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+<li>About the Cóyotl awards</li>
 <li>Best Short Story<ul>
 <li>Short stories are the heart of the furry writing world, it seems, and for good reason. It&rsquo;s nice to be able to tell something from start to finish in only a few thousand words, there&rsquo;s always a market for shorter works, and it&rsquo;s a good way to feel that sense of accomplishment when you finish.</li>
 <li>There are many different venues for short stories. Anthologies fill the furry publishing world, podcasts and magazines continue to thrive, and SoFurry remains a bustling hub of furry writing.</li>
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 <li>You can find the podcast at thevoice.dog</li>
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-<li>Best Novella</li>
+<li>Best Novella<ul>
-<li>Best Novel</li>
+<li>Novellas, sitting at that comfortable spot between short story and novel, are a convenient way to explore more themes than a short story night while also providing room for a brisker read and a faster pace of completion. In those 20-50k words, the author has enough space to create a fully fledged story with a broader cast of characters, a firmer sense of structure, and a more involved plot.</li>
+<li>With the growth of e-books, the novella has enjoyed something of a resurgence as a single longer work that might otherwise be too short on its own to be published in a paperback.</li>
+<li>This year, the nominees for best novella are:<ul>
+<li>Rightful Salvage by Frances Pauli</li>
+<li>What Makes a Witch by Linnea Capps</li>
+<li>Dude, Where&rsquo;s My Pack? by Kyell Gold</li>
+<li>and Soup of the Moment: A Tale of Barsk by Lawrence M. Schoen</li>
+</ul>
+</li>
+<li>I&rsquo;m pleased to announce that the 2020 Cóyotl Award for best novella goes to Rightful Salvage by Frances Pauli.</li>
+<li>A strange ship lands on Paris V, ten years after the plague world has been abandoned by all except one left behind General Labor android unit. All GL wants is to be free, but when the crew of the Sleuthstar discovers her stowed away on board, she&rsquo;s confronted by a trio of suspicious ursines and a very uncertain future. Can GL convince them to let her earn her passage? Can she find her place among the Sleuthstar&rsquo;s crew? At this point, she&rsquo;d settle for not being thrown out of the airlock.</li>
+<li>Frances writes furry novels and short stories and posts her work on social media under the name Mamma Bear. Her website is francespauli.com</li>
+<li>You can find Rightful Salvage on goalpublications.com, baddogbooks.com, and many other fine retailers.</li>
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+</li>
+<li>Best Novel<ul>
+<li>This brings us to our final award of the year, best novel.</li>
+<li>Novels are a big undertaking for just about everyone. It takes a lot of time, energy, planning, and attention to detail to pull together a story that spans tens or hundreds of thousands of words.</li>
+<li>This year, the nominees for best novel are:<ul>
+<li>Love Match (Book 3) by Kyell Gold</li>
+<li>Ritual of the Ancients (Changing Bodies: Book 1) by Ian Madison Keller</li>
+<li>Disbanded (Serpentia Book 1) by Frances Pauli</li>
+<li>A Wizard&rsquo;s Guide to Defensive Baking by T. Kingfisher</li>
+</ul>
+</li>
+<li>The 2020 Cóyotl Award for best novel goes to A Wizard&rsquo;s Guide to Defensive Baking by T. Kingfisher.</li>
+<li>Fourteen-year-old Mona isn’t like the wizards charged with defending the city. She can’t control lightning or speak to water. Her familiar is a sourdough starter and her magic only works on bread. She has a comfortable life in her aunt’s bakery making gingerbread men dance. But Mona’s life is turned upside down when she finds a dead body on the bakery floor. An assassin is stalking the streets of Mona’s city, preying on magic folk, and it appears that Mona is his next target. And in an embattled city suddenly bereft of wizards, the assassin may be the least of Mona’s worries…</li>
+<li>T. Kingfisher is the vaguely absurd pen-name of Ursula Vernon, an author from North Carolina. In another life, she writes children’s books and weird comics. She has been nominated for the World Fantasy and the Eisner, and has won the Hugo, Sequoyah, Nebula, Alfie, WSFA, Coyotl and Ursa Major awards, as well as a half-dozen Junior Library Guild selections. This is the name she uses when writing things for grown-ups. Her work includes multiple fairy-tale retellings and odd little stories about elves and goblins. When she is not writing, she is probably out in the garden, trying to make eye contact with butterflies.</li>
+<li>You can find A Wizard&rsquo;s Guide to Defensive Baking on argyllproductions.com and from many other fine booksellers.</li>
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+</li>
+<li>Wrapping up </li>
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