“Jacob's Ladder” was short-listed (and “Day of Reckoning” was long-listed) for the 2007 Fish Short Story Prize (Ireland).
And just in case you were wondering . . .
The town of Faireville and its neighboring city, Gasberg, are completely fictional. All the places and things described within these two places are products of the author's imagination.
The city of Toronto, however, despite occasional claims to the contrary, is real, and most of the places and things described within it are also real (except in a few cases where the author has bent reality to suit his fictional purposes).
All of the characters in the book are in fact characters, meaning that they are products of the author's imagination and do not exist in the real world.
You can find out more about the author and the products of his imagination at:
www.richardscarsbrook.com
.
Richard Scarsbrook has had his fiction and poetry published in numerous literary journals, magazines, and anthologies.
Cheeseburger Subversive
, his first book in the Dak Sifter series, was a finalist for the 2004 CLA Young Adult Book Award, and was nominated for the Ontario Library Association's White Pine Award.
Featherless Bipeds
, the sequel to
Cheeseburger Subversive
, was short-listed for the 2007 CLA Young Adult Book of the Year Award and the 2009 Stellar Book Award. Scarsbrook lives in Toronto, Ontario.