Books in Canada/Amazon.ca First Novel Award

... and speaking of general information about my writing, here's some.

My novel, The Uninvited Guest, is on the shortlist of finalists for Canada's prestigious First Novel Award. Final judging is in October, which hopefully means many months of furious promotion by my publisher.

Here's the link to the announcement:

http://tinyurl.com/2g8tsv

And the full shortlist:

The Law of Dreams, Peter Behrens
The Uninvited Guest, John Degen
Stolen, Annette Lapointe
Empress of Asia, Adam Lewis
Lullabies for Little Criminals, Heather O’Neill
Certainty, Madeleine Thien