Thanks so much to Happy Mumsy Year! and Shanachie for judging! So honored to be on this list! And congrats to Chrys and Rojodi!

I'm really pleased my strange main character made the cut, because I went in worrying that I'd kinda ruined it before I began—I wasn't sure if I'd be able to interest readers in a character who remembered basically nothing at all about his recent life and how he'd come to be in his current situation. But I had a ton of fun writing it.