In 2017, I'm hoping to get one of these.
Take a look.
Nice, huh? They look nifty, right? They really are. They're about ten pounds each, perhaps more, of pure, handcrafted, blown glass. Each one of them is unique, so no two of them look a like. There is literally no other award like it.
Here, let's pull back a bit.
When I started the year, I out and out said that I would lay money on Live and Let Bite being the winner in horror for the second annual Dragon Awards, this September.And it wasn't boasting. I figured it was simply logical.
It had everything good from the trilogy to date, and more of it.
It had more romance
It had more action.
It had more vampires.
It had an expansion of the vampire lore I'd already established.
It has SpecOps minions, it has terrorist attacks with RPGs, shootouts, vampires going to war with street gangs, the mafia, the NYPD, other vampires, leveling three separate buildings, gun battles with Vatican Ninjas, miniguns, mental warfare, a vampire that took a MOAB to the FACE, and everything short of demons... Because I'd already done that. I have shootouts that make Underworld look like a day trip to Chicago.
But now ... I'm not entirely certain that people like it more than Murphy's Law of Vampires.
It seems that Marina Fontaine suggest edthat there wasn't as much of a threat in Bite as in Murphy's.
Jim seemed to have an issue with how perfect some of my fight scenes went.
And JD Cowan's review seemed to encompass the entire series.
Though I'll admit, it was nice to see Injustice Gamer's review: "Declan thinks this will win him a Dragon Award. I'm not going to tell him he's wrong.....This is the best entry for the series so far."
Heh.
Anyway, Murphy's vs. Bite is going to be a coin toss. Which is strange, but not the first time I've been wrong. Please remember, I didn't think that Honor at Stake would go this far. I wasn't expecting any of the accolades it got last year. I didn't expect it to go farther than an "it's okay" while I worked on a half dozen other projects.
So ... what do I know?
Thankfully, as I mentioned in my last Dragon Award post, both Murphy's and Bite are eligible
Don't worry, I'm not going to kvetch if you prefer one of my books over another.
Again, I'm obviously the last person to judge.
Anyway, The Dragon Awards are open and ready for nominations, and I have a list of suggestions for you. If you already have a good idea of what you want, just click here to go and vote for them immediately. The instructions are right there.
The Love at First Bite series.
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