Comments on: The Whitney Awards, Irreantum submissions and an Angolan artist

By: Katya

Katya — Thu, 09 Feb 2012 02:15:20 +0000

Much obliged.

By: Wm

Wm — Wed, 08 Feb 2012 19:13:45 +0000

Their site is set up weird. I found it by clicking on “Glimpses”: http://www.mormonartistsgroup.com/Mormon_Artists_Group/Hildebrando_de_Melo.html

By: Katya

Katya — Wed, 08 Feb 2012 19:03:12 +0000

Wm, do you know if the de Melo interview is still available? (I can’t find it on the site.)

By: Th.

Th. — Tue, 16 Feb 2010 20:20:18 +0000

I think the one safe thing to say about TA&THw is that it’s a polarizing book.

By: Annette Lyon

Annette Lyon — Tue, 16 Feb 2010 15:33:10 +0000

William, I personally really enjoyed Hotel and Gravity–I think you’re in for a treat with both. I, too, was totally surprised that Actor & the Housewife wasn’t a finalist.

Over 2009, I made a point of targeting books that I thought might be finalists, and while I didn’t guess right all the time (I expected Farworld: Landkeep, among others, to be there), I guessed well enough that I have only 11 books to read before the academy ballots are due.

The only real problem: Several are tomes, like Lund’s and Vandagriff’s. I’ll have my nose in a book a LOT over the next while!

By: Wm Morris

Wm Morris — Fri, 12 Feb 2010 14:12:53 +0000

All the more reason why Irreantum should serialize novelettes/novellas. But yes, postage rates are a killer.

By: Marny Parkin

Marny Parkin — Fri, 12 Feb 2010 06:12:14 +0000

The problem with Irreantum upping the page count is that at 192 pages the postal rate takes a massive jump. (We have the same problem with BYU Studies.)

By: S.P. Bailey

S.P. Bailey — Fri, 12 Feb 2010 04:43:25 +0000

I don't have anything important to add. I just wanted to point out that Wm's header reads like the first half of a Karnac the Magnificent joke.

By: Mahonri Stewart

Mahonri Stewart — Thu, 11 Feb 2010 22:20:26 +0000

I’ve voted in the past… I’m not sure if I’m on the list for this year

By: Jonathan Langford

Jonathan Langford — Thu, 11 Feb 2010 20:49:09 +0000

I’m a member of the Whitney academy, as of about a month ago. It looks like anyone who’s had a novel published in the last 3 years can become a member by contacting them.

That said, I don’t know if I’ll be voting this year. In order to vote for any category, they’ve instituted a rule saying you have to read all the finalists for that category. It’s a good rule, I think (and certainly good news for me, since it means more people might read my novel — which Chris will be supplying free in PDF form to Whitney voters). But given how hard I find it to read individual novels these days, I’m not sure I’ll be able to read all the finalists in any category…