Cheap Meat & ABNA

January 21st, 2008 by Niteblade

In case you weren’t aware, Amazon is holding a novel contest. It’s called the Amazon Breakthrough Novel Award and competition is fierce. It’s into the semi-finals now; 5,000 entries have been widdled down to 1,000 and now it’s the public’s turn to do some judging.

I highly recommend popping over to the ABNA page to take a look at all the rules, find out what you can win for offering your opinion on the semi-finalists, and start reviewing. That page has a link to all the categories novels fell into, including Science Fiction & Fantasy, so you could start there…or you could start here.

Cheap Meat by Ron Savage is a novel I think any Niteblade fan would enjoy — I don’t want to bias any opinions or anything, but go take a look, give a review and see if you can win some bling from Amazon.

Or don’t. I’ll love you either way :-p


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2008 Rhysling Nominations

January 18th, 2008 by Niteblade

I’ve just received confirmation that the nominations I sent in for the 2008 Rhysling Poetry Awards (for poems first published in 2007) have been received, so I now feel confident I didn’t screw up and can announce that on behalf of Niteblade I nominated two poems for Rhysling Awards.

First, in the short poem category I nominated The Night Silent by Christopher Hivner. I loved the quiet creepiness of this poem. It stole over my consciousness the same way the vines…Ah, I don’t want to ruin it for those of you who haven’t read it yet. **smile**

Secondly, in the long poem category I nominated The Spiders in the Sky by Richard Pitaniello. Though I am usually more a fan of short poetry than long, when I read The Spiders in the Sky it really spoke to me. I thoroughly enjoyed it in a way I can’t say about many long pieces.

Congratulations Richard and Christopher — and good luck.


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Preditors & Editors Poll

January 7th, 2008 by Niteblade

It’s time for the Preditors and Editors Poll. If you head on over to the poll here you can vote for your favorite novel, author, story, magazine, bookstore, editor, etc. etc. Niteblade and I are nominated in a couple categories, and if you feel like voting for us, great. If not, great. Really, I’m good either way. However, I would ask that everyone take a moment of time to go to the Cover Art poll here and vote for Marge Simon’s cover for the December issue of Niteblade.

Marge is a wonderful woman and a very talented artist who does all the covers and most of the story illustrations for Niteblade magazine for far less money than she deserves. Please help me show my thanks and appreciation by voting for her. You’ll have to enter your email address to vote but it will not be sold, stolen or spammed — it’s just to avoid ballot stuffing.

Again, the URL is http://www.critters.org/predpoll/zineart.shtml . Unfortunately when I nominated Marge I screwed up the first time so her name appears twice. Please vote for the one where the link actually works :) Thank you.


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