Hilary Mantel's Wolf Hall has won the Booker Prize!

I would have been beside myself with rage if it hadn't. Best book I've read for years.

Wow!

Sherlock Holmes and the Ravenclaw Codex came joint runner-up in the Best Crossover category of the Quibbler Awards!
OK, some of the more decorated readers of this journal might sneer and consider this of no account, but personally I'm well chuffed.

Remember how I was all bursting with pride and glee about how Sherlock Holmes and the Ravenclaw Codex has been nominated for a Quibbler Award?

Well, voting is now open, so if any of you - *hem hem!* - feel like wandering over and lending me your support, how happy that would make me. You have to read the rules and find a word to enter at the end of ( Read more... )

Wow! Sherlock Holmes and the Ravenclaw Codex has been nominated for a Forbidden Award! For a Hogwarts Swingers Award, to be precise! (don't worry, that's just the forbiddenawards  special name for Harry Potter crossover fics)

There's no way I'll get this one because I'm up against sam_storyteller among other eminent people... but it's the thought that counts. And I'm very ( Read more... )

OMG Sherlock Holmes and the Ravenclaw Codex has been nominated for a Quibbler Award!

I know I'm not going to win, because I have very few readers, keep my head down and don't ship - but all the same... I've never been up for an award, and it's really exciting. I came over quite Gwynneth Paltrow for a few moments back there.

In the meantime, in case ( Read more... )