Yes, just a little follow up post. I don't intend to make this a habit, since even I'm tired of posting these, I'm almost certain you're tired of reading them. So I'm going to make this a collection of quick reminders, and a bit of an update.
Anyway, a quick look at what's up.
This one is a book blogger's award. They have two categories: short and long. Click on the above link for the instructions.
But if you have a blog and write about books, knock yourselves out.
I have only two books from last year that qualify, I think: Live and Let Bite and Good to the Last Drop, books three and four of Love at First Bite.
Yes, I only released two last year. I suck. Everything else was in a short story collection.
Also recall that Richard Paolinelli's Escaping Infinity came out last year. As did Another Girl, Another Planet. And Starship Grifters book 2, Aye, Robot, Jon's For Steam and Country, and Jagi's latest.
Though JD Cowan has already put Drop up for this award. Who knew?
The really important thing though? If you are a book blogger, you need to have your nomination in by February 14th, 11:59 PM US Pacific time.
That's A WEEK FROM TOMORROW. If you have a book blog, get cracking.
Technically, this has been open since October, 2017. In part because everything eligible for nomination is first published between 7/1/2017 and 6/30/2018.
You can the click above in order to start voting.
Technically, I've got a single book that is eligible: Good to the Last Drop, book 4 of Love at First Bite....
This, of course, will be a problem with having Silver Empire rerelease Love at First Bite: Good to the Last Drop will not be available for purchase for the majority of the voting process. So, sure, I'll throw my hat in the ring, but I'd put this as less likely to even get the nomination this year than in previous years ... and I was 50/50 on whether or not that would happen.
If you have not yet read Good to the Last Drop, buy it now before it is removed from the shelf. That should be around the end of the month. So you will want to get cracking.
If you want my thoughts on the Dragons, they're not many. My reading speed this year has been severely compromised by nonstop work.
Best Science Fiction Novel
Karl Gallagher: Torchship Captain. Yes, really. I haven't enjoyed a book series so much since David Weber's earliest Honor Harrington.
Nope... that's it. That's all I have. Most of the others that I mentioned for the Planetary award aren't available for the Dragons -- they were too early in the year. Karl's book came out in September, a week after my novel, so I know he's eligible.
Best Fantasy Novel (Including Paranormal)
Since Larry doesn't want it for Monster Hunter International, I don't have anything offhand. The only fantasy that I recall reading offhand in the last year has been Monster Hunter Files. That's it. I think I read Terry Goodkind's The Nest, but that's from a few years ago. I'm starting to wonder how much fantasy I actually read boils down to being Jim Butcher.
If you want a suggestion from me ... perhaps Good to the Last Drop if you want it for fantasy instead of horror?
Best Young Adult/Middle Grade Novel
The Awful Truth About Forgetting (Rachel Griffin, book #4).... seriously, can we get Jagi an award for this series already?
Best Military Science Fiction or Fantasy Novel
I want to say David Weber. But I suspect that this might sooner go to Timothy Zahn for the Honorverse prequel novels. Just a guess.
Best Alternate History Novel
.... Someone tell Lou Antonelli to hurry up and finish his sequel to Another Girl Another Planet already. Other than that...
Okay, I may have a good one for this soon, as soon as I hurry up and read Hans Schantz' Hidden Truth series-- more specifically, book 2, A Rambling Wreck. It came out at the early end of the eligibility deadline.
Best Media Tie-In Novel
![Thrawn: Alliances (Star Wars) by [Zahn, Timothy]](https://images-na.ssl-images-amazon.com/images/I/51eVJfQfFrL.jpg)
Well, this is new. The category probably opened up as a good way to avoid having a flood of Star Wars or Star Trek books flood a category.
What I would like to happen is to nominate Timothy Zahn's Thrawn book. But Thrawn: Alliances is coming out on June 26th, which is hardly enough time for people to get it, read it, and vote. Hell, a lot of people are going to have already voted by then.
But now that we have a Media Tie-in category, can we have a best comic book movie now? That way it's not a Marvel Vs DC knock down drag out every year?
Best Horror Novel
As usual, I have nothing. The only horror I go near is what I write.
So, there's Good to the Last Drop. Again. Yes, sorry about that.
