Geek Confessional: An Honor to be Nominated

  1. Geek Confessional: I’ve got (a lot of) game
  2. Geek Confessional: I’ve written for Deep Space Nine, Lois & Clark, and The X-Files (sort of)
  3. Geek Confessional Update: I have the scripts!
  4. Geek Confessional: I once gave a wedding toast in Klingon
  5. Geek Confessional: The Hair
  6. Geek Confessional: I Have a Dream, Disney!
  7. Geek Confessional: I did the fanfic thing
  8. Geek Confessional: I’m a Gilmore Guy
  9. Geek Confessional: Fus Roh Uh-Oh
  10. Geek Confessional: I was brainwashed by Jar Jar Binks
  11. Geek Confessional: I’m a professional wrestling fan
  12. Geek Confessional: I wrote storylines for two wrestling companies (sort of)
  13. Geek Confessional: My First Screenplay
  14. Geek Confessional: My Second Screenplay
  15. Geek Confessional: My Third (and final) Screenplay
  16. Geek Confessional: I’m a Found Footage Junkie
  17. Geek Confessional: I’ve Never Played Dungeons and Dragons
  18. Geek Confessional: I didn’t read C.S. Lewis until I was an adult
  19. Geek Confessional: I’ve only been to one comic book convention
  20. Geek Confessional: I tried writing for dinner theatre
  21. Geek Confessional: My first “book” was a poorly drawn comic series
  22. Geek Confessional: My “second book” was a horrible YA adventure
  23. Geek Confessional: My High School Manuscripts
  24. Geek Confessional: My First Christian Fiction
  25. Geek Confessional: The Return of the Christian Fiction
  26. Geek Confessional: When Dreams Die Hard
  27. Geek Confessional: When the Time Comes to Stop
  28. Geek Confessional: When It All Goes Off the Rails
  29. Geek Confessional: A Super Conference
  30. Geek Confessional: When One Becomes “Three”
  31. Geek Confessional: Time to Get Numb Again
  32. Geek Confessional: An Honor to be Nominated
  33. Geek Confessional: The Ironic Origins of The Hive
  34. Geek Confessional: An Authorial Bucket List

Okay, so it’s been a while since I’ve been in the Confessional. The tail end of Lent can be a bit busy time for pastor-type people. But now that we’re past Easter, I think it’s time to start wrapping this series up. We’ve got a few more entries to go.

But to understand where The Hive came from and got into print, we need to talk about what it’s like to be nominated for a major award.

Four of my books have been nominated for awards. The first three were finalists for the Christy Award. For those of you who don’t know what that is, it’s one of the most prestigious awards in Christian publishing. It’s kind of a big deal. So when my debut novel, Failstate, was named as a finalist in 2013, it came as something of a shock. I even bought a new suit and flew down to St. Louis for the awards ceremony:

One of the best parts of the ceremony was hanging out with my agent.

Unfortunately, Failstate didn’t win. I had an acceptance speech all ready but it we never used.

Two more of my books were finalists for Christy Awards. Numb was nominated in 2014, and Failstate: Nemesis was up in 2015.  In the last two cases, I didn’t win either. And you know what, it’s all good. The chances of one of my books actually winning was slim. I was up against some tough competition and so it was good.

Now The Hive actually won an award in 2016, the Genre Award:

But I”m getting ahead of myself. Before we get to winning awards, we need to talk about where The Hive came from. But that’s for next time.

 

2 Comments:

  1. Awesome info, Writer Bro! It is an ongoing passion and continuous work to even get the book “out there’ let alone be nominated for any awards, so I’m really proud of you even though you didn’t win! I just got my first iPhone last night…yep, I am now officially part of the 21st century! *LOL* You’d think as a webpage designer I’d had one long ago, but even though my IT Tech Hubby and I use technology, we are not driven by it. I have to say getting to have a Face Time call with him today for the first time was WAY COOL! I have the PayPalHere App now so I’ll be able to take credit card sales at the Dayton Book Expo on the 29th. Can’t wait to hear more about HIVE next time! LUV YA BUNCHES IN JESUS WITH HUGS, HOPE, & HAPPY TCK HOPS! Tonja Condray Klein ^__~ http://www.eirinth.com

  2. Congratulations for the award. By the way, out of the five books you’ve written, you won the award for my least favorite of the five! (If I remember correctly, your first two Failstate books were in the top three of my favorites I read in 2015, and Nemesis and Numb were in the same slots in 2016, with Hive being I believe #6 in 2016 (out of 24 books total). (And no, the unnominated book wasn’t my favorite – Nemesis would have that honor.)

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