Shortlisted! (UPDATED)
Somewhat to my surprise, my novel has been shortlisted for the Reedsy Discovery Editor's choice award. This is a new award. According to the website, 16 titles have been selected out of over 2000 books that have appeared on Reedsy Discovery in 2024.
Reedsy Discovery is a kind of crowd-sourced book review and promotion site. It cost $50 to post, which compared to most sites is quite reasonable, though it took a long while for me to get my one review, which was positive. Discovery functions a little bit like social media, and a lot like Goodreads, where readers are encouraged to follow each other and so on. It's a reasonable model, but I'm terrible at that, so I'm truly surprised I made the shortlist.
The final winner (or winners?) will be announced December 30, 2024, though, really, to have made it to the shortlist alone is more than I would have expected.
UPDATE: I did not win, but even so, being on the shortlist out of 2000 is very good. Congratulations to the winners!