Patricia McArdle’s novel Farishta features solar cooking as a sub-plot. It’s based on the year she spent as senior State Department representative in northern Afghanistan, where she built and demonstrated solar cookers as she went out on long patrols with the British Military Observation Teams.
Patricia McArdle
Amazon announced that Farishta is one of three finalists (out of 5,000 entries) in the General Fiction category of this year’s Amazon Breakthrough Novel Award contest. The 5000 original manuscripts went through four months of evaluation by a panel of judges from Penguin Books, Publishers Weekly and Amazon.com.
The three finalists must now compete for votes on Amazon.com to determine who will win a full publishing contract with Penguin Books.
If you are an Amazon customer, Patricia would be grateful if you would go to this page, log on and vote for Farishta. Just under the big banner you will see: Cast your vote in General Fiction and Young Adult Fiction.
Read an excerpt from the novel.
