The SULLIVANS - The Results Are In!

The votes have been counted, the awards have been made, and the results are in! A big thank you to the people who voted so not all decisions on who should win were in my trotters alone.

And now:
The Winners!


Best Science Fiction:

The High Ground by Melinda Snodgrass
This book is the first book in a series and takes place at a military academy in space. It is totally awesome.


Best Urban Fantasy:

Three Mages and a Margarita by Annette Marie
This is the first book in a really fun Urban Fantasy series full of action and cool characters.


Best Young Adult Fantasy:

Pawned by Laura Bickle
This book takes place in a pawnshop and has a demon who looks like a miniature T-Rex! It is awesome!


Best Zombie Book:

Flesh by Laura Bickle
A funeral home where the dead go missing, a creepy catfish and lots of (st)icky situations. Another awesome read.


And lastly:
The book that won both Most Swooniest Romance and the Award for Awesomest Book of Awesome:

The Arrows of the Heart by Jeffe Kennedy
This book has it all: a swoony romance with the most dreamiest hero according to Voodoo Bride and Olivia. A suspenseful story, creepy creatures and even more creepy people, and even a sort of zombies. This book released last year and we've already read it several times, because we can't get enough of it!


I will be personally handing over the award for Most Swooniest and Awesomest Book of Awesome to Jeffe Kennedy later this year, and I hope to hand Melinda Snodgrass her award rosette as well. Laura Bickle will get send her special award piggy for winning two categories her way, and I'll see if Annette Marie will want her rosette send her way as well.

*The piggies started their life as piggy banks, but were transformed into award piggies by me and Carien especially for the SULLIVANS. The rosettes were altered by us as well.*

Let me know if you want to see me do another SULLIVANS event next year.

The SULLIVANS - Last Call

Get your nomination or vote in before the end of May!
I'll be announcing the winners in June.

Best Zombie Book:
- 100 Days in Deadland by Rachel Aukes
- Deck Z by Chris Pauls and Matt Solomon
- Dread Nation by Justina Ireland
- Flesh by Laura Bickle
- Rot & Ruin by Jonathan Maberry
- Zom-B by Darren Shan

Best Young Adult Fantasy:
- Pawned by Laura Bickle
- The Archived by Victoria Schwab
- Grace and Fury by Tracy Banghart
- Some Quiet Place by Kelsey Sutton
- The Queen's Rising by Rebecca Ross
- Poison Study by Maria V. Snyder

Best Urban Fantasy:
- Shrill Dusk by Helen Harper
- Three Mages and a Margarita by Annette Marie
- How to Save an Undead Life by Hailey Edwards
- The Burned Spy by K.A. Krantz
- River Road by Suzanne Johnson

Most Swooniest Romance:
- A Princess in Theory by Alyssa Cole
- More Than Comics by Elizabeth Briggs
- Dangerous by Minerva Spencer
- Duke of Sin by Elizabeth Hoyt
- The Arrows of the Heart by Jeffe Kennedy

Best Science Fiction:
- Tin Star by Cecil Castellucci
- The High Ground by Melinda Snodgrass
- Contagion by Erin Bowman
- Valiant by Merrie Destefano

The SULLIVANS - Best Science Fiction

Another category where it was hard to narrow down the nominations, but I finally managed to select four.

- Tin Star by Cecil Castellucci
- The High Ground by Melinda Snodgrass
- Contagion by Erin Bowman
- Valiant by Merrie Destefano

Vote for your favorite or nominate another great SF!

The SULLIVANS - Most Swooniest Romance

Our Nominations for Most Swooniest Romance are:

A Princess in Theory by Alyssa Cole
More Than Comics by Elizabeth Briggs
Dangerous by Minerva Spencer
Duke of Sin by Elizabeth Hoyt
The Arrows of the Heart by Jeffe Kennedy

Vote for your favorite on this list or nominate another book.
And keep an eye out for the reveal of the winners in June.

The SULLIVANS - Best Urban Fantasy

If I nominated all the Urban Fantasy books I love, this list would be ginormous, so I decided to pick four more recent UF books, and left out books I've already raved about more than once in the past.

So my nominations for Best Urban Fantasy Book are:

Shrill Dusk by Helen Harper
Three Mages and a Margarita by Annette Marie
How to Save an Undead Life by Hailey Edwards
The Burned Spy by K.A. Krantz

Vote for you favorite of these books, or nominate another book in the comments!

The SULLIVANS - Best Young Adult Fantasy

Today I bring you my nominations for Best Young Adult Fantasy!
I picked both modern Fantasy/Paranormal settings and classic Fantasy settings.



*Pawned by Laura Bickle

*The Archived by Victoria Schwab

*Grace and Fury by Tracy Banghart

*Some Quiet Place by Kelsey Sutton

*The Queen's Rising by Rebecca Ross

*Poison Study by Maria V. Snyder


Feel free to add your own nomination in the comments or to vote for one of my nominations.

You can also leave your nomination or vote for Best Zombie Book if you haven't done so yet:

Best Zombie Book Nomination:
- 100 Days in Deadland
- Deck Z
- Dread Nation
- Flesh
- Rot & Ruin
- Zom-B by Darren Shan *New!*

The SULLIVANS - Best Zombie Book Nominations

Here are my nominations for
the SULLIVAN Award for Best Zombie Book.

Let me know in the comments what book you are rooting for. It can be one of these books, or another zombie book you love.

The winner will be announced during my Award Event in June.
(there might be a vote if needed)


100 Days in Deadland (Deadland #1)
by Rachel Aukes


Deck Z
by Chris Pauls and Matt Solomon


Dread Nation (Dread Nation #1)
by Justina Ireland


Flesh
by Laura Bickle


Rot & Ruin (Rot & Ruin #1)
by Jonathan Maberry

Introducing: The SULLIVANS!

Award season is upon us with lots of books getting nominated, judged, etc...

And as always only few of my favorites appear on the lists. I grumbled a bit, but then I decided:

Why not have my own awards!

So the SULLIVANS was born.

And you can join the fun!

I will have my own award season in June!
I'll make an amazing award for one book I think really deserves ALL THE AWARDS! This award will be the SULLIVAN for Awesomest Book of Awesome!

But...
There are more books that deserve awards!

So these next few month I'll be nominating books for the SULLIVANS in different categories. Think: Best Zombie Book, Best YA Fantasy, Best Urban Fantasy, Most Awesome Sidekick, Total Cover Buy But Did Not Regret, Swooniest Romance, etc...

And here you guys can help!

Know a cool category for a SULLIVAN, or a book you think really deserves to be nominated for a cool award? Let me know! Either in the comments of one of my SULLIVANS posts or email me. I'll have some voting rounds if enough people are interested.

Lets give the books we love some extra love!