Gaylactic Spectrum Best Novel Award of 2017

[hrj]

This one is worth repeating in full from my Alpennia blog.

Those of you who follow me on Twitter or Facebook got the first informal initial squee on this last weekend, but now the official annoucement is up at the Gaylactic Spectrum Award website, naming Mother of Souls Best Novel for 2017. I can't express how very happy this makes me, putting Alpennia on a list filled with authors like Melissa Scott, Elizabeth Bear, Ginn Hale, Laurie J. Marks, Nalo Hopkinson, and David Gerrold. The Gaylactic Spectrum Awards are given for science fiction and fantasy works with strong positive queer content. Both Daughter of Mystery and The Mystic Marriage were finalists for the award, and I have to say that the quality of the competition is such that I would have been perfectly proud to continue making that finalist list. So I'm over the moon to have Mother of Souls recognized in this way.

Comments

[life_of_glamour]

That’s fantastic! Congratulations!

[hrj]

I'm feeling really really good about it. This is one award where I truly have felt honored just to be a finalist (which the last two books were). Being chosen as the winner is amazing.

[m_nivalis]

Congratulations!

[rosefox]

Wow! Congratulations!

[ursula]

Yay! Congratulations!

[hudebnik]

W00t! Congratulations!

[oracne]

Woo!!! Congratulations!!!

Yay!!!!

[kareina]

This really is delightful news. It is no surprise to me that others like the book as much as I do. Well done!

[green_knight]

Squee!

That's marvellous news, and illustrious company!

[mdlbear]

Wow! Congrats!!

[lferion]

That is so awesome! YAY!!!!

And very, very well deserved.

[madbaker]

Congratulations!

[hrj]

Thank you! I'm incredibly proud.

[hrj]

Thanks! I know that awards are a crapshoot because not every worthy book can win an award, but I have to say it's nice for that particular one to have a hope of a bit more visibility, given the unfortunate circumstances of its release. (The week before the 2016 election.)

[hrj]

Thanks!

[hrj]

Thank you! So exciting!

[hrj]

Thanks!

Re: Yay!!!!

[hrj]

Thank you! And thanks for all your ongoing support!

[hrj]

Indeed! I have to say that it's nice to win an award where I honestly *would* be proud simply to be a finalist.

[hrj]

Thanks!

[hrj]

Thank you! And it's wonderful company to be in!

[hrj]

Thanks!

[trystbat]

Totally awesome!

[hawkwing_lb]

Woot! Congratulations and well-deserved!

[threadwalker]

Congratulations. This is fantastic.

[hairmonger]

Over the moon is just not strong enough to express my delight. "Spinning around the rings of Saturn" is more like it. (They're just more festive than the moon.)

Mary Anne in Kentucky

[ricardienne]

Congratulations!

[hrj]

Yes, isn't it! Thanks!

[hrj]

Thank you! And thanks for all your continuing appreciation for my writing. It means a lot.

[hrj]

And absolutely perfect to get it as a birthday present!

[hrj]

Thanks!

[hrj]

Indeed!

[auroracloud]

Congratulations! I'm so happy that your book got such a recognition! I haven't yet read Mother of Souls (I own it, but I'm saving it for a little while longer) but I really love your books and they totally deserve recognition! :-)

[hawkwing_lb]

:D

[hrj]

Thank you! I hope you'll enjoy the book. I keep doing this thing where I'm not always aligned with the genre people are expecting, so I always hold my breath a little and hope people will read the books for what they are.