The Whitney Awards!
What are the Whitneys?
“The Whitneys are an awards program for novels by LDS authors. Elder Orson F. Whitney, an early apostle in the LDS church, prophesied “We will yet have Miltons and Shakespeares of our own.” Since we have that as our goal, we feel that we should also honor those authors who excel and continually raise the bar.
The Whitney Awards honor novels in the following categories: General Fiction, Romance, Suspense/Mystery, Speculative Fiction, Youth Fiction, Historical, Best Novel of the Year, and Best Novel by a New Author. Novels can be nominated by any reader (via this website or by mail), and nominees are voted on by an academy of industry professionals, including authors, publishers, bookstore owners, distributors, critics, and others.
The awards were founded in 2007 and operate as an semi-autonomous subsidiary of LDStorymakers.” – WhitneyAwards.com
The Finalist Are…
General
Romance
Historical
Mystery/Suspense
Speculative
Youth Fiction – Speculative
Youth Fiction – General
New Hunger Games TV Spot
For those of you that are as excited as me for the March release of The Hunger Games… here is a new TV spot that was just released for our viewing please. Enjoy!
I really want to read Daughter of Helaman. I’ve heard it’s good! I still need to read some Jessica Day George.