My book and two novellas have been nominated for AtomaCon’s 2022 Palmetto Scribe Awards. The Palmetto Scribe Awards celebrates SC based authors who had works published in 2021. If you feel so inclined, please vote! Voting will end April 1st and the 5 finalists from each category will be voted on at AtomaCon May 13-15, 2022. Congratulations to everyone who was nominated.
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NOMINATIONS:
NOVELS/NOVELLAS
Voidbreaker by David Dalglish,Orbit
O.Z. Doesn’t Diggs G.C.C. at Emerald City by Ron Baxley, Jr. YBR Publishing
Governor by David Weber/Richard Fox, Baen.
TRUE DEAD by Faith Hunter, Penguin
The Royal Nothings by Drew Bailey, Falstaff Books.
Dr. Watson & the Ladies’ Club Coven by Alexandra Christian, Falstaff Books.
Wolfheart by Jason Gilbert , Falstaff Books
The Watchers at War by Barbara V Evers, New Mythology Press
Shedding the Past by Alex Rath, Theogony Books
TheWatchers in Exile by Barbara V Evers, New Mythology Press
Discarded Dragons by Jennifer M Zeiger,Zeiger Adventure Publishing.
A Theft Most Fowl: A Kingdom of Aves Mystery by Nicole Kurtz, Mocha Memoirs Press
The Devil Makes Three, Lucy Blue, Falstaff Books
Into the Light (Out of the Dark Book 2) David Weber/Chris Kennedy, Tor Books
SHORT STORIES:
Bound into Darkness by Faith Hunter from Dirty Deeds, Pen & Page Publishing
The Ties That Bind by Faith Hunter from Dirty Deeds, Pen and Page Publishing
A Meeting in the Woods, by Nicole Kurtz from Girls of Magic and Might Anthology, Diverse Books
AMIRI, by Nicole Givens Kurtz from Startling Stories Magazine 2021, Wildside Press
Dogwood Stories by Nicole Givens Kurtz from Apex Magazine 127
We are in the middle of a cold snap in the southeast and the weather peeps are predicting snow, and / or ice, and / or freezing rain, and / or just rain. I live sort of equidistant between the mountains and the ocean, and the mountains block systems moving west to east, so we never know what it means our temps will be, and with snow, five degrees makes a huge difference. So, the grocery store shelves are bare, there are long lines for gasoline, and people who haven’t seen bad weather for 4 years and then probably 3 years before that are hunkering down to survive through thirty-six hours of terror and longer days of being without power, should the *ice storm* fall upon us and the power go down. The South does not have the numbers of road clearing machines the north does. That would be a huge waste of tax dollars to invest in machines that would sit there and not get used. So we have machines for the main thoroughfares. And that’s it. My road (because I’m not in any city or town) is never cleared. Like never. Ever.
However, we have an RV with a generator and a propane stove (and a new mattress topper, yay!) and we’ll be fine. Today, forty-eight hours before the storm, I am starting chicken soup by boning a roasted chicken and making broth from its bones with my wine-bone-stock recipe, and when the stock is ready, I’ll remove the bones, add in some (currently frozen) roux, and toss in whatever I have on hand in the kitchen. All the herbs and spices that seem interesting together. I’ll dice up the meat from the roasted chicken and add it. I’ll also dice a few carrots, six small red potatoes, bella mushrooms, and toss in some frozen lima beans, a can of red beans, and whatever in the pantry catches my attention. After it’s mostly cooked, I’ll add some left over sticky rice, and maybe some dried pasta. It will be lovely.
That’s all I got!
Be safe,
Faith