I am thrilled to share that Beyond the Bukubuk Tree is the 2024 Storytrade Book Award Winner for the LGBTQ Category. Congratulations too to the superb winners and finalists in other categories. Thankyou Storytrade. I am very grateful.
Storytrade’s award supplements the novel’s earlier awards from The International Firebird Book Award for War Fiction in 2023 and the recent Literary Titan Gold Book Award for Fiction.
Based on reader and industry reviews, the setting in Australia and Rabaul, Papua New Guinea, seems to be appealing. If I can interest northern hemisphere readers in explorin the fascinatingg Rabaul and Papua New Guinea I’ll be very happy.
Infinite thanks to colleagues and friends who helped me birth the tale.
