So I returned home from RadCon (which was a fantastic weekend and you should’ve totally been there) to discover Enter the Janitor has been listed as a Finalist for the Compton Crook Award!
The Baltimore Science Fiction Society, Inc. (BSFS) created the Compton Crook Award in 1982 to honor the best first novel of the year written by an individual author in the Science Fiction/Fantasy/Horror genre. Since its inception, the award has been presented at Balticon — the four-day annual Maryland regional science fiction convention produced by BSFS, currently held on Memorial Day weekend in the Baltimore, MD area.
Owl and the Japanese Circus By Kristie Charish, Published by Gallery Books (Canadian Origin edition), Released 1/13/15
The Thorn of Dentonhill: A Novel of Maradaine By Marshall Ryan Maresca, Published by DAW, Released 2/3/15
It’s even more delightful to know that author friends and peers like Cat Rambo and Fran Wilde are on here as well, plus see books I’ve greatly enjoyed reading, such as Ferrett Steinmetz’s Flex. Congrats and good luck to everyone!
I have read a lot of urban fantasy--120 books, according to my tags--and it's very difficult to describe works in the genre as innovative and fresh... Josh Vogt, however, has created something incredibly unique in his Cleaners series.~Beth Cato, author of The Clockwork Dagger series