The David Gemmell Legend Award is now open for voting. I have been nominated to the long list. “The award will be given to a work written in the ‘spirit’ of the late, great David Gemmell, a true Master of Heroic Fantasy.” From the website (and Gemmell’s obituary): “Characterisation is acknowledged as one of Gemmell’s major skills, and… [...]
Archive for December 2008
The Best-of-the-Year Lists Begin…
Civilian Reader has selected its annual 10 Best Fiction Releases of 2008 (in all genres), and I’m delighted to report that they have chosen my books. Thrice. For spots 3, 2, and yes, #1. Woo hoo! The Night Angel books “take the top spot because they fulfill every criteria that goes into making an excellent read: [...]
Fan Art Contest Winner
The winner of the Fan Art Contest is Meaghan Beninati with this cool rendition of Vi in Caernarvon: (Click to enlarge) Congratulations, Meaghan. (Check her website for other cool stuff.) Great work. I wish I had half of your talent. You will be receiving a signed set of the Night Angel Trilogy, made out [...]
Indie Next Pick
Indie Bound is a site organized by independent booksellers to help them better compete with the biggies, and foster all the independent-bookstore goodness you can imagine. I just learned learned recently that I was selected as an Indie Next Pick of the Month. (For November, but hey, I just found out.) Peeps in the industry tell me [...]
Geeks Rejoice!
There’s this guy, invented a little operating system called Linux. Name’s Linus Torvalds, “the world’s most famous computer programmer.” He dug my trilogy. (Or should that be Dugg?) True, I’ve received higher praise than HIS, but still…
