I'm nominated all over the place at eFestival of Words o_O
Nominations were released yesterday for the eFestival of Words awards. The eFestival is an indie/small press virtual book fair that'll be happening this August. I have to make this quick because I'm due somewhere, but this is all the stuff I've been nominated for somehow--I have NO idea who nominated me:
--Best Short Story: "The Gratification Engine" (SERIOUSLY? not my best work)
--Best Short Story Collection, single author: "Accounts"
--Best Novel: "Son in Sorrow"
--Best Cover: "Son in Sorrow"
--Harvey Award (book we'd like to see made into a movie): "Son in Sorrow"
I'll be surprised if I win in any of these categories looking at who else I'm up against, but as the cliché goes it's an honor just to be nominated--except I really mean it. 
An Intimate History of the Greater Kingdom, The Drifting Isle Chronicles and Scryer's Gulch by Lynn Siprelle writing as MeiLin Miranda are licensed under a Creative Commons Attribution-Noncommercial-No Derivative Works 3.0 United States License.
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Vote?
Do fans get to vote, or is this a panel of impartial (ha!) judges that read ALL of the books and decide?
I don't think you're crazy. I think you're colorful. The kind of colorful that does well with medication!
My wish list
voting
The nominations were by peers (how collected I don't know). The finalists will be chosen by festival staff/judges, and the winners will be chosen by festival attendees.
I hope you're surprised
And I expect that you might be. We all know how bloody much work you've poured into these things.
It's supposed to be a challenge, that's why they call it a shortcut. If it was easy it would just be the way.
--Road Trip
"Funny. Terrible, but funny." (that's typically my aim)
-NorthwoodsMan
work isn't enough, I fear
...or everyone would win everything.
We'll see. I think I've been nominated more than anyone else, or darn close. That in itself is amazing.
It is amazing. (and so are you)
Yeah--your work shows. Clearly.
It's supposed to be a challenge, that's why they call it a shortcut. If it was easy it would just be the way.
--Road Trip
"Funny. Terrible, but funny." (that's typically my aim)
-NorthwoodsMan
Congratulations!!!! It's
Congratulations!!!! It's always great to receive a surprise endorsement from your peers! You're right - it might be cliched but it IS an honor
Hey, sometimes it's a cliche because there's no better way to say it!
I admit to not having read...
... anything on those lists except your works. But still.
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I'll be surprised if I win in any of these categories looking at who else I'm up against[...]
that would be the big exception, yes
I wouldn't be surprised if that won. But in actual fact, I'm betting it won't. That style of cover is very much out of fashion--the hand-drawn. Manipulated photos are very much the thing; it's felt that otherwise, readers are too stupid to know what the book is about.
Who the hell...
... comes up with idiotic crap like that? I mean, sure, there's a lot of bullshit at all levels of the advertising business (which cover design essentially is), but really?! No wonder the publishing industry is in difficulties if that's the level of wisdom they operate at.
Let's recap this then: the function of the cover is to grab your attention and spark your interest. Nothing more, but certainly nothing less. A book whose cover is essentially indistinguishable from every other cover on the same shelf fails miserably at its sole task. It's the blurb that needs to tell the reader, once the cover has done its job and grabbed the reader's attention to the point that they actually take it in hand, turn it around and read the blurb (in dead tree) or click on the product page and read about the book (in electronic), what the bloody thing is all about. And all too many blurbs fail miserably at that task, too. (Cue the blurb doctor.
)
*shakes head, wanders off in agitation, mumbling invectives*
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