Just kidding. This doesn't win anything.
Day two of Dead End Follies Awards ceremony! Three more winners are crowned today. I calculated that if everything goes according to the plan, there will be eleven winners announced from here to Saturday and the rest will be announced next week, each in individual posts for their category. Everything should be wrapped up by the time you leave for Christmas vacation. Let's proceed, shall we.
Best Short Story Collection
So Different Now, by Ben Tanzer
For its profound understanding of what makes everyday life of individuals so dramatic and riveting. Tanzer's artistic sensitivity is attuned to the subtlest shifts within.
Best Non-Fiction Book
People Who Eat Darkness, by Richard Lloyd Parry
Not only for its depiction of a gruesome, yet intriguing and unique crime, but also for its thorough and though-provoking portrait of the nightmarish bureaucratic maze it can become to lose a loved one in foreign land.
Best New Book
Blackbirds, by Chuck Wendig
For its revolutionary hybrid approach to plotting, which is an unapologetic showing that other artistic mediums such as role-playing games and video games could translate well to literature. Wendig's amazing plotting is as much a driving force as his superb protagonist Myriam.
Congratulations to the winners! Tomorrow, three more!