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I entered 22 Dutch Road<\/em> into some internet contests and heard back from the first one yesterday. The novel was one of seven finalists for the \u201chorror\u201d category for the 2020 International Author Network (IAN) Book of the Year Awards. Yea me! Now I didn\u2019t win, and I don\u2019t know if I was in the top 7 of 1000 entries, or say, 7 out of 7 entries, so it may not be that special. Anyway, IAN did give me a cute medallion thingy as below. Am waiting to hear on some other contests, most of which don\u2019t announce until Spring 2021. In the meantime, I\u2019ll keep working on The Evil Men\u2019s Book Club<\/em>.<\/p>\n

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I entered 22 Dutch Road into some internet contests and heard back from the first one yesterday. The novel was one of seven finalists for the \u201chorror\u201d category for the 2020 International Author Network (IAN) Book of the Year Awards. Yea me! 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