated and the selection process will begin. Key dates for the competition are as follows: Feb. 8       Submission period ends   March 16 500 quarterfinalists announced, selected by Amazon expert reviewers   April 15 100 semifinalists announced, selected based on Publishers Weekly reviews   May 15 Three finalists selected by Penguin Group (USA) editors announced; Amazon.com customers begin to cast their votes for the Grand Prize Winner   May 15-21 Critiques of the top three manuscripts posted by panel of publishing industry professionals, including bestselling authors Sue Grafton and Sue Monk Kidd, literary agent Barney Karpfinger and Penguin Press Editor-in-Chief Eamon Dolan   May 22 Amazon Breakthrough Novel Award winner – chosen by Amazon.com customers – announced Authors can enter the Amazon Breakthrough Novel Award competition and find contest details by visiting www.amazon.com/abna. About Amazon.com Amazon.com, Inc. (NASDAQ:AMZN), a Fortune 500 company based in Seattle, opened on the World Wide Web in July 1995 and today offers Earth's Biggest Selection. Amazon.com, Inc. seeks to be Earth's most customer-centric company, where customers can find and discover anything they might want to buy online, and endeavors to offer its customers the lowest possible prices. Amazon.com and other sellers offer millions of unique new, refurbished and used items in categories such as books, movies, music & games, digital downloads, electronics & computers, home & garden, toys, kids & baby, grocery, apparel, shoes & jewelry, health & beauty, sports & outdoors, and tools, auto & industrial. Amazon Web Services provides Amazon's developer customers with access to in-the-cloud infrastructure services based on Amazon's own back-end technology platform, which developers can use to enable virtually any type of business. Examples of the services offered by Amazon Web Services are Amazon Elastic Compute Cloud (Amazon EC2), Amazon Simple Storage Service (Amazon S3), Amazon SimpleDB, Amazon Simple Queue Service (Amazon SQS), Amazon Flexible Payments Service (Amazon FPS), Amazon Mechanical Turk and Amazon CloudFront. Amazon and its affiliates operate websites, including www.amazon.com, www.amazon.co.uk, www.amazon.de, www.amazon.co.jp, www.amazon.fr, www.amazon.ca and www.amazon.cn. As used herein, "Amazon.com," "we," "our" and similar terms include Amazon.com, Inc., and its subsidiaries, unless the context indicates otherwise. Forward-Looking Statements This announcement contains forward-looking statements within the meaning of Section 27A of the Securities Act of 1933 and Section 21E of the Securities Exchange Act of 1934. Actual results may differ significantly from management's expectations. These forward-looking statements involve risks and uncertainties that include, among others, risks related to competition, management of growth, new products, services and technologies, potential fluctuations in operating results, international expansion, outcomes of legal proceedings and claims, fulfillment center optimization, seasonality, commercial agreements, acquisitions and strategic transactions, foreign exchange rates, system interruption, indebtedness, inventory, government regulation and taxation, payments and fraud. More information about factors that potentially could affect Amazon.com's financial results is included in Amazon.com's filings with the Securities and Exchange Commission, including its most recent Annual Report on Form 10-K and subsequent filings. About Penguin Group (USA) Penguin Group (USA) Inc. is the U.S. member of the internationally renowned Penguin Group. Penguin Group (USA) is one of the leading U.S. adult and children's trade book publishers, owning a wide range of imprints and trademarks, including Viking, G. P. Putnam's Sons, The Penguin Press, Riverhead Books, Dutton, Penguin Books, Berkley Books, Gotham Books, Portfolio, New American Library, Plume, Tarcher, Philomel, Grosset & Dunlap, Puffin, and Frederick Warne, among others. The Penguin Group (http://www.penguin.com) is part of Pearson plc, the international media company. About CreateSpace CreateSpace is a business of On-Demand Publishing LLC, a subsidiary of Amazon.com, Inc. (NASDAQ:AMZN). A leader in manufacture on demand services for independent creative content owners, CreateSpace was originally founded as CustomFlix Labs, Inc. in 2002 and acquired by Amazon.com, Inc. in 2005. The company's mission is to connect its members to a worldwide audience through multiple channels, including Amazon.com. CreateSpace provides inventory-free, physical distribution of Books, CDs and DVDs on Demand, video downloads via Amazon Video On Demand and music downloads via Amazon MP3. Source: Amazon.com, Inc. Amazon Media Hotline 206-266-7180 or Penguin Group (USA) Marilyn Ducksworth, 212-366-2564 marilyn.ducksworth@us.penguingroup.com Stephanie Sorensen, 212-366-2576 stephanie.sorensen@us.penguingroup.com or CreateSpace Amanda Wilson, 843-789-5163 pr@createspace.com