Bulwer-Lytton Award Winner Announced

Bad Writing Leads To Literary Award via NPR Topics: Authors on 6/30/09

San Jose State University's Bulwer-Lytton Fiction Contest honors bad writing. This year's winner is 55-year-old David McKenzie of Federal Way, Wash., who beat out hundreds of entries from around the world for crafting the worst-written beginning to an imaginary novel.

Congratulations Mr. McKenzie!

Awards Season

The American Library Association's Reading List Awards
via SF Signal on 1/25/08
The American Library Association's first Reading List Awards (winners as DOC link) for genre fiction includes many SF/F/H titles as chosen by a coucil of "ten librarians who are experts in readers' advisory and collection development".
Could this be the coolest response to receiving a major award ever?

Doris Lessing finally receives that Nobel Prize
via USATODAY.com Books - Top Stories on 1/30/08
Nobel literature laureate Doris Lessing, who greeted news of her victory with the words, "I couldn't care less"


Hammett Prize Nominees
via Fantasybookspot - News Feed on 2/1/08

Awards and a Holiday Bonus!

Books
Buzzfeed has a list of 5 lists
New York Times: '>100 Notable Books of the Year
Thrillers - Amazon's Top 10 for 2007
ENDEAVOUR AWARD/FOREST MAGE
SF Chronicle's Best Books of the Year
Spinetingler Awards Shortlist

Film
Best Films of 2007
National Board of Review Names No Country for Old Men Best Film
Awards Watch: Gothams Boost Into the Wild, Sicko, Juno's Ellen Page
Oscar Watch: Atonement Picks Up Steam
4 Months, 3 Weeks, 2 Days Wins at European FIlm Awards
Oscar Watch: Foreign Film
Dylan film leads Spirit Award nominees

The Reader's Advisor Online Blog

The Reader's Advisor Online Blog

I think I find this blog to be one of the most useful for reader's advisors that I've ever found. And small wonder! It's the free part of Reader's Advisor Online, which is the electronic part of Genreflecting and all of its spinoffs. If you work in a library and you do Reader's Advisory work. Subscribe via your newsreader. Do It Now!!!

RA Run Down What's going on in publishing that may be of use to us

Award Season

Harper Lee will be awarded the Presidential Medal of Freedom OK, this is just cool. In fact, it rocks. Who knew she was still alive?

Whiting Award winners

The IMPAC Dublin Award longlist

Best of Season
Publishers Weekly has listed 150 titles in its Best Books of the Year article.


I don't know what Cynthia Orr bases her bestseller mashups on but I do like them as well as USA Today for giving a reader's advisor the true scoop on what people are asking for. Bestseller Mashup

Fantasybookspot - Fantasy Book Reviews Interviews Science Fiction Book Reviews I

Fantasybookspot - Fantasy Book Reviews Interviews Science Fiction Book Reviews I
Why they don't just keep the name as Fantasybookspot is beyond me. There are also Romancebookspot and other bookspot blogs

2007 Ellis Peters Historical Dagger Award winner announced
Ariana Franklin’s second novel, Mistress of the Art of Death

Assorted Reviews:
Stamping Butterflies by Jon Courtenay Grimwood
Reader and Raelynx by Sharon Shinn
Inside Straight - A Wild Cards Novel edited by George R.R. Martin

Bookgasm: Reading Material to Get Excited About

Bookgasm: Reading Material to Get Excited About
and really, isn't the name of the blog exciting enough? NO! Here are some reads to get excited about!

A Killer’s Kiss by William Lashner
Drop Shot by Harlan Cohen
The Last Days of Krypton by Kevin Anderson - superman prequel
Jon Courtenay Grimwood's End of the World Blues Winner of multiple SF awards this year

Announcement of the 2007 Weblog Awards

AWARD SEASON BEGINS!

CRITICAL MASS is kicking off the announcements with Connecticut Book Award in Fiction to Weber's "Triangle". I read this one folks, and it's kinda neato