Candy Jar Books is pleased to
announce that Breaking the Surface is now available to pre-order.
Twelve short stories were selected by the
judges for publication in Breaking the
Surface including Andrea Wotherspoon’s winning entry of the same title (for
which she also won a Kindle Fire). Sarah Evans, Tony Mayle and Jane Collins
were also highly commended for their entries.
The Cardiff-based publisher relaunched the
competition to coincide with its summer book festival last year. Laura Foakes
won the 2012/2013 competition with her entry The Countess and the Mole Man. She continued to work with Candy Jar
and saw the release of her debut children’s book The Liars’ and Fibbers’ Academy last year.
Hayley Cox, senior publishing coordinator
at Candy Jar Books, said: “We invite submissions for our short story contest
biannually and have held two competitions so far. Both times we were inundated
with excellent stories. This is an exciting year for Candy Jar, we will be releasing
books from established, as well as debut authors but it’s great to promote
previously unpublished writers within this anthology. The quality of writing was
truly outstanding and we had a number of entries from all across the UK.”
Breaking
the Surface contains the twelve winning stories and is available
to pre-order for £9.99 from www.candyjarbooks.co.uk
ahead of the general release of the paperback and ebook editions in the summer.
