So... I guess people like my writing?
This weekend, at the GCLS Conference, I have two novels nominated for awards. In addition, I just found out that I'm nominated six times over at the
2010 Femslash Awards! Go over and take a look and see if you deem any of them worthy of your votes. I know I'd be thrilled to see "Cinder and Smoke" and "
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It took SO long for me to get past that "Of course YOU like it, you're my FRIENDS. Real people would hate it!" phase. I'm still there a little bit, but... just a little bit. ;-D
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I don't know how to explain two of them being up for awards, though... hm. Oh! I'm a straight male writing lesbian novels. Some kind of affirmative action must be taking place! That's it! :D
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Two = Sold the first born
Three = Made a deal with the devil
Four = You're a bona fide writer.
Four + Nominations = You're a bona fide writer and people like your writing.
Now, when you've WON those awards we can start with the sour grapes about affirmative action and how you didn't really *earn* those awards you earned were given.
Or, I suppose it's more parsimonious to explain it as, "you write well and make your readers happy." But that just isn't very wanky, now is it?
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As for the awards, I'm not getting my hopes up. Although the person who notified me DID let it "slip" that Radclyffe and Karin Kallmaker were on the list of nominations but didn't get on the shortlist. So I've at least made it farther than they did. Which is... mind-boggling. :D
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