Now, I could argue that Good to the Last Drop is the culmination of the previous three novels, two of which were nominated for Dragon Awards. I've got demons, Vatican Ninjas, vampire hordes, shapeshifters, and anti-Vampire "civilians" (a collection of police, street gangs, and the Mafia, because welcome to New York, you bloodsucking bastards).
Personally, this might be more Urban Fantasy than horror, but the last two were in horror, so I guess no one at the Dragon Award committee objects.
Best Comic Book & Best Graphic Novel
I am so far behind on both of these categories, don't even ask me. I'm going to ask Jon del Arroz and Alfred Genesson if they could do some posts on this, that way I can link to them the next time this blog is updated.
Best Science Fiction or Fantasy TV Series, TV or Internet
The Orville. No, nothing else, just The Orville.
Lucifer has gotten better, but it wasn't as good as Orville at its best... At its worst? It's just mediocre. But those are only two episodes that made me wonder what was going on with Seth MacFarlane at the time.
Other eligible titles, but nothing I'm going to make a real fuss over.
The Defenders ... meh.
The Punisher I haven't seen it yet, and the reviews are so, so mixed.
Arrow ... The only DC show I'm still looking at, but I don't think it's earned it this year.
Best Science Fiction or Fantasy Movie
Justice League? Eh. No
The Last Jedi: Hell no.
Thor: Ragnarok ... maybe
Spider-Man: Homecoming ... not out of the realm of possibility.
Bright ...? I don't think was that good. It had some nice worldbuilding, and a lot of great little touches, but they could have cut 15 minutes from the film and missed nothing. In fact, they would have done so much better had they used that time to build up the story more.
Best Science Fiction or Fantasy PC / Console Game
This is a problem when you have so many games doing loot boxes that I have urges to just tell all of the games to go screw themselves.
Middle Earth: Shadow of War? Depends on who you ask.
X-Com 2: War of the Chosen -- ditto
Cuphead
Super Mario Oddessy.
There are, of course, Persona and Yakuza games that came out this year.... just don't ask me when. and Nier: Automata I've heard great things about, but it came out in January or February, and thus aren't eligible.
So, if you liked any of these, look up on the release date and make certain I didn't just suggest something that came out too early.
Best Science Fiction or Fantasy Mobile Game
Middle Earth: Shadow of War: Yes, I liked the mobile game. Move along.
Another category I'm useless in. Calling Alfred is also more useful here than I am.
Anyway, the Dragons are coming. Knock yourself out.
Anyway, a quick look at what's up.
This one is a book blogger's award. They have two categories: short and long. Click on the above link for the instructions.But if you have a blog and write about books, knock yourselves out.
I have only two books from last year that qualify, I think: Live and Let Bite and Good to the Last Drop, books three and four of Love at First Bite.
Yes, I only released two last year. I suck. Everything else was in a short story collection.
Also recall that Richard Paolinelli's Escaping Infinity came out last year. As did Another Girl, Another Planet. And Starship Grifters book 2, Aye, Robot, Jon's For Steam and Country, and Jagi's latest.
Though JD Cowan has already put Drop up for this award. Who knew?
The really important thing though? If you are a book blogger, you need to have your nomination in by February 14th, 11:59 PM US Pacific time.
That's A WEEK FROM TOMORROW. If you have a book blog, get cracking.
Technically, this has been open since October, 2017. In part because everything eligible for nomination is first published between 7/1/2017 and 6/30/2018.
You can the click above in order to start voting.
Technically, I've got a single book that is eligible: Good to the Last Drop, book 4 of Love at First Bite....
This, of course, will be a problem with having Silver Empire rerelease Love at First Bite: Good to the Last Drop will not be available for purchase for the majority of the voting process. So, sure, I'll throw my hat in the ring, but I'd put this as less likely to even get the nomination this year than in previous years ... and I was 50/50 on whether or not that would happen.
If you have not yet read Good to the Last Drop, buy it now before it is removed from the shelf. That should be around the end of the month. So you will want to get cracking.
If you want my thoughts on the Dragons, they're not many. My reading speed this year has been severely compromised by nonstop work.
Best Science Fiction Novel
Karl Gallagher: Torchship Captain. Yes, really. I haven't enjoyed a book series so much since David Weber's earliest Honor Harrington.
Nope... that's it. That's all I have. Most of the others that I mentioned for the Planetary award aren't available for the Dragons -- they were too early in the year. Karl's book came out in September, a week after my novel, so I know he's eligible.
