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The finalists for the 2007 AML fiction awards are:
NOVEL
Austenland, Shannon Hale
Before the Dawn, Dean Hughes
On the Road to Heaven, Coke Newell
The Well of Ascension, Brandon Sanderson
The Boxmaker's Son, Donald Smurthwaite
I Am Not Wolf, Roger Terry
Effigy, Alissa York
YOUNG ADULT NOVEL
Notes on a Near-Life Experience, Olivia Birdsall
This Is What I Did, Ann Dee Ellis
Dragon Slippers, Jessica Day George
Book of a Thousand Days, Shannon Hale
The Princess and the Hound, Mette Ivie Harrison
Fablehaven: Rise of the Evening Star, Brandon Mull
Finding Daddy, Louise Plummer
Alcatraz vs. the Evil Librarians, Brandon Sanderson
SHORT FICTION
"Light of the New Day," Darin Cozzens, Irreantum 8:1 (2007)
"Clothing Esther," Lisa Torcasso Downing, Sunstone #148 (Dec. 2007)
"Drought," Larry T. Menlove, Dialogue 40:3 (Fall 2007)
"The Nature of Comets," Sigrid Olsen, Dialogue 40:1 (Spring 2007)
"The Buzzard Tree," Johnny Townsend, Dialogue 40:4 (Winter 2007)
The winners in all categories will be announced at the AML annual meeting on Saturday, March 8, 2008.
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Good idea to publish the finalists Melissa, this helps make it interesting.
Louise Plummer had a novel out in 2007? I did not realize, she is one of my favorites.
Finding Daddy, Louise Plummer. Random House, Novemember 2007
Synopsis
MIRA KENT IS nearing her 16th birthday and wants to know more about a father she doesn't remember. Her mother tells her she has all his good qualities, but isn't specific. With nothing but a photo of her father, Mira wants more. She writes him imaginary notes:
Daddy, darling, where are you? I need you in my life. Aren't you curious about me? About school? I have a boyfriend named Dylan. Mom says you both made the decision during the divorce that you wouldn't be part of my life. It was easier, she says. It hasn't been easier for me. Look for me, dearest Daddy, and I'll look for you. I'll look until I find you.
Publishers Weekly review:
Mira is living a rather idyllic if boring life in Salt Lake City, with an English-teacher mother and a real-estate powerhouse of a grandmother who nevertheless makes Belgian waffles for Mira, her best friend and her boyfriend on Saturday mornings. The only thing missing is her father; Mira has no memory of him, and her mother will say only that he is "not someone we want in our lives." Mira discovers his name and contact information-after surreptitiously unearthing her parents' marriage certificate, and after her boyfriend uses his father's government access to track him down on the Internet-and she phones him immediately. He is thrilled to hear from her. But strange events start happening: her dog is killed, and someone tries to break into the house. Should she suspect her dad? Readers will never be in doubt, nor will they be surprised when he turns out to be a psychopath bent on revenge against her family. Even so, Plummer creates some very creepy scenes, including Mira's discovery of a murder scene and a tense face-off involving a gun. While Mira's naiveté strains credibility, she is easy to like, as are her family and friends ("I'm a genius and she's only gifted. My verbal scores are higher," her best friend jokes to Mira's dad, explaining why she is the one asking him questions). The author packs a lot of tension into a small story. Although it may not be completely believable, it is genuinely hair-raising. Ages 12-up. (Nov.)
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When do the nominees in the other categories get announced? For theater my vote is for Stuck on the Edge by Elizabeth Leavitt. EXCELLENT show, one of BYU's best for a long time. But if I want my play Rings of the Tree, which performed at UVSC this year, to be considered, who do I send that to this year?
Upon the stage of a theater can be represented in character, evil and its consequences, good and its happy results and rewards; the weakness and the follies of man, the magnamity of virtue and the greatness of truth. The stage can be made to aid the pulpit in impressing upon the minds of a community an enlightened sense of a virtuous life, also a proper horror of the enormity of sin and a just dread of its consequences. The path of sin with its thorns and pitfalls, its gins and snares can be revealed, and how to shun it (Discourses of Brigham Young, p.243; Bookcraft, 199 
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. That's a good question I had never thought of before: what constitutes eligibility? And how is the number of nominations arrived at? Don't tell me more than I deserve to know.
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