Saturday night, ABINADI won the Whitney Award for Best Historical. This is me during my "acceptance speech." I had read all of the books that I was up against and loved them all. I wouldn't have been surprised if any one of them won. But I was surprised when it was my book that won. I told the audience that when my 14-year old son read it, he was mad. "Why did you have to kill off the main character at the end?" he asked. I told him that's what happened in the scriptures. He said, "So? You could have changed it since you made everything else up."
A newsrelease about the winners appeared in the Mormon Times yesterday.
And a liveblog of the award ceremony can be read here.
Below: Stephanie Black (Whitney Winner), me, and Karlene Browning (Provident Book manager)
Me with the podcasting ladies of LDS Women's Book Review (Hi Shanda, Sheila & Hillary)
Me with fans and friends!
A huge congrats to the other 2008 Whitney Award winners:
James Dashner in YA: The 13th Reality, Journal of Curious Letters
Brandon Sanderson in Speculative: Mistborn: The Hero of Ages (book 3)
Stephanie Black in Mystery/Suspense: Fool Me Twice
Annette Haws in General: Waiting for the Light to Change
Aubrey Mace in Romance: Spare Change
Sandra Grey in Best Novel: Traitor
Angela Hallstron in Best Novel by New Author: Bound on Earth
Lifetime Achievement: Kerry Blair & Orson Scott Card
15 comments:
Yay! Congratulations! I was really hoping that you would win. I'm sorry I didn't get a chance to talk to you at the conference, but I still had a great time there and learned a ton.
Congratulations, Heather! I'm so excited for you.
Thanks, Kellie! Next year we'll have to make time. Thanks, Annette and Maria!
Go Heather! Go Heather! Congrats!
I was so dang stoked; you are now the one and only double Whitney winner! Big congrats on a well-deserved award. And I loved hanging with you all weekend.
Congratulations, Heather! I'm not surprised you won, I loved reading "Abinidi"!
Congrats, Heather! That's really great.
Contratulations. I'm glad to hear that you won. I also appreciated all I learned in the Online Marketing panel discussion you moderated earlier that day. Thanks for all your hard work.
Great job! Congratulations for a well deserved award!
Congratulations!!!
Congratulations, Heather!! Well deserved win. And thanks for everything this weekend!
You so deserved to win the award. It was so great to finally meet you. Please come and podcast with us any time!
Thanks, everyone.
Yes, Sheila, I'd love to do the podcast.
Congratulations!!!! It was well deserved and I am excited for you!
A well deserved honour!
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