It was an honor to serve as judge for the Georgia Author of the Year Awards in the category of Detective/Mystery. Congratulations to the winner Wanda Morris and the finalist Brian Panowich!!! You can read my judge's statements here:
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So much about the quality of movies went downhill with the addition of those words at the foot of that peak

Cinema is to blame for bad fiction like penicillin is to blame for the clap. Aside from a lack of interiority--which, yes, can be blamed on visual mediums--the problems with today's fiction would actually be solved by emulating film and TV
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