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Nice

Geez, but she's beautiful.

That award is very shiny 😍

Obviously you need to do the Dave Barry thing and wear it around your neck to your reunions.

Congratulations John. Thank you for the work you do. It has given me hours apon hours of joy

Did it… fly there!?

I always tell my friends that you’re the G(L)OAT.

I mean, "why are trolls?" ...I wish I knew, too.

Thank you!

Some people say these things to shore up their own inferiority, others just get off on being despicable a-holes, and some do it for both reasons... Lovely world we live in, hunh?

Ahhh, JUSTICE

"Long ago, a teacher told me I'd never sell a word of my writing. Many years and many manuscripts later, I'm proud to announce that that teacher has died." (Not mine, but though it seemed relevant)

When I was studying poetry with Frances Mayes back in the early 1990s she asked why we students were all there. After getting the usual statements about artistic expression and etc., she asked - in her inimitable Southern accent - “How about revenge? <long pause> That’s a good reason to write.”

selling well is the best revenge

Spite remains the single most potent fuel in the entire literary industry.

I’ll see your neener neener and raise you a boo-boo 😉

Do you have an award shelf/wall or are they scattered about the abode? If the former, can we get a picture?

A very well deserved award! I love your books. That man is a bully and is sorely lacking in good taste.

Congratulation! Looks like you might make it at this writing thing.

Success for doing what you want, not what they want! Inspirational

Well-deserved!

Old Man's War is a fantastic book!

Congratulations! Well Deserved! :D

Excellent.

👏👏👏

'Fuck you', is a serious motivator. After 'love', it's the next most thing. And it's very nice to twist the knife. It feels real good.

Congratulations for your award! 📖🎉🎉

As well as they ever have

Go, you!

Congrats!!

Very pretty award. Congratulations

Be secret and exult, Because of all things known That is most difficult.

Hey, nice!

Congratulations!

Congrats!!

Kudos to all those that have surpassed the expectations others had for you and can now rub their faces in it.

an impressive feat for having never sold a novel!

They must be seething

The best form of revenge.

Congratulations! Well-earned, and 'fuck you' to that unknown writer.

They are not Bluesky as far as I know so I don't imagine they will see it, and if they do, well, I wish them joy.

Congrats! Success is the best revenge.

Congratulations

A well-deserved victory lap (with appropriate burnout in front of the nay-sayer).

Nice!👏👏👏

Congratulations! Which of your books would you recommend to someone who has never read your work? It could be your favorite (for whatever reason), the one you think contains your best writing, or the one that is most “you.”

Really? An award? For "When the moon hits your eye"? That one? Wow... /s "The best revenge is massive success" - Frank Sinatra Hehe, congratulations!

That's awardé!

Congratulations (oddly enough I was just thinking about a writer that said the same of me. He was wrong)

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Well, maybe you'll never sell ANOTHER one! What about that, huh? (Um, except I've already preordered your next book. And if Amazon offered it, I'd subscribe to get every future book of yours as they came out. But maybe it would just be that one copy of each new book sold!)

Congratulations 🥰

The variation I've heard on that is "Success is the best revenge." It gives me a lot of comfort when I think of people who tried to do me harm or hold me back early in life.

Congrats! And of course, well deserved.

Awesome! And, it was an enjoyable read.

yay!

So... would we call this an Astra ad?