Requiem just won an award!!

I’m jazzed. I’m excited. Requiem for the Author of Frankenstein just won an award. It was given the Historical Fiction Award by the Independent Book Publishing Professional Group, for their Next Generation Indie Book Awards, 2008/09. That’s so wonderful! And, according to their website, the award means my book will be looked at by a New York agent:

To help indie publishers and authors make important connections, the winning books will be reviewed by New York literary agent Marilyn Allen of Allen O’Shea Literary Agency for possible representation to publishers or one of Ms. Allen’s co-agents for possible representation in areas such as distribution, foreign rights, film rights, and other rights.

That’s just such great news!!

Here’s the link    Scroll down to the Historical Fiction category.

More News:

I was at the BEA (BookExpo America) in Los Angeles at the convention center this past week and did a book signing there. I don’t know if people knew about the award, but I had a big line of book sellers, librarians and media in line for a signed copy. I signed fifty books in my brief half hour. The way the process is set up, thirty people sign at a time and people line up to get books. It reminded me of being at the airport, lots of roped off alleyways leading to the authors. It was pretty overwhelming, apparently about 35,000 people showed up to the BEA. The convention center is huge. I spent most of the time wishing the place was smaller, and wondering where I was. But, it was a real taste of the industry and I did accomplish a few good things.

Oh, and one other tidbit of good news, the Sacramento Airport bookstore is carrying my book, displaying it face out. So, fly out of Sacramento!! It would be a great read on a long plane flight, really, especially on your way to England or Italy….

I’m giddy.