Benjamin Franklin Award

[susanstinson]

Venus of Chalk is a finalist in the gay/lesbian category. Yay!

• This is an award to "recognize excellence in independent publishing": a small press award.


• Judy Frank's book Crybaby Butch is nominated, too, so Fireband Books are two out of the three finalists. The other one is a book published by the American Bar Associaton.


• There's an award ceremony on June 1 at a Marriot in NYC and the Lambda awards are on June 2. Ceremonial city.


• My first novel, Fat Girl Dances with Rocks, was a finalist in this category, too. My second novel, Martha Moody, won in the fiction category. There were silver stickers for finalist that my publisher put on FGDWR, and gold stickers for Martha Moody, but I was shy about them, and asked the publisher to stop putting them on my books, so, while you may see copies of FGDWR with the silver sticker, you won't see any of Martha Moody with the gold.


• I'm not shy quite like that any more.


• Books published by Readers' Digest have nominations in various categories.
Longtime readers here may remember my childhood devotion to Readers' Digest Condensed Books, but do they really count as "excellence in independent publishing?" There's a sprinkling of audio books from the BBC and Penguin, and a Random House finalist, but eight from Readers' Digest?

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Thanks!