Michael O'Brien's "Theophilos: A Novel" is a Lily Award finalist

From CatholicWritersGuild.org:

The Catholic Writers Guild has announced the finalists for the first Catholic Arts and Letters Awards (CALA), also known as the "Lily Awards."

The presentation of the Lily Awards will take place at a special breakfast during Catholic Marketing Network's (CMN) annual retail trade show, which is held in conjunction with the Catholic Writers Conference LIVE August 3-5, 2011 in Valley Forge, PA. The conference is cosponsored by the Catholic Writers Guild.

The Lily Awards finalists are:

For adult fiction:
Murder in the Vatican: The Church Mysteries of Sherlock Holmes by Ann Margaret Lewis
Rachel's Contrition by Michelle Buckman
Theophilos by Michael O'Brien

For children's fiction/YA:
Alex O'Donnell and the 40 Cyberthieves by Regina Doman
Hiding the Stranger  by Joan Kelly
Tristan's Travels  by Karl Bjorn Erickson

The award winners will be announced at the CMN Trade Show Breakfast during the Catholic Writers Conference LIVE, Thursday morning August 4th at the Radisson Valley Forge Convention Center in Valley Forge, Pennsylvania. The breakfast begins at 7:15am.

Congratulations to all of the finalists. I'll link to the results tomorrow!

For more about Michael O'Brien's novel, Theophilos (also available as an e-book), see this Ignatius Insight interview: