What an absolute
honour and thrill! My book has been short
listed for the 2007 Lulu Blooker Prize. I
have absolutely bugger all chance of winning as I am among enormously prestigious
and talented company; people like Frank Warren from Post Secret, Seth Godin, Colby
Buzzell, Kristin Espinasse, Jerome Armstrong and Markos Moulitsas from Daily Kos.
In fact, as I write that list down, I am amazed that I made it on to the list
at all. What a massive honour. I am beside myself with excitement. Little old me from the ‘obviously starved
state of the South African literary market’. Who knew!
tertia albertyn
The Lulu Blooker
Prize is the world's first literary prize devoted to "blooks"—books
based on websites such as blogs and webcomics. Last year's winner was Julie Powell for Julie & Julia.
Read more about the Blooker prize
here
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Wow! Can't believe I'm the first person to say CONGRATULATIONS!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!! Should presumably help in international publication too. That's just too cool. Well done you.
Posted by: paola | 12 March 2007 at 10:21 AM
Congratulations! You know I adore your book, and am so proud that you took the time to write and share it with us.
Am off to see what I can get for autographed copy of Lulu Blooker Prize Finalist's book on ebay!
(Not to worry, would never part with it. Well, unless it would garner a lot - then I would ask for another from you, as mine was helplessly lost in tragic event.)
xoxo
Posted by: Boulder | 12 March 2007 at 12:08 PM
Congratulations, and Good Luck!
Posted by: Keith | 12 March 2007 at 03:23 PM
You rock, Tertia! Congratulations!
Posted by: Beth | 12 March 2007 at 03:44 PM
YAY!!! I knew you had it in you!! Tertia, the day I started reading you I knew I was in the presence of someone on an upward path. Not that I would wish that particular path on anyone, but just LOOK what you have to show for it! Finally, one of us made it. : )
I'm so proud of you.
Mindy
Posted by: Mindy | 12 March 2007 at 06:09 PM
Congrats!!!! That's so exciting. I can't wait to read it.
Posted by: millie | 12 March 2007 at 07:01 PM
Congratulations T! :-)
You deserve the nomination, and you deserve to win as much as the next genius!
Millie ...
The book is amazing. I bought it via Kalahari and had it shipped to NZ (pricey, but beyond worth it - I think the book cost me about NZ$20 and the shipping about NZ$40!). They delivered really quickly, and my husband has even been reading it as well. It's been good for him because it's infertility through someone else's eyes, not just as we are experiencing it, and he can see that it's not just me being an emotional spaz ...women all over the place experience the same horrendous ups, downs, and tragedies. It's quite funny ...I have said for the last 2 years of infertility that dealing with it is like starting down the barrel of a gun, and a couple of weeks ago he yells out completely randomly from the lounge when I thought he was playing xbox ..."Hey! Tertia says that thing too!!" ...apparently that legitimises the expression. Sigh! Tertia? Can you tell my husband that I absolutely, really need a new pair of shoes? I'm sure he'll say yes if you tell him ... :-)
Posted by: Simonne | 12 March 2007 at 10:04 PM
Congrats!! and best of luck to you :)
Posted by: Suzanne | 13 March 2007 at 02:28 AM
Congrats, you're a superstar. Don't discount yourself, you have a great story...
Posted by: Mike | 13 March 2007 at 07:53 AM
That's wonderful. Wow, life has been good lately, hasn't it? You deserve it, enjoy it.
Posted by: j | 13 March 2007 at 02:36 PM
Congratulations!
Posted by: Sara | 13 March 2007 at 04:23 PM
Ha Ha be off spider. So cool hope little baby continues to make you puke.
Love Cass
Posted by: Cass | 14 March 2007 at 02:54 PM
Hey Tertia - a big well done on the nomination - having read your mail about nagging SA'ers at Wired Gecko, I wanted to personally say that you are a South African Peak'er!
Keep it up, keep it going, and most of all, enjoy it!
Posted by: Rouvanne | 14 March 2007 at 03:23 PM
Tertia is amazing. She is a good example of many of the good things about SA and it is a profound honour to blog about her ... (and no, she didn't pay me for that and I am only going a teensy bit overboard with my comment). Of course she is absolutely right about people tending to focus on the negative and forgetting about all the good stuff. Like Tertia. And me of course.
Posted by: Paul Jacobson | 14 March 2007 at 11:26 PM
Congratulations T! "It is an honour just to be nominated..." ;)
Posted by: projgen | 15 March 2007 at 01:03 AM
Wow, that IS wonderful!!! Things just get better and better! Your karma is clearly on an upswing.
Posted by: aalize | 18 March 2007 at 02:37 PM