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I don't know most of the authors, so I was going by names and pictures and could well have made mistakes

I did a cursory check to make sure they were eligible, but not with the attention the category organizer will pay in making the call, so I could be wrong I haven't read most of these books, so I can't vouch for how good they are. This category accepts ebook only publications (not all do). You can see the whole list of what's been nominated here.Įligible books are those published for teens from Octoto Octoin the US and Canada, and easily available. Some obvious books aren't on this list, because they've been nominated. So in the hope that the pool of YA speculative fiction books, in which I'm a first round panelist this year, is as diverse as can be, here's a list of books that haven't been nominated yet. Diversity isn't a criteria, but we at the Cybils love it when diverse books are well represented in the pool from which we choose our shortlisted books-we can't have diverse finalists if the diverse books aren't there to begin with. So what is the genre? I think “epic fantasy - without magic” describes it best.The Cybils Awards are chosen by panels of book reviewers in a variety of children's and YA book categories, based on two criteria-quality of writing, and reader appeal. Instead, it is a tale of struggle between competing ideologies, and the underlying lust for power.

It contains quite a few philosophical quotes, but it is not just a book on philosophy. It is an fantasy, but there is no magic, no fairies, no dragons. It is an epic, with entangled storylines about warring kingdoms, and their princes, soldiers and monks. Now, as the novel gets ready for publishing, one last question to settle: to what genre does it belong? So, to make sense of all this madness, I started writing the novel. So many notes, and so many quotes - after a while, it all became rather chaotic. I wondered about the places they visited, the food they ate, their failures, their glories. Then, a few other characters walked out from the shadows. So many questions: Is he really the villain? Who are his friends? Who is his family? Is he the main character, or just an extra in this story? That was interesting, and made me think deeper about this villain in my story. "Maybe I am villain in your story, but I am hero in mine." It took me about three months to write the story down, but the novel's characters have been in the back of my mind for longer than I remember - at least ten years.įour years ago, one of the characters (who I had labeled as a villain) spoke to me. My novel is almost ready, and will be published soon.