The votes and in and counted. Rebecca LuElla Miller, chairman of the Clive Staples Award, announced the finalists and the winner this morning.
According to Rebecca, “The leading novel finished with 33% of the first place votes, 12% of the second place votes, and 5% of the third place votes, meaning that this book received votes on 50% of the ballots. The nearest other nomination received votes on 38% of the ballots.” Click here to read her full post.
And here are the top five. Click on the title to view the Novel Teen review of the book.
Number 5: Lunatic by Ted Dekker and Kaci Hill (Thomas Nelson). This is the fifth book in the Lost Books series, a young adult spin off series that takes place in the same storyworld as Ted Dekker’s Circle Books.
Number 4: By Darkness Hid by Jill Williamson (Marcher Lord Press). Yay! Yay! 🙂
Number 3: Curse of the Spider King by Wayne Thomas Batson and Christopher Hopper (Thomas Nelson).
Number 2: Vanishing Sculptor by Donita K Paul (WaterBrook/Multnomah).
Number 1: The 2010 Clive Staples Readers’ Choice Winner is Bones of Makaidos by Bryan Davis (AMG Publishers), book four in the Oracles of Fire series.
Congrats to you, Bryan!
My Novel Teen blog has not reviewed Bones of Makaidos, but you can read what others are saying on Amazon.com by clicking on this link. And click here to read my interview with author Bryan Davis.
I’ve also not read Ted Dekker’s Lunatic. I did read the first book in the series–Chosen–and reviewed it here. And you can click here to read about Lunatic on Amazon.com.
I think it’s awesome that ALL FIVE FINALISTS are novels written for teens. I’m honored to have been a finalist in this award. Congrats to all the nominees, the finalists, and to Bryan. And thanks for writing such wonderful clean books for teens to read.
Congratulations, Jill. I don’t know if you saw it or not, but By Darkness Hid actually had the second highest number of first place votes, but the need to consider 2nd and 3rd place votes to determine a winner brought it down a couple places. Still, a very nice showing!
Becky
Thank you, Becky. I didn’t see where it said who had what votes. Where was that posted?
I’m very happy to have landed in 4th place. Thanks for all your hard work on the award!
I wish BDH had won first, but oh well. Maybe when the series gets a lot of publicity from the upcoming trailer. 😉 I voted for BDH as first. 😀
Thanks, Leighton. I appreciate that. 🙂
I’m sure the trailer will be amazing. I’m so impressed with all your hard work so far.