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This isn't an official list (I didn't have a pen in my dress last night). The official list will be released by Golden Crown Literary Society at their conference website. Here's what I remember as the winners in last night's Golden Crown Literary Society awards:

• Lesbian Anthology(non-erotica) - Love, Castro Street, Katherine V. Forrest & Jim Van Buskirk eds., Alyson Books.
  
• Dramatic General Fiction - Landing, Emma Donoghue, Harcourt; The Spanish Pearl, Catherine Friend, Bold Strokes Books.
  
• Anthology (erotica) - Crave, Catherine Lundoff, Lethe Press; Erotic Interludes 5: Road Games, Stacia Seaman & Radclyffe eds., Bold Strokes Books; In Deep Waters, Karin Kallmaker & Radclyffe eds., Bella Books.
  
• Mystery - Dark Valentine, Jennifer Fulton, Bold Strokes Books; Redress of Grievances, Brenda Adcock, Regal Crest; The Devil Unleashed, Ali Vali, Bold Strokes Books.
  
• Poetry - The Islands Project, Eloise Klein Healy, Red Hen Press; Torch River, Elizabeth Philips, Brick Books.
  
• Romance - And Playing the Role of Herself, K.E. Lane, Regal Crest; Out of Love, KG MacGregor, Bella Books; Second Season, Ali Vali, Bold Strokes Books.
  
• Short Story/Essay Collection - Are There Closets in Heaven, Carol & Robert Curoe eds., Syren Book Co.; Deep in the Heart - A Memoir of Love and Longing, Shiela Morris, Red Letter Press; Fried & True - Tales from Rehoboth Beach, Fay Jacobs, A&M Books.
  
• Speculative Fiction - Crown of Valencia, Catherine Friend, BSB; Queens of Tristaine, Cate Culpepper, BSB; Rebel's Quest, Gun Brooke, BSB.
  
• Debut Author - And Playing the Role of Herself, K.E. Lane, Regal Crest; Butch Girls Can Fix Anything, Paula Offutt, Regal Crest; Dateland, Jennifer Parello, McKenna Publishing.
  
• Ann Bannon Popular Choice - And Playing the Role of Herself, K.E. Lane, Regal Crest.
  
• GCLS Directors' Award - Nann Dunne and JustAboutWrite.com
  
• GCLS Trailblazer Award - Katherine V. Forrest.
  

Again, congratulations to everyone!

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Last night, the Lambda Literary Foundation announced the 2007 winners of the Lammy. Their website hasn't been updated yet as I type this, but from their PR email, here's some of my favorite category winners!

LGBT ANTHOLOGY
First Person Queer, edited by Richard Labonte and Lawrence Schimel (Arsenal Pulp Press)

LGBT SCI-FI/FANTASY/HORROR
The Dust of Wonderland, Lee Thomas
(Alyson Books)

LGBT STUDIES
Between Women, Sharon Marcus
(Princeton University Press)

BISEXUAL
Split Screen, Brett Hartinger
(HarperCollins Children's Books)

LESBIAN DEBUT FICTION
Among Other Things, I've Taken Up Smoking, Aoibheann Sweeney
(The Penguin Press)

WOMEN'S FICTION
The IHOP Papers, Ali Leibegott
(Carroll & Graf)

WOMEN'S ROMANCE
Out of Love, KG MacGregor
(Bella Books)

WOMEN'S MYSTERY
Wall of Silence, Gabrielle Goldsby (Bold Strokes Books)

WOMEN'S MEMOIR/BIOGRAPHY
And Now We Are Going to Have a Party Nicola Griffith (Payseur & Schmidt)

to all the winners! Way to go! to my acquaintances Gabrielle Goldsby and KG MacGregor!

Labels: Lambda Literary Society, winner

"Spend the Holidays with Turning Point" was a wonderful success! Thank you to all who ordered TP, for yourselves or friends and family. Picking a name out of a hat from the drawing tickets, I have a winner for the 11x17 poster!

It is Donna Y! Donna, look for an email from me later today asking for autographing information.

Thanks again, everyone, and have a beautiful holiday with the ones you love!

Labels: drawing, holiday, TP, Turning Point, winner