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What is it?

The Independent Literary Awards are book awards given by literary bloggers. The Independent Literary Awards is currently in its inaugural year and will be presenting the winners for the 2010 calendar year in February of 2011.

What genres are included?

The genres that will be represented and receiving awards for 2010 are:

GLBTQ
Literary Fiction
Mystery
Non-Fiction
Speculative Fiction

How do I nominate a book?

Visit this site, select the genre you are interested in, and submit your nomination in the comment portion of the post.

Things to remember when you nominate a book:

-You must be a literary blogger; and a link to your blog must be provided so we can verify this. (You may not be the author, publisher, or publicist of the book you are nominating).

-You may nominate a book that has already been listed (the books with the most nominations will be what we add to the Long List).

-You may nominate books in more than one genre, but only one per genre and please make one of those genres Literary Fiction (gotta plug the category).

-Nominations close December 15, 2010.

So, Ti… why are you telling us about this?

Well, I love books but Lyndsey and I are judges for the Literary Fiction category and guess who’s on our panel?

Jill – Fizzy Thoughts
Matt – A Guy’s Moleskin Notebook
Meg – Write Meg
Melody – Fingers and Prose

They rock. Since we are the Literary Fiction panel. Here is our shameless plug button:

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It will be hard to determine one winner, but I can’t wait to see what makes the short list.

The Sunday Salon Button

It’s been a fabulous weekend. Nothing special going on except that I managed to knock more gifts off the list. My goal is to be done by Dec. 1st so that I can enjoy family and friends and not be frazzled by last-minute shopping.

I’ve carved my list down from last year too, which is why it’s so much easier this year. I’m just fed-up with the commercial aspect of Christmas. I am buying smaller, more thoughtful gifts and leaving it at that.

BUT, my favorite part of Christmas is the time off. I am lucky to have been at my current job for over 15 years so I have lots of vacation to use for the holidays. I’m taking the entire week of Thanksgiving off as well as two weeks for Christmas. I am going to hang-out in my jammies, drink hot chocolate (or more likely coffee) and READ!

I just came back from the bookstore and there were so many books that I wanted to pick-up. I held back, but I am making a mental list and putting together my reading for the holidays. Here are some of the books that caught my eye. Click on each cover for more info.