This has been such a tough year for Australian bookstores, hit by the covid lockdown and economic recession. And still they do their best to promote local authors, including hand selling our books. So I was already immensely grateful to them all. And now I’m even more grateful; Silver is shortlisted for the Booksellers’ Choice for best adult fiction. And in such wonderful company. Australia has such a strong literary… Read More »Booksellers’ shortlist!
So Silver didn’t win the ABIA general fiction award – that went to Bruny by the wonderful Heather Rose (we share the same publishers) – a thoroughly deserving winner. Bruny is a great read, part thriller, part family saga, part political satire. Now Silver has been longlisted for the Australian Booksellers’ Association’s Booksellers’ Choice Award for adult fiction book of the year. As you can see, it’s again among some… Read More »Love Your Book Shop…
I’m so happy that Silver has made the shortlist for the ABIAs – the Australian Book Industry Awards. It’s the General Fiction category. It’s quite the honour, given the quality of the other books shortlisted, and given those on the longlist. The only disappointment is that there won’t be an awards ceremony this year, especially as I know Dervla, Michael and Heather and we could have had quite the party!… Read More »And the shortlist!
Some excellent news from the United States: Scrublands has been shortlisted for a prestigious Barry Award for the Best First Mystery/Crime novel. The winner will be announced in October at the Bourchercon World Mystery Convention to be held in Sacramento. Huge thanks to US publisher Atria for giving Scrublands such great support.