{"id":1792,"date":"2012-10-26T13:48:00","date_gmt":"2012-10-26T13:48:00","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/jennytrout.wordpress.com\/2012\/10\/26\/witty-title-im-too-flabbergasted-to-come-up-with"},"modified":"2012-10-26T13:48:00","modified_gmt":"2012-10-26T13:48:00","slug":"witty-title-im-too-flabbergasted-to-come-up-with","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/jennytrout.com\/?p=1792","title":{"rendered":"[witty title I’m too flabbergasted to come up with]"},"content":{"rendered":"

You may recall that in August, while attending the amazing\u00a0Authors After Dark conference<\/a>\u00a0in New Orleans, I attended the Bookie awards ceremony and won a couple of awards:<\/p>\n

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And promptly photographed them in the shower.<\/i><\/span><\/div>\n

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I was nominated for a bunch of stuff. I kind of wish I had kept track of what I had been nominated for. But I heard my name like five times, and two of those were when I was winning. I won GLBT Novel of the year for Striped<\/i>\u00a0(my gay weretiger light BDSM three-way that is available\u00a0here<\/a>) and Steampunk Short Story of the year for Sex, Lies and Inventions <\/i>(which features a middle-aged inventor hero who may or may not be the byproduct of Steampunk sex fantasies about James May and which is also available\u00a0here<\/a>).<\/div>\n
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Winning those Bookies was a really great feeling, but I was fairly confident I wouldn’t be hearing my name at any award ceremonies in the future. Not because I’m down on myself or my work, but because I recognize that not everyone can will all the awards. So imagine my surprise when I wound up with five nominations again this year, in the categories of:<\/div>\n
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