Goodreads Choice Awards Update!

It's the most beautiful foggy day outside; the sky looks like tea with a lot of milk in it. I'm inside, at the kitchen table, drinking coffee with a lot of milk in it (aka a latte). What a milky day.

I'm laying low this afternoon because I'm a little peopled out (in a good way!). This past week I did a reading at Bushwakkers and visited two book clubs, one in Baltimore via Zoom and one here in Regina. I also have an event tomorrow night in Moose Jaw—a friend of mine (Tim!) is screening his film and he's invited me to be part of a panel discussion afterward (event and ticket info here)—so I need to get my social battery back up to full (or, like, even 75% would probably do it). All good things, but my fellow introverts know that social batteries don't differentiate between good things and bad things, just peopley things and non-peopley things (though I think I expend a little extra energy for meeting-new-people things and center-of-attention things). 

Anyway. I've come on here to share some good news: I Think We've Been Here Before has made it to the final round of voting for the Goodreads Choice Awards (more on that here). 

I've been surprised a time or two in my life, but this is honestly one of the more surprising things that has ever happened to me. I was not just skeptical about making it to the next round, I actually thought it wasn't possible—which is why I didn't even check the short list to see if I'd gone through. Someone messaged me to tell me I'd made it and I thought it was a mean prank. I felt sad. I FELT SORRY FOR MYSELF. And then I looked for myself and saw that it wasn't a prank and I just felt baffled. 

I still feel a little baffled. But happy baffled. 

Anyway, I'd really like to say thank you to everyone who took the time out of their day to vote for me. According to Goodreads, almost five million people voted in that first round, which is a number I have a hard time understanding. It's wild to think that the number of people who voted for me specifically could've been high enough to break through that kind of noise and move my weird little Saskatchewan Christmas apocalypse novel along. It's been a really nice little trip. It feels validating and fun. Thank you, thank you, THANK YOU.

But wait! There's more!

There is one more round of voting; it's a new round, which means that you can vote again; your first round vote no longer counts (why do they do it like this? No one knows!). This round closes on Sunday, November 30. After that, one winner will be crowned in each category and all I will have of this week is a fond memory and a really nice TBR list (I am going to read every single book in the sci-fi category; they all look AMAZING and I recommend you do the same).

Okay. Click here or on the graphic below to vote one last time if you want. I'll love you forever!