My hat is off to Dylan James Quarles of good ole Port Townsend, one of the winners of BestIndieBookAward.Com’s 2021 “BIBA” for his novel There Be Monsters.
It’s science fiction! It’s Fantasy! It’s so good that not only has it received this award, it’s also gotten four and a half stars on Good Reads!
Y’know, sometimes I think Port Townsend is magic. A combination of Shangri La and Brigadoon. Cool things like this are always happening.
But you already suspected as much, yeah?
Here’s the salient paragraph in IndieWire’s report on last week’s ratings:
Back in 2001, after the demise of FoxKids TV, Haim Saban’s U.S. production company, and, therefore, Spider-Man unlimited and my last show for both corporations, Diabolik, I used the time I now had – and the disgust I felt about the whole way my second career (AKA the animation writing thing) had gone – to write a novel.
It was based on a true story, and I worked very closely with the subject of that story, a cardio-thoracic surgeon who had unfairly lost his medical license because, in his own words, “I’m a major league asshole.”
And, truth to tell, he was.
…Here’s the best pic of him I’ve ever seen.
Per Herbie J’s email to me:
Thanks to master craftsman and fiction podcaster supreme Bob Tinsley for bestowing this honor upon my most deserving superhero (her hobby is quantum physics!) wife!
via Facebook, but what can you do?