{"id":535,"date":"2025-11-21T14:51:00","date_gmt":"2025-11-21T21:51:00","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/cjlavigne.com\/?p=535"},"modified":"2025-11-21T14:54:16","modified_gmt":"2025-11-21T21:54:16","slug":"2025-awards-eligibility","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/cjlavigne.com\/?p=535","title":{"rendered":"2025 Awards Eligibility"},"content":{"rendered":"\n<p>Hello! Should you be perusing works for 2025 awards, please consider my <strong>novella<\/strong>, THE DROWNED MAN&#8217;S DAUGHTER. Published by <a href=\"https:\/\/bookshop.newestpress.com\/collections\/barbour-books\/products\/the-drowned-mans-daughter\" data-type=\"link\" data-id=\"https:\/\/bookshop.newestpress.com\/collections\/barbour-books\/products\/the-drowned-mans-daughter\">NeWest Press<\/a> in September 2025.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p><em>Naia never wanted to be a goddess. But the legend of her as the miracle child of the ocean and a drowned man who washed up on the shore has overtaken her life, forcing her to lie to survive. Desperate to escape from the stalwart adoration of the people she loves, Naia longs to leave the island. But the ocean, filled with deadly mer, and the mainland, filled with noxious moss that drives anyone it touches to madness, block her way on either side.<\/em><\/p>\n\n\n\n<p><em>There\u2019s nowhere for Naia to go. She can\u2019t keep pretending, and soon she is going to be found out\u2026<\/em><\/p>\n\n\n<div class=\"wp-block-image\">\n<figure class=\"aligncenter size-large is-resized\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" width=\"649\" height=\"1024\" src=\"https:\/\/cjlavigne.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2025\/09\/Screenshot-2025-08-18-104232-649x1024.png\" alt=\"The cover for C. J. Lavigne's The Drowned Man's Daughter, featuring disembodied green eyes over a painted ocean. Designed by Michel Vrana.\" class=\"wp-image-519\" style=\"width:343px;height:auto\" srcset=\"https:\/\/cjlavigne.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2025\/09\/Screenshot-2025-08-18-104232-649x1024.png 649w, https:\/\/cjlavigne.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2025\/09\/Screenshot-2025-08-18-104232-190x300.png 190w, https:\/\/cjlavigne.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2025\/09\/Screenshot-2025-08-18-104232.png 697w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 649px) 100vw, 649px\" \/><\/figure>\n<\/div>","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Hello! Should you be perusing works for 2025 awards, please consider my novella, THE DROWNED MAN&#8217;S DAUGHTER. Published by NeWest Press in September 2025. Naia never wanted to be a goddess. But the legend of her as the miracle child of the ocean and a drowned man who washed up on the shore has overtaken her life, forcing her to lie to survive. Desperate to escape from the stalwart adoration of the people she loves, Naia longs to leave the island. But the ocean, filled with deadly mer, and the mainland, filled with noxious moss that drives anyone it touches to madness, block her way on either side. There\u2019s nowhere for Naia to go. She can\u2019t keep pretending, and soon she is going to be found out\u2026<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":217,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[4],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-535","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-awards-eligibility","ratio-2-1","entry"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/cjlavigne.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/535","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/cjlavigne.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/cjlavigne.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/cjlavigne.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/cjlavigne.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=535"}],"version-history":[{"count":3,"href":"https:\/\/cjlavigne.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/535\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":538,"href":"https:\/\/cjlavigne.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/535\/revisions\/538"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/cjlavigne.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/media\/217"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/cjlavigne.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=535"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/cjlavigne.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=535"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/cjlavigne.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=535"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}