A lot of us have been discussing the whole thorny issue of campaigning for awards. On the one hand, award electioneering offends many people. On the other hand, whats a poor author to do? Especially new authors who are battling uphill to get their books noticed to begin with? I think its perfectly acceptable for an author to mention her own works on her own Facebook page, in her Twitter feed, or in any other social media in which she has a presence--because its only going to people who have chosen to see it. And heres the form Id recommend using. In 2014, I had two books and a short story out, all humorous traditional works. The Good, The Bad, and the Emus (Minotaur, July 2014) The Nightingale Before Christmas (Minotaur, October 2014) A Christmas Trifle, in Homicidal Holidays (Wildside Press, October 2014) If youve read one of them and love it enough to nominate it, I would be very flattered. Note that I am not asking you to vote for them unless youve read and loved them! And I also think its never out of line to respond when someone invites you to share what works youve published that might be eligible. So heres an open invitation: Writers: if you want to mention your 2014 eligible works in a comment, feel free! Readers: want to mention a book youve read and loved, have at it! Theres still a little reading time between now and the first set of award deadlines--the Agatha deadline is January 20, and includes awards for the best contemporary, historical, first novel, short story, juvenile or YA, and nonfiction works--and the Left Coast Crime deadline is January 23 for the Lefty (humorous), Bruce Alexander (historical), Rose (set somewhere between the Mountain Time Zone and Hawaii) and Rosebud (first novel set anywhere) awards. (I have the sinking feeling that I may have just undone any progress I made last year in reducing the contents of my to-be-read mountain.)
Posted on: Mon, 05 Jan 2015 16:26:49 +0000
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