Representative Lauren Boebert is a lot of things. She’s a mom of four, married to a fella who only exposed himself to minors at a bowling alley that one time. She’s a failed internet model turned small business owner, running a restaurant known more for its defiant political positions and its merch! than its food. She’s also a gun fetishist, a Q-Anon sympathizer, a Trump worshipper and the U.S. House representative from Colorado’s 3rd Congressional District.
What she’s not is a trademark and copyright attorney. Or, apparently, good with things like details and deadlines.
The early ’90s might not seem that long ago to some of us, but it’s been thirty years since America launched the Hubble telescope,
Terminator 2 topped the box office, and C&C Music Factory was insisting it was “Gonna Make You Sweat,” much to the delight of every cardio class since. And it was in this fertile ground that the seeds for the Colorado Book Awards were planted.
In the years since, Coloradans have been invited to partake in an annual celebration of local literature, whether that means a book set in our state or one written by a writer who calls Colorado home.
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The Edgar Award, as Denver author and Edgar finalist David Heska Wanbli Weiden puts it, is “like the Oscars for crime writers. It’s like our National Book Award.” So it was a big deal when Weiden’s thriller
Winter Counts was shortlisted. It’s an even bigger deal that he’s only the second Native American writer to be named a finalist in the prize’s storied history.
Not that the Edgars are the only organization recognizing Weiden’s work far from it. He’s already won a Lefty Award for Best Debut Novel, and the Western Writers of America presented his book with the Best Contemporary Novel and Best Debut Novel awards. Still pending is a cornucopia of other awards: the Barry, the Thriller, a Colorado Book Award, a Reading the West prize, and the VCU Cabell First Novelist Award. Weiden is going to be busy and he might want to be making space on his fireplace mantel for all those pen-shaped trophies and whatnot.