BOOK OF THE YEAR - QUARTER FINALS

At the moment, we 21 books eligible for Book of the Year, and that is without December's votes!

Therefore here is how we will vote - for each quarter of the year, we will pick the top three books. These will go into a semi-final round, from which we will select six finalists.

Spring & Summer polls will be open until Friday night December 21st- so get voting!

Thanks!

2008 - YEAR OF THE ????

As you are aware, 2007 was officially designated The Year of the Nodpot - and hence this blog came into being.

The year is now drawing to a close and unless the nodpots disresponsibly end the year on a date other than December 31st, this blog is drawing to a close. Our last entry will probably be early on January 1st, when we shall announce the winner of DNOTY '07.

Shortly before that, we will announce book of the year - more details later this week.

It has been a wonderful year here at the helm of our blog, and there's no doubt that both Bee and I will miss it terribly.

Anyway, watch out for the final vote of the year!

AND THE WINNER IS...

Best read for November 2007 is a tie between Leaf: In Search of Ramune by Mungo and Lottie, The Half-Vampire by Valinora Troy.

A close second (or should that be third?) is The Five Muses.

Thanks for voting everyone!

NOVEMBER BEST READ

Don't forget to vote - tomorrow is your last chance!

TIMES/CHICKEN HOUSE COMPETITION

For those following the fortunes of Valinora Troy and Mungo, both entered in TheTimes/Chicken House Children's author competition, The Times Online have started to published extracts from some of the submissions. They will have a new one each week, and the first was posted Friday November 30th, so I expect there'll be a new one this Friday.

You check out the competition then at : http://timesonline.co.uk/tol/system/topicRoot/Children_s_author_competition/

Best of luck to the two Nodpots!

BEST READ NOVEMBER

And the candidates are:

The Wisdom of Fr. Brown by G.K.Chesterton

The Five Muses Anthology (you know who the authors are!)

The Kingdom of Animals by Various

The Twelfth Card by Jeffrey Deaver

Priest by uncredited author

The People's Friend short story collection

The Scandal of Fr. Brown by GKC

Lottie The Half-Vampire by Valinora Troy

Leaf: In Search of Ramune by Mungo

The Twilight Watch by Sergei Lukyanenko


Hmm quite a line up! Plenty of short story collections plus a few by distinguished Nodpots...

You have until Tuesday 11th December to vote - so get voting!!

ANOTHER TEST FILE

Testing this new technology...

Also to show the Monster that Tofpot has conquered her fear of the stairs!