MeeGenius!, a new reading, bookstore and publishing application for iPhone, iPad, iPod Touch and Web users, is offering a temporary discount on the price of its proprietary app. For a limited time, the $1.99 app will be available for purchase for the discounted price of just $0.99. We are pleased to bring you a review from MeeGenius! soon, but are happy to provide you with a press release about a great contest that has just launched first.
Children’s Book Authors Noted Authors Laura Dave, Jane Green, and Allison Winn Scotch to be Guest
Judges; Contest Celebrates National Literacy Month
NEW YORK (September 15, 2010) – To commemorate National Literacy Month, Wandy Yeap Hoh and David Park, co-founders of MeeGenius! (www.MeeGenius.com), have announced a contest to find the best new children’s book authors. MeeGenius!, a new reading, bookstore and publishing application for iPhone, iPad, iPod Touch and Web users, will award the winners a publishing deal with the innovative application, which Yeap Hoh and Park introduced to critical acclaim in April 2010. Celebrated novelists Laura Dave (author of The Divorce Party), Jane Green (author of Promises to Keep), and Allison Winn Scotch (author of The One That I Want) will lend their literary expertise as guest judges to assist MeeGenius! in its quest to find new manuscripts for children’s stories.
MeeGenius! invites aspiring authors everywhere to submit manuscripts for review from September 15 until 5 p.m. ET on October 31, 2010. The grand prize of an e-book publishing contract on the MeeGenius proprietary publishing platform and an iPad will be awarded to one talented winner. Four runners-up will receive an e-book publishing contract and an iPod Touch.
MeeGenius! will accept original stories with illustrations via the MeeGenius! author platform at www.meegenius.com/bookContest. The panel of judges, including Dave, Green, and Winn Scotch as well as Yeap Hoh and Park, will read all entries and select the next MeeGenius! publishing stars. Ten finalists will be chosen in November, from which the winners will be selected and awarded. The finalists’ stories will be posted on MeeGenius.com, so all visitors to the site will have a chance to provide feedback, praise and encouragement. Winners will be announced in January 2011. Stories will be judged on:
Appropriate story/content for children ages three to eight
Emotional connection
Writing quality
Uniqueness
Read-aloud potential
Official rules and regulations can be found at www.meegenius.com/bookContest.
“MeeGenius! takes pride in finding new writing talent to keep our ever-growing library of children’s literature new and fresh,” explained Yeap Hoh. “We felt that a contest would be the perfect way to find budding writers eager to publish their work through the new MeeGenius! eBook publishing platform. We are so fortunate to have the talents of Laura Dave, Jane Green, and Allison Winn Scotch as guest judges and are grateful to these wonderful authors for lending their time and knowledge.”
As a gesture of appreciation for their services, MeeGenius! plans to donate five percent of the net revenues from all winning books to The Breast Cancer Research Foundation® (http://www.bcrfcure.org/) supported by Dave, The Hole in the Wall Gang Camp (www.holeinthewallgang.org) supported by Green, and the Young Survival Coalition.