The Guardian Self Published Book of the Month

The Guardian Self Published Book of the Month competition has run for one month!

http://www.theguardian.com/books/2014...

I didn't win :(

I have had contact with the Andrew Lownie agency, I wonder if that was a factor? It's very hard to say really, how many entries were there? Was I short-listed? What was the general quality of the submissions like?

The Guardian haven't given much information save the title and author of the book they've chosen. Their choice does sound funny, but I tried to read 'The Brentford Trilogy' by Rankin and couldn't get past book 2.

I wish they'd shared a little more information about the rest of the entries and their judging process. Interestingly in the US the book is not ranking well at all. In the UK, winning this award seems to have given it a big boost!

My entry for April was The Last Dragon Slayer

I have my book 2 The Verkreath Horror in as a May entry, but given the nature of the book they've chosen - I can't help but feel they aren't looking for high fantasy with an atheist, pragmatist theme.