
I am very pleased to report that 'Bull Running For Girls' (Screaming Dreams 2008) by Allyson Bird - a book that I reviewed HERE in detail - has just won the Best Single-Author Collection Award from the British Fantasy Society.

I am gratified that others surely must also have recognised the raw passion and sincerity underlying the fiction ... as well as valuing the fiction itself as a perceived truth truer than truth itself. Not often does this chemistry work. Books have power not necessarily by their perfection but by a strong sense of emotion that permeates through the subtle gaps left by intention and mis-intention.
Interesting debate about this issue at link immediately above.
I think this book is doing its own form of bull running...
Please see link immediately above.
My comments on Ellen Datlow's Honourable Mentions with regard to this book
shown at link immediately above.