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Title: Whitney Awards
Post by: House of Mustard on February 10, 2009, 12:52:47 AM

The finalists for the Whitney Awards were posted today, and Brandon is up for three awards!  Mistborn is up for Best Novel of the Year and Best Speculative, and Alcatraz is up for Best Youth Fiction.

Congrats!

www.whitneyawards.com/2008finalists.html

Title: Re: Whitney Awards
Post by: Vatdoro on February 10, 2009, 06:58:49 PM

That's awesome. Congrats Braondon!

Title: Re: Whitney Awards
Post by: readerMom on February 10, 2009, 09:51:30 PM

So who gets to vote on these?  Is there any lobbying we can do?

Title: Re: Whitney Awards
Post by: Miyabi on February 11, 2009, 05:12:10 PM

Gratz Brandon.  Good luck, hope you win. :]

Title: Re: Whitney Awards
Post by: Emmaleem on February 11, 2009, 11:36:53 PM

Congratulations, Brandon! 

The Whitney Academy will be voting.  More info here:
http://www.whitneyawards.com/academy.html

Awards ceremony April 25th.  Best of luck to Brandon! (who, if I'm not mistaken, was one of the people who came up with the idea for the Whitneys in the first place, along with Robison Wells).