Gentleman Jole is a Goodreads Choice 2016 nominee
I am pleased to report that Gentleman Jole and the Red Queen is a Goodreads Choice Award nominee in the science fiction category this year.
The opening round of voting closes November 6th.
More info here:
https://www.goodreads.com/choiceaward...
and here
https://www.goodreads.com/choiceaward...
This award's pool-of-interest seems to have a nice non-overlap with some others, which is good for broadening attention for my genre/s. (Although I suppose awards, by their nature, are all about narrowing attention.) Still, if there are enough different ones, they add up to a pretty good panorama.
Ta, L.
PS -- I should also add, Baen's nice trade paperback edition of the book releases today:
https://www.amazon.com/Gentleman-Jole...
The opening round of voting closes November 6th.
More info here:
https://www.goodreads.com/choiceaward...
and here
https://www.goodreads.com/choiceaward...
This award's pool-of-interest seems to have a nice non-overlap with some others, which is good for broadening attention for my genre/s. (Although I suppose awards, by their nature, are all about narrowing attention.) Still, if there are enough different ones, they add up to a pretty good panorama.
Ta, L.
PS -- I should also add, Baen's nice trade paperback edition of the book releases today:
https://www.amazon.com/Gentleman-Jole...
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Nov 01, 2016 12:49PM
I love this book! Just re-read it again last week, as a matter of fact. Immediately went & voted for it; thanks for the heads-up.
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Now *this* is an election that doesn't depress me!
Congratulations!The only books on the list that I've read are yours and Death's End, two books that are completely unlike each other. I feel bad voting when I haven't read most of the works, but maybe that's just the nature of this particular award.
David wrote: "Congratulations!The only books on the list that I've read are yours and Death's End, two books that are completely unlike each other. I feel bad voting when I haven't read most of the works, but ..."
Yes, I suspect it may be more of a proxy measure of the size of each book's audience than anything else. But perhaps when they whittle it down to a final ballot some pattern will emerge.
Ta, L.
Just wondering ... why am I able to borrow the Audiobook from my library but not the ebook? The ebook is not even available for me to recommend as a purchase through my library. It's frustrating.Good luck on the award, and thank you!
Leigh
Leigh wrote: "Just wondering ... why am I able to borrow the Audiobook from my library but not the ebook? The ebook is not even available for me to recommend as a purchase through my library. It's frustrating...."
Baen has the e-rights to this title. Either Baen has not placed it in libraries, or your library has not purchased it. No idea which, although your librarian could probably say.
Blackstone is very big on getting their titles into libraries.
Ta, L.
Thank you for answering! It must be that Baen has not made the ebook available to libraries. My library has an option to recommend books for purchase, so if the book were available I could see it that way and recommend it.
The library has the audiobook -- but I like to READ.
I own the hardback, bought when it first came out, but foolishly lent it out and it hasn't come home.
Are you as the author able to influence the publisher to make your ebooks available to libraries?
Thank you again,
Leigh
Leigh wrote: "Thank you for answering! It must be that Baen has not made the ebook available to libraries. My library has an option to recommend books for purchase, so if the book were available I could see it... Are you as the author able to influence the publisher to make your ebooks available to libraries?"
Not really. That one's a business decision, based on each publisher's own calculation of what works for them.
Ta, L.
i nominated Penric and the Shaman also!
Lois wrote: "Leigh wrote: "Thank you for answering! It must be that Baen has not made the ebook available to libraries. My library has an option to recommend books for purchase, so if the book were available ..."
Ah, so. I should lobby Baen then. :)
Leigh wrote: "Lois wrote: "Leigh wrote: "Thank you for answering! Ah, so. I should lobby Baen then. :) ..."
Only for the last few VK titles. The earlier backlist VK e-rights have reverted to me, and so far I haven't been able to persuade my e-people to experiment with library placements.
We're all feeling our way forward, here.
(I believe HarperCollins has their e-books of mine up in libraries, however. I see they do in my country library. But HC has whole departments of minions to attend to such things.)
Ta, L.
Minions!!! One of My Favorite Things.I'll keep my eyes open.
I too voted the minute I got the email from Goodreads. Good luck.
And it's in the semis ... go vote again!
B. Ross wrote: "And it's in the semis ... go vote again!"I just did *fingers crossed that she wins*
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