Delicious homebaked Armageddon
Here at Favorite Thing Ever we make a point of being wildly partial. These aren’t balanced, measured, (dare I say tepid?) “I like this, but must concede that it has a few flaws… yawneroo!” reviews.
No, here we specialize in “OMG, I love this!” squeefests.
In fact, we are so full-on hardcore totally partial that my Fave Peeps Ever have been after me to prove it by writing up an entry on my own novel, Indigo Springs
So, first things first: OMG, squee, I love this! It’s my first novel, how can I not love it? It’s about to be a year old. Time to stick one small candle in a jelly roll, and sing the Arrogant Worms birthday song.
My charming immodesty aside, why might you love my book?
Maybe urban fantasy is your kinda thing: Indigo Springs
Maybe you’ve just never liked Oregon much: Maybe you find Oregonians smug. They’ve got the City of Portland, the authors of Green
It has Sex! Also Violence! Romance! Betrayal! Weird Magic! Massively mutated mystically contaminated wildlife! The Inquisition! (Didn’t expect that, did you?) There’s also a heroic Postal Carrier of indeterminate gender, and an Eco-terrorist cult.
The first taste is free: The spoilery sex scene is available as a six minute reading on my website.
Last but not at all least: a few days after I wrote this entry and sent it to my Fave Peeps, I found out the book had won the Sunburst Award for Canadian Literature of the Fantastic. So I can confidently say that, at least for 2009, it’s the jury’s fave thing too!
But wait, there’s more factor!: If you enjoy it, you only have to wait a year for BLUE MAGIC, the sequel which will be out in 2011.
You have a limited amount of time, so why spend it reading about things that suck or are only kind of okay? Favorite thing EVER is not a review site. We're unrepentant fans, and this is the stuff we love. Hope you like gushing, because we're about to embarrass ourselves.
Woo! Having already read Indigo Springs, I am making grabby hands for Blue Magic. I don’t suppose we could get advanced copies? ::Bambi eyes::
There are no advance copies yet, honey, and I haven’t even made editorial revisions. But I’ll keep you posted.
Congrats on the Sunburst win! You are the most Fantastic Canadian thing! So says Canada!
Favorite Canadian Ever? Fantastic Canadian Ever? Mmmm. Thanks, Matt.
Congratulations to you! I remain unspeakably bitter to be excluded from the contest to win this novel.
UNSPEAKABLY. Except I totally just spoke it.
I fully expect to get an entry in the Native Star contest from somebody named “Vodka.”
Heh–I was just going to point out the Native Star contest was still open.
Melodie, all I can tell you is there are copies in libraries, and that the MM paperback will be out soon.
Whooohooo! Yeah! Award winning book, whoopee!!
Wheee! Probably too late to splash “Award Winning, HAHAHAHAHA!! all over the MM paperback cover, eh?
Woohoo indeed. Great book and two other reasons you might love it, really real characters and goodly good writing.
Thank you,Clélie–that’s especially nice to hear because I admire your taste.
Maybe it’s my natural Oregonian smugness coming through, but Mount Saint Helens is in Washington. *g*
Anyway, this book goes on my to-read list. Thanks for the squee!
OMG, is it really? But it’s on the road to Portland. I would feel stupid now if I wasn’t so incredibly smug about other things.