FIREFLY is having an incredible year, I am overwhelmed and delighted by all the attention the book has received. Thank you to the MYRCA Northern Lights 2023 and IODE Violet Downey 2022 Awards for nominating FIREFLY to their shortlists!

Last November 2021, FIREFLY won the Governor General's Literary Award, a huge honour.

Now it has also had four wonderful nominations added to that honour: The Ruth and Sylvia Schwartz Children's Book Award, The OLA Red Maple Award, The IODE Violet Downey Book Award AND the MYRCA Northern Lights Book 2023 award.

Here's a longer blog post about the IODE nomination:
https://phdowding.blogspot.com/2022/0...

And a longer post about the MYRCA Northern Lights 2023 nomination:
https://phdowding.blogspot.com/2022/0...

Wow. I cannot tell you how amazing this is, no one expects this kind of success when they set out to write a book (you might dream of it though), and I'm really grateful to all the nominating committees and readers who have taken FIREFLY into their hearts. THANK YOU ALL!

And to top it all off, I just signed a feature film option for FIREFLY. It's been a pretty great few months. Thanks also to my terrific publisher, DCB Young Readers!

Keep reading, everyone!