Novel in it's first competition!

This is an exciting time for me. My first novel is published, which is a big accomplishment all by itself for me. Now I have entered it into the Amazon Breakthrough Novel Awards competition! Right now we are traversing round one that ends Feb. 24, which will narrow down the 5000 entries to 1000. I will keep updates running as best I can about the results of this competition.
While I wait for the results the second novel is in the works with hundreds of scrap pieces of paper filled with notes all over the table. Ideas keep coming and it is getting harder to find a place for them all. Might just have to save some of them for another book...
Well, I am going to spend some quality time with my family (the new job I have limits me from being with them all the time - when they are not working or out of school). Be back soon to write more blogs and update my competition status. Until then - Best wishes to you all and good luck to those I am in the running with.