The Electric God and Other Shorts won Second Place at The Spring 2025 BookFest Awards in the category of Short Stories! The BookFest is one of the largest online book festivals/award competitions in the world. This marks the third time and year in a row that one of my books won at this prestigious event. Déjà View won First Place last year in the category of Young Adult – Literary & Coming of Age, and Danger Peak won Second Place the year before in the category of Young Adult – Action and Adventure. And while it would’ve been nice to win First Place in this category of course, as Déjà View did in its own, Short Stories is a much wider and more competitive category than the previous categories I’ve been awarded for, so I’m thrilled all the same. In other words, it’s not like I won for Women’s Fiction Ghost Mysteries Set in the Victorian Era.
You can view the public-facing page of my official BookFest award announcement below:
And you can view my award certificate here:
I’ve already updated the Electric God homepage with the award seal.
Below is a video of all the BookFest winners this spring. You can see the cover of my book around the 22-minute mark:
I want to thank Desireé Duffy, Founder of The BookFest, and the judges for having such good taste in independent literature 3 years in a row.
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In other MTP news, I’ll be signing my books at the 2025 MastiCon at the Mastics-Moriches-Shirley Community Library on Saturday, May 3 from 12 p.m. to 4 p.m. MastiCon is an annual community Comic Con celebrating pop culture featuring multiple vendors from the worlds of sci-fi, literature, and sometimes both (like me!). The library is located at 201 Montauk Highway in Moriches, NY. So stop by to get your discounted copies of Danger Peak, Déjà View, and The Electric God and Other Shorts—and get a free bookmark and small ‘80s toy! Also, you can wish me a happy early birthday, as it’s the very next day. May the 4th be with you!
MTP
P.S.: The Danger Peak audiobook is finally here!
P.P.S.: The Electric God and Other Shorts is still available on Amazon and Barnes & Noble:
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