Vote for Bordertown! due Feb. 15th

[ellenkushner]

'Tis the Season for all the 2011 Award Nominations - and we* are just thrilled to find ourselves up for these, for our revival of the classic Bordertown series - for a new audience.  If you could possibly spare a few moments, your vote could count a lot:

• Teenreads.com, in association with the Children’s Book Council (CBC) and Every Child a Reader (ECAR) has announced their 2012 Teen Choice Book of the Year Nominees – and we’re nominated! Voting closes on February 15. The 5 titles that receive the most votes will serve as finalists for the CBC’s 2012 Teen Choice Book of the Year. So please head over here and vote your faves - we hope Welcome to Bordertown will be one of them!

• Welcome to Bordertown made the Locus Online Recommended Reading List under Best Anthology!  Which should be enough for anyone - but it also puts us on the docket for the Locus Awards Ballot.  You don't need to be a Locus subscriber to vote: 
http://www.locusmag.com/Magazine/2012/PollAndSurvey.html

The fine thing about all this is that the ballots are broad - you have a chance to see and vote for lots of other nominees in many other categories (coughcough like Delia Sherman's The Freedom Maze in Locus' Best Young Adult Books)  - and to get recommendations for fabulous stuff you may even not have read!

*That would be my co-editor, Holly Black ( blackholly ), B'town series creator (and my co-author on the title story) Terri Windling, and the whole collection of Authors for Welcome to Bordertown!  Plus our husbands, wives, and dogs. And cats. The cats are thrilled, too; they're just better at hiding it.

Comments

[rojomojo.livejournal.com]

the worst part about this is it reminds me I read way too little. Instead of knowing maybe 40 books on these lists, my travel schedule and nonfiction and technical reading means I only know 5-10 of these books.

rojo

[ellen-kushner.livejournal.com]

I know, I know . . . but at least we can have the lists!

[jen-sous-chef.livejournal.com]

Thanks, Ellen! I'm including these links in my YA bookstore newsletter. Good luck to Bordertown!

[ellen-kushner.livejournal.com]

How lovely! Which bookstore?

[jen-sous-chef.livejournal.com]

The Big Blue Marble. Sorry; I was going to sign that post. Also, I now see that my comment itself was misleading: I should have said "in the bookstore's YA newsletter". Or possibly, to be even clearer, "in the Big Blue Marble's YA newsletter". :-)
- Jen Sheffield

[ellen-kushner.livejournal.com]

Oh - it's *you*! Excellent. Thanks!