Intelligent Things: Second in the Newcomers Series is a finalist in the 2020 Sci-fi contest run by the American Fiction Awards, sponsored by American Book Fest. (http://americanbookfest.com/americanfictionawards)
The official press release reads in part:
LOS ANGELES – American Book Fest has announced the winners and finalists of The 2020 American Fiction Awards on August 14, 2020. Winners and finalists were announced in 70 genre specific categories. Awards were presented for titles published in 2018-2020.
Keen says of the awards, now in their third year, “The 2020 results represent a phenomenal mix of books from a wide array of publishers throughout the United States. With a full publicity and marketing campaign promoting the results of the American Fiction Awards, this year’s winners and finalists will gain additional media coverage for the upcoming holiday retail season.”
Intelligent Things (sci-fi, 80,000 words): Engineer Jennifer Valentine releases advanced AI assistants online to revolutionize the internet of things. But her softbots, called NODs, go rogue, and she must save the national power grid from disaster. With her consciousness uploaded online, she searches for the leader of the NODs and finds much more than she expected. Back in her lab, she must decide: erase the entire NOD world to protect the human world?
Ebook – Kindle: ISBN-13: 978-1-7322274-7-7 (Mobi) amazon.com/dp/B07QLNLS88
Amazon Paperback: ISBN-13: 978-1-7322274-8-4 (Paper) amazon.com/dp/B07QLNLS8
Smashwords ebook: ISBN: 978-1-7322274-6-0 (Epub) smashwords.com/books/view/892597
This is great! Congratulations!
Another deserved honor for THE best psi-fi series ever. Can’t wait for next edition. Keep ’em cummin’, Doc Adams!