Short-List Love Times Six for Old House
Posted by I.A.M. in books, FantasyCon, Guy Adams, horror, LIT-O-RAMA, NEWSA bit odd celebrating the achievements of a publishing venture I’m no longer associated with, but the work of my fingers and mind-bones is still there in black-and-white, so there’s something. News of the following reached me awhile ago but as it’s only been announced now, I’ve kept my lips restrained.
The following books and heir contents have received short-list nominations for the 2008 British Fantasy Awards, with winners to be announced at the convention in September of this year in Nottingham, UK.
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Best Anthology: The 2ND Humdrumming Book of Horror Stories, Ian Alexander Martin, Editor |
| The August Derlith Fantasy Award for Best Novel: Rain Dogs, Gary McMahon |
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Best Novella: The Reach of Children, Tim Lebbon |
| Best Artist: Lee Thompson, cover artist for The Land at the End of the Working Day, by Peter Crowther |
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Best Short Fiction: “The Tobacconist’s Concession”, John Travis, appeared in The 2ND Humdrumming Book of Horror Stories Best Short Fiction: “Pinholes in Black Muslin”, Simon Strantzas, appeared in The 2ND Humdrumming Book of Horror Stories |
So, get out there! Vote early & vote often via the BFS site: CLICK THIS BIT HERE ! If you are a member of the British Fantasy Society or if you attended FantasyCon ’08 last September, then you are able to cast a vote to determine the winners in each category.
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Congratulamations!! Win, my man, win!!
Congrats! That’s great news. Do you need someone to pick up the tons of loot & give the speech ‘on behalf of’ ?
Thank you everyone. It seems unlikely that the one award which would come to me, the Best Anthology award, will actually be awarded to oneself (the rest of the categories are awarded to the writers named) given the other five anthologies which can be voted for. Not only has there not been much discussion of this my anthology, the sheer total number of copies of …Horror Stories distributed can’t be more than 100 total of both editions. Typically at this point copies of the book in PDF would be made available, but no-one is in in a position to distribute the book in toto as the copyrights to the individual stories have all reverted to the authors responsible.
This is the problem at any time: the votes for books rely on people having read them, and if you don’t shift enough copies you can’t expect to see much in awards as well. Sadly, I suspect that Mr. Lebbon’s novella will suffer the ignominious fate of anonymity; but I pray I’m wrong as it’s the finest thing I’ve read in quite some time.
I agree: “Reach” is quite possibly a nigh-on perfect novella.
Of course, you won’t win Best Anthology — the ginger-one will be netting that award!
I predict the same thing: Anthology Award for the Mackem Bastard.