First, from Radclyffe, came this announcement:

The Independent Publisher Book Awards were conceived as a broad-based, unaffiliated awards program open to all members of the independent publishing industry. The awards are intended to bring increased recognition to the thousands of exemplary independent, university, and self-published titles produced each year, and reward those who exhibit the courage, innovation, and creativity to bring about change in the world of publishing. This year there were 65 categories with several thousand entries. I am very pleased to announce that Bold Stokes Books has two semifinalists in the Romance and Erotica categories (these are not specifically LGBTcategories):

Romance
Turn Back Time, by Radclyffe (Bold Strokes Books); The Devil’s Bastard, by Charlsie Russell (Loblolly Writers House); The Vengeance Trap, by A.L. Hansen (Ophir Publishing); Mistress in Training, by Edwina Columbia (Dorian Press); The Crossroads Cafe, by Deborah Smith (BelleBooks)

Erotica
Erotic Interludes 4: Extreme Passions, edited by Radclyffe and Stacia Seaman (Bold Strokes Books); Room with a View, by Lucy Fur (Feral House); The Smart Girl’s Guide to Porn, edited by Violet Blue (Cleis Press); Gay Art: A Historic Collection, by Felix Lance Falkon with Thomas Waugh (Arsenal Pulp Press); Best Women’s Erotica 07, edited by Violet Blue (Cleis Press)

Then I got the news that a book I edited is on the USA Today Top 150 list.

I’m still feeling a bit battered, but I’m much happier now than I was a few hours ago.