GRID CITY OVERLOAD Awarded Honorable Mention for 2012 Book of the Year Awards

So if anyone remembers, way back three months ago GCO was announced as a finalist in the LITERARY category for the ForeWord Reviews 2012 Book of the Year Award, and yesterday at the American Library Association Annual Conference, which took place in Chicago, the winners were announced on the Popular Topics Stage.

Here is how the contest is judged according to the press release: ...a panel of sixty judges, librarians and booksellers only, will determine the winners. Gold, Silver, and Bronze awards, as well as Editor’s Choice Prizes for Fiction and Nonfiction... The winners of the two Editor’s Choice Prizes will be awarded $1,500 each. ForeWord’s Independent Publisher of the Year will also be announced.

Although I didn't receive any of these four awards, I was awarded Honorable Mention. I was up against novelists with some impressive pedigrees, including many university professors and previous award-winners of different fiction contests. Most everyone on the list had an MFA, it seemed, and the novel that won Silver was reviewed in the NY Times and had a blurb on the front from David Foster Wallace, so considering my own humble resume I'm honored to be among this list.

CLICK HERE TO SEE THE FULL LINE-UP OF WINNERS.

GOLD - Frottage and Even As We Speak by Mona Houghton. What Books Press.

SILVER - That's Not a Feeling by Dan Josefson. Soho Press.

BRONZE - Total Secession by Adam Connell. Published by Adam Connell. (The Bronze winner, I noticed, was the only other book on the list that wasn't published and distributed by a small press other than myself. Congratulations on your accomplishment.)

HONORABLE MENTION - Grid City Overload by Steven T. Bramble. CreateSpace.

Whole Beast Rag Issue 5: CHTHONIC

Issue Five of Whole Beast Rag, CHTHONIC, was published yesterday. In it you can find my short story Bottle Cap Theory.

Read BOTTLE CAP THEORY,
 or, read my previous short story in the AMERI/A issue, LENTES OSCUROS.

This issue looks to be a great one. See?



The art in this issue is from featured artist Tyler Spangler.




Also, listen to the mixtape made for the CHTHONIC issue.

CHTHONIC from wholebeastrag on 8tracks Radio.

1. BRING DA RUCKUS - El Michel's Affair
2. KIRUNA - Gina X Performance
3. DIALOGUE OF WIND AND LOVER - Paul Parrish
4. COLORADO TRAIL - Javelin
5. NO LLORES MÁS - Morena y Clara
6. EARTH SONG - Truck
7. A GIFT OF TEARS - Jeunesse d'Ivoire
8. A QUALSIASI PRESSO (TITOLI) - Luis Bacalov
9. DAYDREAM - Gunter Kallmann Choir
10. ALLORA IL TRENO - Bruno Nicolai
11. VALENTINE - Justice
12. ILLUMINATION - Broadcast
13. OH ALLAH - Alice Coltrane
14. WHEN THE LILIES DIE - IO Echo
15. FLYING - The Beatles
16. WITCHI TAI TO - Harpers Bizarre
17. SEVENLER AĞLARMIŞ - 3 Hürel
18. BELIEVER - John Maus
19. DIES IRAE PSICHEDELICO - Ennio Morricone

Enjoy!