Hear ye, hear ye! The Silmaril Awards… the longest running fantasy book character awards show… is back for its eleventh year in a row, and I am sure that this year will be the best yet!

11 years!

How is it possible that we have been doing this for eleven years?!

But wait! Some of you are new, and you are wondering, “What are the Silmaril Awards?”

The Silmaril Awards were dreamed up by our very own D.J. Edwardson, who many and sundry years ago (11, to be exact) brought forth upon the interwebs, a new notion: that readers of fantasy books should have an outlet for naming their favorite characters in a grand forum.

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Hey there, friends!

I’m at Realm Makers this weekend, but I wanted to pop over and let you know about a fun giveaway an author friend of mine is running this weekend as well.

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I’m so excited to be helping out with the cover reveal and Kickstarter announcement for this book!

Some of you may remember that Grant and I had Philip Wilder over for an interview on our podcast several months ago. If you haven’t seen that episode, I highly recommend you check it out, we had such a blast chatting with Philip.

Anyway, we were talking about his first novel, Jake Rogers’ Planet, which I have now listened to in audiobook form TWICE (yes, it’s that good) once on my own, and once with my kids, who all loved it as well.

So I am just thrilled to pieces to hear that a sequel to that book is coming soon!

Wanna see the cover?

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Whew! It’s been a hot minute since I graced the blog with my presence!

I’m so sorry I’ve been so silent here for the past… 2 months! Spring has just become one of the busiest times of the year for me, and trying to release the last book in the Turrim Archive in the middle of all that just wiped me out.

Life just keeps moving forward, and so does time, and here we are in June!

I would love to say that I’m going to try to be more faithful to write posts, but I fear that would just be setting me up for failure and you all for disappointment. I still love blogging and I have all these ideas, I just don’t ever seem to have the time. As my kids get older, I am more and more involved in all of their activities, and what little time I have left over to myself, I actually want to spend it writing books. So the blog may continue to be silent for a while as I work my way through these sweet, busy, eventful years.

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