Welcome back, cherished readers!
It’s been a long time since I’ve shared anything in this space. Spring sort of came and went as I busied myself with entering Day of Epiphany in a number of award competitions, trying to drum up reviews, and beginning my 3rd novel (more on that in a later post), in addition to a whole lot of non-writing endeavours and obligations.
I thought I had reason to be optimistic: The Perpetual Now did fairly well, and I was entering what I believed was a superior book for many of the same awards. And so I waited… And waited…
Then, on June 3rd, I received word from the Whistler Independent Book Awards that Day of Epiphany had been named to their Shortlist for Fiction! Now, I’ve seen shortlists before; depending on the award, they can include upwards of a dozen titles. This was a total of six! Nor were there any sub-categories, beyond Fiction, Non-Fiction, and Children’s books. Of course, by then I’d learned to be cautious, and seeing as there was already a lot going on at the time, I thought I’d wait out the six weeks until the finalists were named.
It was worth it! On July 18th, I learned that my novel was named as a Finalist, along with two other titles! The winners will be announced during the Whistler Writers Festival, from October 30th to November 2nd.
Amid all this, word came on June 19th that Day of Epiphany was also named as a Finalist in the Historical Fiction category for the National Indie Excellence Awards, along with seven other titles. You can find it here: https://www.indieexcellence.com/19th-annual-finalists
There are still a number of other awards to be announced, most notably the Canadian Authors Association Fred Kerner Book Awards (winners and finalists to be announced sometime this summer), the Readers’ Favourite Annual Book Award Contest (September 1st), the Readers Digest Self-Published Book Awards (October 17th), and my old friends the Best Indie Book Awards, or BIBAs (November 30th).
Next up: musings on novel #3…
So I wrote this novel... 