Woot! and double woot!

[desperance]

It's not often there's good news - or, indeed, any news - in the inbox first thing of a morning. The usual process is just deleting spam and then finding the poor thing empty of impact.

This morning, nay: two pieces that matter, hurrah!

The first is that m'friend'n'colleague Ann Cleeves has won the Duncan Lawrie Dagger for best crime novel of the year, with her novel 'Raven Black'. We are extremely pleased about this, for all kinds of reasons, the very least of which is the slightly selfish consideration that it might raise the profile of Murder Squad a little.

And the second is that the opening section of my novella 'Nothing Broken' has been accepted for publication in the highly respected e-zine Blithe Quarterly. Whose motto is "Queer fiction lives here", so I guess you can see where they're coming from. Again, this makes me happy in a number of different ways, not at all the least of which is my infiltrating what is emphatically a genre piece into what is emphatically a literary magazine. Snortle.

Comments

[samarcand.livejournal.com]

That's marvellous and wonderful on both counts! Congratulations to Ann and also big congrats to you. It is through the stealthy work of people like yourself that we shall infiltrate the literary world...

[devonellington.livejournal.com]

Chaz, both pieces of news are wonderful! Please give Ann my best - although I don't know if she'd remember me.

And congrats on the story!

[fastfwd.livejournal.com]

You go, Big Guy!

My congratulations also to Ann, who doesn't know me and vice versa. But what the hell, good news is good news.

[synedrian.livejournal.com]

Here's to awards and acceptances :)