2012 Global Ebook Awards Finalists
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Wednesday, June 13, 2012
Mathias B. Freese Wins an NIEA for 2012, and more…
The sixth annual National Indie Excellence Awards were announced last month. On behalf of Serving House Journal, I’m delighted to share with our readers that a collection of essays by Mathias B. Freese, This Möbius Strip of Ifs, took first place in the general Non-Fiction category.
I’m pleased to add that we listed This Möbius Strip of Ifs on our Bookshelf of recommended reading last fall, in Issue 4.
Work by Freese also appears in Issue 2 (“Soap,” an essay) and Issue 3 (“Sincerely, Max Weber,” a short story). Which leads me to the next item of awesome news:
Freese’s collection of stories, I Truly Lament, has been chosen as a finalist in the 2012 Leapfrog Press Fiction Contest.
From Leapfrog Press: “I Truly Lament is a varied collection of stories, inmates in death camps, survivors of these camps, disenchanted Golems complaining about their tasks, Holocaust deniers and their ravings, and collectors of Hitler curiosa (only recently a few linens from Hitler’s bedroom suite went up for sale!) as well as an imagined interview with Eva Braun during her last days in the bunker. The intent is to perceive the Holocaust from several points of view.”
Congratulations, Matt! And best wishes for many more such accolades!
While composing this announcement, I just learned that This Möbius Strip of Ifs is the winner of the 2012 National Indie Excellence Book Award! See particulars at indieexcellence.com.
I am delighted to say that my story collection “I Truly Lament – Working Through the Holocaust” has been chosen as a finalist in the 2012 Leapfrog Fiction Contest. Only three adult fiction finalists will be awarded this year, out of 422 manuscripts.
In the years 2010-2011 short stories were published in the following online magazines by editors whose gracious support encouraged me to go on with the manuscript.
I Truly Lament, is a varied collection of stories, inmates in death camps, survivors of these camps, disenchanted Golems complaining about their tasks, Holocaust deniers and their ravings, and collectors of Hitler curiosa (only recently a few linens from Hitler’s bedroom suite went up for sale!) as well as an imagined interview with Eva Braun during her last days in the bunker. The intent is to perceive the Holocaust from several points of view.
An astute historian of the Holocaust has observed that it is much like a train wreck, survivors wandering about in a daze, sense and understanding, for the moment, absent. No comprehensive rational order in sight.
An “elevator pitch” description of my book—also called a “hook,” that is meant to grab booksellers, reviewers, and readers, might be this:
A weirdly wonderful short story collection exploring the Holocaust from various literary angles ranging from gothic and romantic to phantasmagoric.
As I will turn 72 in July, I can say that the tortoise has won.
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PODBRAM is a POD review site offering legitimate book reviews to deserving print on demand, self-published, and small and large press authors and their readers. The i Tetralogy has won for fiction. An essay I wrote on this blog was read by editor, David Herrle, of Subtletea and he requested that I submit it to him. It has just been published: SubtleTea – February-April 2009 Edition Online Now. It’s called “Personal Posturings: Yahoos as Bloggers,” and is my take on that phenomenon grounded in my efforts to have my books reviewed. I take no prisoners.
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