Best Fantasy Novel (Including Paranormal)
Since Larry doesn't want it for Monster Hunter International, I don't have anything offhand. The only fantasy that I recall reading offhand in the last year has been Monster Hunter Files. That's it. I think I read Terry Goodkind's The Nest, but that's from a few years ago. I'm starting to wonder how much fantasy I actually read boils down to being Jim Butcher.
If you want a suggestion from me ... perhaps Good to the Last Drop if you want it for fantasy instead of horror?
Best Young Adult/Middle Grade Novel
The Awful Truth About Forgetting (Rachel Griffin, book #4).... seriously, can we get Jagi an award for this series already?
Best Military Science Fiction or Fantasy Novel
I want to say David Weber. But I suspect that this might sooner go to Timothy Zahn for the Honorverse prequel novels. Just a guess.
Best Alternate History Novel
.... Someone tell Lou Antonelli to hurry up and finish his sequel to Another Girl Another Planet already. Other than that...
Okay, I may have a good one for this soon, as soon as I hurry up and read Hans Schantz' Hidden Truth series-- more specifically, book 2, A Rambling Wreck. It came out at the early end of the eligibility deadline.
Best Media Tie-In Novel
Well, this is new. The category probably opened up as a good way to avoid having a flood of Star Wars or Star Trek books flood a category.
What I would like to happen is to nominate Timothy Zahn's Thrawn book. But Thrawn: Alliances is coming out on June 26th, which is hardly enough time for people to get it, read it, and vote. Hell, a lot of people are going to have already voted by then.
But now that we have a Media Tie-in category, can we have a best comic book movie now? That way it's not a Marvel Vs DC knock down drag out every year?
Best Horror Novel
As usual, I have nothing. The only horror I go near is what I write.
So, there's Good to the Last Drop. Again. Yes, sorry about that.
Now, I could argue that Good to the Last Drop is the culmination of the previous three novels, two of which were nominated for Dragon Awards. I've got demons, Vatican Ninjas, vampire hordes, shapeshifters, and anti-Vampire "civilians" (a collection of police, street gangs, and the Mafia, because welcome to New York, you bloodsucking bastards).
Personally, this might be more Urban Fantasy than horror, but the last two were in horror, so I guess no one at the Dragon Award committee objects.
Best Comic Book & Best Graphic Novel
I am so far behind on both of these categories, don't even ask me. I'm going to ask Jon del Arroz and Alfred Genesson if they could do some posts on this, that way I can link to them the next time this blog is updated.
Best Science Fiction or Fantasy TV Series, TV or Internet
The Orville. No, nothing else, just The Orville.
Lucifer has gotten better, but it wasn't as good as Orville at its best... At its worst? It's just mediocre. But those are only two episodes that made me wonder what was going on with Seth MacFarlane at the time.
Other eligible titles, but nothing I'm going to make a real fuss over.
The Defenders ... meh.
The Punisher I haven't seen it yet, and the reviews are so, so mixed.
Arrow ... The only DC show I'm still looking at, but I don't think it's earned it this year.
Best Science Fiction or Fantasy Movie
Justice League? Eh. No
The Last Jedi: Hell no.
Thor: Ragnarok ... maybe
Spider-Man: Homecoming ... not out of the realm of possibility.
Bright ...? I don't think was that good. It had some nice worldbuilding, and a lot of great little touches, but they could have cut 15 minutes from the film and missed nothing. In fact, they would have done so much better had they used that time to build up the story more.
Best Science Fiction or Fantasy PC / Console Game
This is a problem when you have so many games doing loot boxes that I have urges to just tell all of the games to go screw themselves.
Middle Earth: Shadow of War? Depends on who you ask.
X-Com 2: War of the Chosen -- ditto
Cuphead
Super Mario Oddessy.
There are, of course, Persona and Yakuza games that came out this year.... just don't ask me when. and Nier: Automata I've heard great things about, but it came out in January or February, and thus aren't eligible.
So, if you liked any of these, look up on the release date and make certain I didn't just suggest something that came out too early.
Best Science Fiction or Fantasy Mobile Game
Middle Earth: Shadow of War: Yes, I liked the mobile game. Move along.
Best Board Game & Best Miniatures / Collectible Card / Role-Playing Game
Another category I'm useless in. Calling Alfred is also more useful here than I am.
Anyway, the Dragons are coming. Knock yourself out.
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