You hear it all the time. Well, you do if you follow award shows. “It’s an honour to be nominated”. Yeah, okay. It’s also pretty damn nice to win. And I did. Well, me and Clean Sweep did, the 2019 Eileen McTavish Sykes Award for Best New Book by a Manitoba Author! Here’s a slice of the release.

**May 8, 2019, Winnipeg MB: CORRECTION: In 2019, the Eileen McTavish Sykes Award was declared a tie by the jury who selected two recipients for the prestigious award for best first book by a Manitoba author. Due to a record-keeping error, only one recipient, Tasha Spillett, was announced at the event on May 3. The Manitoba Book Awards / Les Prix du livre du Manitoba is proud to announce that Clean Sweep by Michael J. Clark, published by ECW Press, was also selected as a recipient of the Eileen McTavish Sykes Award for Best Book by a Manitoba Author.

Woohoo! So go get one! And Mahoney’s Camaro drops May 28th! On sale now at McNally Robinson Grant Park Winnipeg!