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The fabulous Ken Scholes alerted me that we both have novels (his Lamentation and my King's Dragon) that are finalists for the prix Elbakin.net, in the translated fantasy novel division. You can find the announcement here, in French. Very cool.
Another review of Cold Magic can be found at Fantasy Book Critic. Honestly, you know, when I read a comment in a review or on a message board like "Kate Elliott writes fantasy for the brain-dead," I may inadvertently memorize it but I also find it amusing because it so clearly represents a reader who doesn't resonate with my stuff at all. But this review is of a kind that can actually intimidate me a bit as I work on the next volume. No pressure. . . .
As many of you know if you read this blog regularly, I paddle outrigger canoes with Manu o ke Kai Canoe Club. (btw, it translates to "bird of the sea")
Team paddling (OC-6 as opposed to OC-1 and OC-2) here in Hawaii basically runs in three seasons: the "winter" season which is more of a recreational or maintenance season, running from mid-October through late February; regatta season running from March - July in which there are usually 7 regatta competitions followed by an "association"** championship followed by a state championship; and then the long distance season from August - October which ends with the Molokai - Oahu races (one for women and one for men), considered the "world championship" of long distance outrigger canoe racing.
The regatta consists of, um, about 38 or 39 races in categories like Masters Women (4), Mixed Novice B, Girls 18, and etc. Big clubs field crews in most of the races; small clubs many fewer.
Manu was established 26 years ago and in all that time has never won an individual regatta on points.
Today, in the fifth regatta of the season, this one at Hale'iwa Beach Park sponsored by North Shore Canoe Club, we did.
Imua Manu!
** (our association Na Ohana o na Hui Wa'a has, um, 18 or 19 clubs, of varying sizes--that is, number of paddlers and thus number of crews they field for each regatta; there is another paddling association on Oahu, and then each of the larger Neighbor Islands has an association as well)
"imua" means: "go forward"
The fabulous Ken Scholes alerted me that we both have novels (his Lamentation and my King's Dragon) that are finalists for the prix Elbakin.net, in the translated fantasy novel division. You can find the announcement here, in French. Very cool.
Another review of Cold Magic can be found at Fantasy Book Critic. Honestly, you know, when I read a comment in a review or on a message board like "Kate Elliott writes fantasy for the brain-dead," I may inadvertently memorize it but I also find it amusing because it so clearly represents a reader who doesn't resonate with my stuff at all. But this review is of a kind that can actually intimidate me a bit as I work on the next volume. No pressure. . . .
As many of you know if you read this blog regularly, I paddle outrigger canoes with Manu o ke Kai Canoe Club. (btw, it translates to "bird of the sea")
Team paddling (OC-6 as opposed to OC-1 and OC-2) here in Hawaii basically runs in three seasons: the "winter" season which is more of a recreational or maintenance season, running from mid-October through late February; regatta season running from March - July in which there are usually 7 regatta competitions followed by an "association"** championship followed by a state championship; and then the long distance season from August - October which ends with the Molokai - Oahu races (one for women and one for men), considered the "world championship" of long distance outrigger canoe racing.
The regatta consists of, um, about 38 or 39 races in categories like Masters Women (4), Mixed Novice B, Girls 18, and etc. Big clubs field crews in most of the races; small clubs many fewer.
Manu was established 26 years ago and in all that time has never won an individual regatta on points.
Today, in the fifth regatta of the season, this one at Hale'iwa Beach Park sponsored by North Shore Canoe Club, we did.
Imua Manu!
** (our association Na Ohana o na Hui Wa'a has, um, 18 or 19 clubs, of varying sizes--that is, number of paddlers and thus number of crews they field for each regatta; there is another paddling association on Oahu, and then each of the larger Neighbor Islands has an association as well)
"imua" means: "go forward"