Award Finalist: Global Book Awards

I just learned that All Creatures Weird and Dangerous is an Award Finalist in the “Occult and Supernatural” category of the Global Book Awards!

This is exciting!

Writing a book is such a wild experience. You write it at home (sometimes in your car) in your spare time. You ask your devoted partner to read and edit, your kid to draw, and revise the heck out of this manuscript. You send it all out into the world to get rejected or just blown off until you find the right reader at the right publisher (Thanks Guernica!). Then you wait. Then you do everything you can to get it out into the world and now all of your writing is about bringing this book to readers—visiting bookstores, visiting organizers of book clubs, wheeling and dealing. You get an occasional review (Thanks Ottawa Review of Books!), but it’s the connection of friends and the constant emailing, visiting, calling that sell the books.

And then something like this happens! Our book is acknowledged as good! Award worthy!

It’s a good day in Buffalo! and on top of everything, the sun is out!