Article: Amazon.com, Penguin Group (USA) and HP Name Bill Loehfelm Winner of Amazon Breakthrough Novel Award.

Bill Loehfelm, author of the novel Fresh Kills, an evacuee of Hurricane Katrina and current resident of New Orleans, wins contest in search of next popular novel, receives publishing contract worth $25,000

Elizabeth Gilbert, the New York Times-bestselling author of Eat, Pray, Love, says "Fresh Kills quickly expands past itself, blows away its limiting genre boundaries, and becomes a story of real psychological complexity and emotional realism."

NEW YORK, April 7, 2008 /PRNewswire/ -- Amazon.com, Inc., Penguin Group (USA) and HP named Bill Loehfelm the winner of the Amazon Breakthrough Novel Award, the contest in search of the next popular novel. The ...

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