An Award!

So, I am excited to annouce that two people awarded me The Liebster Blog Award! Free e-books daily and Fans of Fiction. Thanks so much guys! It has taken me awhile to post about this as real life has prevented me from sitting down and working on the blog. I took that blog vacation and we moved from a one bedroom apartment to a two bedroom! Huzzah! I get a lot more sleep now that the little one is in her own room and doesn't have her crib in the corner of our bedroom.
So the rules are that this award gets passed on to five lucky blogs that have under 200 followers. So some blogs that I follow regularly that meet that critieria are:

Bookworm Nation

Madigan Reads

A Thousand and One Parsecs

And some newbies I just discovered:

Low Country Book Blog

Book Rants

Whitney Award Winners 2009

Best Romance

Counting the Cost by Liz Adair

Best Mystery/Suspense

Methods of Madness by Stephanie Black

Best Youth Fiction

The Chosen One by Carol Lynch Williams

Best Speculative Fiction

Servant of a Dark God

Best Historical Fiction

The Last Waltz by G. G. Vandegriff

Best General Fiction

Hotel on the Coner of Bitter and Sweet by Jamie Ford

Best Novel by New Author (a tie! wow!)

I am not a Serial Killer by Dan Wells

and

Gravity vs the Girl by Riley Noehren

Best Novel of The Year

In the Company of Angels by Dave Farland

Outstanding Achievement Award: Dave Wolverton/Farland
-For helping so many aspiring authors hone the craft.

Lifetime Achievement Award: Gerald Lund
-For introducing so many people to LDS fiction.



For fun look over some predictions.....
Segullah
Motley Vision
LDS Publisher

And the Whitney Award Winners are.....

I just spent a fun two days at the LDS Storymakers writing conference in Provo. Every year the conference grows! I think there were 250 of us this year. Anyway, I just finished watching the live chat/twitter stream on the Whitney Award website, and here are the winners:

Best Novel of the Year
Traitor by Sandra Grey

Best Novel by New Author
Bound on Earth By Angela Hallstrom

Best Romance
Spare Change by Aubrey Mace

Best Mystery/Suspense
Fool Me Twice by Stephanie Black

Best Youth Fiction
The 13th Reality by James Dashner

Best Speculative Fiction
Hero of Ages by Brandon Sanderson

Best Historical
Abinadi by H.B. Moore

Best General Fiction
Waiting for the Light to Change by Annette Haws

Congrats to all those authors out there! Most of these books I've read and enjoyed immensely! Shout out to all those authors, writers, and bloggers I met this weekend. It was wonderful to meet you all.

Whitney Awards Announced....

So, I checked the whitney awards website at 7:05 am this morning to see the winners, and then had to rush off to work. I'm way excited. I know I should be more excited about, you know, the Newbery's that recently were announced. Yet, I'm more excited about this announcement. I want the LDS fiction market to get better and I think this award is a big step. So go check out the best LDS books of 2008

http://www.whitneyawards.com/2008finalists.html

Should I try to read them all? How many of you out there are going to try and read them all? I've read several, but I counted and I'd need to read 21 and some of them are in the middle of a seires. For example the Wyrmling Horde by Dave Farland is the tenth book in a series, I think. I don't know how that will work. I hate reading in the middle of a seires. I have a thing with reading them all in order.