Quel Bummer!

Quel bummer! (as we who are to be published in French say) ---

I just saw the short list for the SIBA awards and OLD WOUNDS is not on it.

I can't help being a tad disappointed, even though I was amazed to find myself a nominee in the first place. And, of course, I still feel honored to be in the company of etc . . .

So, c'est la vie and congratulations to the finalists!


Here's the short list --

FICTION
1.Coal Black Horse by Robert Olmstead (Algonquin)2. Down River by John Hart (Thomas Dunne)3. Garden Spells by Sara Addison Allen (Bantam)4. Rhett Butler’s People by Donald McCaig (St. Martin’s Press)5. Thistle & Twigg by Mary Saums (St. Martin’s Minotaur)

(Exit, humming "My Day Will Come.")