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Vote "Cold Days" for Best Paranormal Fantasy of 2013 · 11:10pm Nov 19th, 2013
Cold Days is in the running for Best Paranormal Fantasy of 2013 in the Goodreads Choice Awards. Lesser books have always taken this honor from The Dresden Files, but not this time! This year the horde shall gather like never before! This year the Butcher will taste blood! This year victory is ours!
Oh and if you're a fan of Brandon Sanderson (and you should be), he has two books in the running: A Memory of Light in Best Fantasy and Steelheart in Best Young Adult Fantasy and Science Fiction.
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psychicscubadiver · 946 views
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Right away Cap-i-tan!
Hm. I'm not sure if voting in this would be fair. I haven't read any of the other nominees.
Of course I would vote for your story.
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Is this where I first claim that you're probably Jim first =p? But yes, I've read two other books on that list, and Cold Days is definitely the better of them.
I've had the privilege of meeting Mr Butcher a couple of times, though I don't imagine he remembers any of them, but I've been reading his books forever now (since 3 came out), and it was a bit of an underground hit at first, so it was easier to exchange a few words at a con.
And of course now that I'm voting, I have to toss one in for Scalzi's Human Division in the Sci-Fi category too.
"And those worlds he builds? Those are some worlds right there."
(Penny Arcade 2013, on Brandon Sanderson)
I had literally just finished Steelheart not hours before you posted this, some coincidence right there.
I nearly, nearly clicked on Kevin Hearne's Hunted. Not to say that it is better then Cold Day, but more along the lines of having two of my favorite authors being up for the same award. I've slowly became a fan of the Iron Druid Chronicles since book two and it has made its way into my top tier of urban fantasy series'.
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Luckily my inner Bob snarked some cold hard sense into me to go with my boy Jim this time around. Let's hope that Butcher finally gets some recognition from GoodReads for making urban fantasy relevant again.