{"id":59,"date":"2009-03-10T22:39:51","date_gmt":"2009-03-11T03:39:51","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/passarella.com\/blog\/?p=59"},"modified":"2009-03-10T22:42:17","modified_gmt":"2009-03-11T03:42:17","slug":"bad-ass-faeries-wins-eppie-award","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"http:\/\/www.passarella.com\/blog\/59\/bad-ass-faeries-wins-eppie-award\/","title":{"rendered":"Bad-Ass Faeries Wins Eppie Award"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><!--[if gte mso 9]><xml> <w :WordDocument> <\/w><w :View>Normal<\/w> <w :Zoom>0<\/w> <w :TrackMoves \/> <w :TrackFormatting \/> <w :PunctuationKerning \/> <w :ValidateAgainstSchemas \/> <w :SaveIfXMLInvalid>false<\/w> <w :IgnoreMixedContent>false<\/w> <w :AlwaysShowPlaceholderText>false<\/w> <w :DoNotPromoteQF \/> <w :LidThemeOther>EN-US<\/w> <w :LidThemeAsian>X-NONE<\/w> <w :LidThemeComplexScript>X-NONE<\/w> <w :Compatibility> <w :BreakWrappedTables \/> <w :SnapToGridInCell \/> <w :WrapTextWithPunct \/> <w :UseAsianBreakRules \/> <w :DontGrowAutofit \/> 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src=\"http:\/\/www.passarella.com\/images\/BadAssFaeries2_125w.jpg\" alt=\"BAD-ASS FAERIES 2: Just Plain Bad\" width=\"125\" height=\"198\" \/>Bad-Ass Faeries 2: Just Plain Bad<\/a> in which my story &#8220;Twilight Crossing&#8221; appears just won the Eppie Award for Best Anthology over this past weekend.<\/p>\n<p>Pretty cool!<\/p>\n<p>Here&#8217;s the list of winners &amp; nominees:<br \/>\n<a title=\"Eppie Award Winners 2009\" href=\"http:\/\/www.epicauthors.com\/eppiewinners2009.html\" target=\"_blank\">http:\/\/www.epicauthors.com\/eppiewinners2009.html<\/a><\/p>\n<p>Follow me on Twitter and get my stroy, RED FRIDAY &#8212; about Christmas shoppers and rampaging zombies. 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