Glad that one's sorted
Onto other Keith matters, he's just twatted about his '25 years of the Writers of the Future' book
winning its category in the 2011 International Book Awards, and will no doubt be bragging about IT for years to come, adding it to his bio.
What are the International Book Awards I hear you ask, because I'd certainly never heard of them before, either. We've all heard of vanity presses, well these appear to be vanity awards. Organized by a company called JPX Media Group in Los Angeles, there were 117 categories this year
![Crazy :crazy:](./images/smilies/crazy.gif)
and Keith's book
won the 'Gift & Speciality Books' category.
For a dead guy, the late L. Ron Hubbard did quite well, getting nominations in the Fantasy/Sci-Fi, Mystery/Suspense, Short Story Fiction, Thriller/Adventure, and 3 out of the 4 Western nominations including the winner.
There's a damning piece at
http://www.salon.com/books/feature/2009 ... ook_awards" onclick="window.open(this.href);return false; by journalist Laura Miller, in which it is revealed that these are bogus awards that can be bought for, where every book that enters, read 'gives them the money, gets an automatic nomination.
Bloody sad really, but what do you expect from the world's biggest hack.
BOGUS AWARD
Freakzilla - "Apparently we can only aspire to be the 13th biggest Dune fan since we are not family or in the HLP."
Byron - "Are you trying to irk me?"