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So. This happened.<\/p>\n
Tyche Books won the Douglas Barbour Award for Speculative Fiction (awarded annually by the Book Publishers Association of Alberta) for Water: Selkies, Sirens and Sea Monsters<\/em>. Which I just happen to have edited \ud83d\ude09<\/p>\n I got the news sitting at my table at Edmonton Expo. At first I was in shock, texted back something like, “Are you sure?” and when I was assured that yes, that really did happen I just sort of stood up, looked at all the strangers surrounding me and was like, “My book just won an award?!”<\/p>\n LOL It was very surreal and super awesome.<\/p>\n What a way to cap off a fantastic anthology series.<\/p>\n Congratulations and thanks to everyone involved in this book — the amazing contributors, Ashley Walters for her freaking fantastic cover and especially, especially Margaret, the Boss Lady over at Tyche Books.<\/p>\n <3<\/p>\n [\/et_pb_text][\/et_pb_column][\/et_pb_row][\/et_pb_section]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":" So. This happened. Tyche Books won the Douglas Barbour Award for Speculative Fiction (awarded annually by the Book Publishers Association of Alberta) for Water: Selkies, Sirens and Sea Monsters. Which I just happen to have edited \ud83d\ude09 I got the news sitting at my table at Edmonton Expo. At first I was in shock, texted […]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_et_pb_use_builder":"on","_et_pb_old_content":"","_et_gb_content_width":"","footnotes":""},"categories":[8,51],"tags":[87,86,11,88],"class_list":["post-1975","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-announcements","category-elemental-anthologies","tag-award-winning","tag-recognition","tag-water","tag-whaaaaaat"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.rhondaparrish.com\/home\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1975","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.rhondaparrish.com\/home\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.rhondaparrish.com\/home\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.rhondaparrish.com\/home\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.rhondaparrish.com\/home\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=1975"}],"version-history":[{"count":4,"href":"https:\/\/www.rhondaparrish.com\/home\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1975\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":1983,"href":"https:\/\/www.rhondaparrish.com\/home\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1975\/revisions\/1983"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.rhondaparrish.com\/home\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=1975"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.rhondaparrish.com\/home\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=1975"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.rhondaparrish.com\/home\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=1975"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}