Best Overall: Jene' Jackson Hanna - The Oat Project
Audience Favorite: Jene' Jackson Hanna - The Oat Project
Best YA: Ron Cree - The Codex
Best Voice: John Sharpe - No More Bull
Best Premise: Thea Hutcheson - The Bee Lady's Amulet
Best Speculative Fiction: Natalia Brothers - The Soul of a Stillborn
Best Tension: Fleur Bradley - Two-Faced
Best Action: Matthew Dyer - The Light of Dawn
Honorable Mention: Ron Heimbecher - Heaven's Lower East Side
Honorable Mention: Kari Wainwright - Break a Leg--Or Two
1. The rushing adrenalin in Twenty Talented Tellers-of-Tales!!!!
2. B&B (Barb & Beth), and everyone involved in putting it all together.
3. The Prez (Chris) for being such a gracious hostess.
4. Martha for the registrations and so-o-o-o-o much more.
5. The insightful brilliance of the Celebrity Judges (Alane, Doris and Sandra)
-- I'm not kissing up, the event is over.
6. Jodi (aka Vanna), Mistress - can I say that - of Ceremonies extraordinaire and her helpful announcements when someone was headed --- "out of the room".
7. The sponsors of winner's prizes (Charles, Doris, Kristen, Martin, Pam, Sandra, Steve and Hooked on Books)
8. Donnell for gathering door prizes and the door prize sponsors (Donnell, Keri, and Computer Resources)
9. Duncan the Wizard and his Magical Sound Effects Machine.
10. The Marriott Hotel and staff, for providing a magnificent venue and scrumptious goodies.
Remember: Opening lines are not just for nightclubs (or strip clubs, Jene') any more.
