I
have news. But before I share that news, let me tell you the story of how I
came by it.
I’ve
had a rough week. I’m so incredibly close to sending my next manuscript to my
publisher, but every time I get rolling, something gets in my way. This week,
it has mostly been house drama. There’s this whole mold problem with the house
we’ve been fighting with the HOA about for 6 months… that’s another story which
I’m going to ignore for now. What it means is that I've had contractors in my
house half the week while I fielded dozens of emails about the subject every
day. Then there's my dryer, which I’m trying to fix… I ended up in the scary, dark crawl space
behind the dryer for an hour or so yesterday. Good times. So when it didn’t
work again today coupled with the whole to-do list crashing in on my head, I had a
minor melt-down. Tears, cursing, cats hiding. The whole bit.
Once
I wrung myself out, I picked up my laptop again, determined to accomplish
something today. So I started on the little things I could get done in a hurry.
One of these tasks happened to be grabbing a quote from Magick Charm’s review at Romantic Times Book Reviews for my publisher’s website. Easy enough. So I headed
to RT’s page of my review and here’s what I saw:
What’s
that yellow print? That wasn’t there the last time I saw this. A… nomination…??
My
brain shorted out for a moment and then I started thinking again. While my book
was published in 2010, the review was written in 2011. Therefore, the book
could be nominated for the 2011 awards. I hadn’t even read through the nomination list before now. I completely missed it. So I clicked on the yellow
link and find this:
Yep,
that’s my name beside the nomination title.
About
this time, John walked in the door and I called him over to the computer. I
pointed out both web pages, just to make sure I wasn’t losing my mind or
anything. He couldn’t vouch for my sanity, but he did confirm that I was
nominated for the RT Reviewers' Choice Awards!
So
that’s the story of how it took me 3+ months to discover my nomination. And it
was exactly what I needed after a long, frustrating week. I swear, I’m still
shaking with excitement!
The
winners will be announced in the June issue of RT, which I should have in my
hands in about 3 weeks. I think my head would explode if I actually won my
category, but I’ve discovered that it really is true what they say - it is an
absolute thrill and an honor to be nominated. I am so amazingly happy that
people like my book and they get my strange brand of humor. Thank you, readers, and thank you, RT!
