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Showing posts with label David Gemmell Legend Award. Show all posts
Showing posts with label David Gemmell Legend Award. Show all posts
Hot off the press is this years announcement for the winners of the David Gemmell Legend Award and thier special announcement about next years ceremony. The information is as follows:
"This year’s David Gemmell Awards For Fantasy were presented tonight in a ceremony held at London’s Magic Circle headquarters.
The winners were: Ravenheart Award (best cover art): Raymond Swanland - Blood of Aenarion Morningstar Award (best debut): Helen Lowe - Heir of Night Legend Award (best novel): Patrick Rothfuss - The Wiseman's Fear
For further details, or to request photos of the ceremony, please reply to stanjnicholls@tiscali.co.uk or millerlau@clara.co.uk
2013: The Gemmell Awards and World Fantasy Convention
We were also pleased to announce this evening that next year’s Gemmell Awards ceremony will take place as part of 2013’s World Fantasy Convention.
The convention takes place in Brighton, UK between 31st October and 3rd November. The only other times that the World Fantasy Convention has moved outside North America was in 1988 and 1997, when it was staged in London, so we feel privileged to be a part of this prestigious international event.
Held at Brighton’s Metropole Hotel and the West Pier, WFC 2013 boasts an impressive line-up of honoured guests, including Richard Matheson, Richard Christian Matheson, Brian Aldiss, Alan Lee and Tessa Farmer. The Master of Ceremonies is China Mieville; and a host of other authors, artists, publishers and industry insiders will also be attending.
For full details of the convention visit the official website at http://wfc2013.org/
We hope to see as many of our regular attendees and supporters as possible at WFC 2013.
As the Gemmell Awards will be presented in October/November next year, and not in mid-June as usual, we’ll be altering our voting cycle to accommodate the change of date. To keep abreast of the changes check the awards website - http://gemmellaward.ning.com/ - where you can sign-up for our free newsletter. The change of venue and date is for one year only - 2014 will see the awards returning to the Magic Circle. "
Hail Mighty Readers, The David Gemmell Legend Award earlier announced thier shortlist for this years nominees. The list is as follows:
Legend Award The Heroes - Joe Abercrombie The Wise Mans Fear - Patrick Rothfuss Blood of Aenarion - Willian King Alloy of Law - Brandon Sanderson Black Veil - Kristen Britain
Morningstar Award Prince of Thorns - Mark Lawrence Among Thieves - Douglas Hulick The Unremembered - Peter ORulloan The Heir of Night - Helen Lowe Songs of the Earth - Elspeth Cooper
Ravenheart Award Blood of Aenarion - Raymond Swanland The Heroes - Didier Graffet and Dave Senior Oracles Fire - Frank Victoria Among Thieves - Larry Rostant Journey By Night - Aaron Briggs
Hail Mighty Readers, The David Gemmell Legend Award has let us know about some of thier very tasty auction items that you can prebid on before the award night. The lots so far are:
1) A one-to-one workshop, on your manuscript, with Jo Fletcher, the exceptional editor and publisher! Kindly donated by Jo Fletcher. Bids start at £20. Retail price: priceless
2) A stunning signed, framed Edward Miller print of THE EXTRAORDINARY VOYAGE OF JULES VERNE, measuring 31 x 24 inches. Kindly donated by Les Edwards. Bids start at £20. Retail price: £150
3) An exclusive Orbit Books bag filled with the complete DRESDEN FILES series of thirteen books by Jim Butcher. Kindly donated by Orbit Books. Bids start at £20. Retail price: £120
4) A cameo in Scott Lynch’s forthcoming novel THE THORN OF EMBERLAIN. Escape a horrible death by the narrowest of margins! Kindly donated by Scott Lynch. Bids start at £20. Retail price: priceless!
5) A bottle of Laurent-Perrier Champagne and two LEGEND AWARD champagne glasses. Kindly donated by Gollancz. Bids start at £20. Retail price: priceless!
6) Two tickets to the GOLLANCZ 50TH PARTY – the genre publishing event of the year. Invitees include famous genre authors, agents and editors. Kindly donated by Gollancz. Bids start at £20. Retail price: priceless!
7) A gold chalet (for 6 people!) at the SFX Weekender, taking place in Prestatyn from 2nd-5th February 2012! Kindly donated by SFX. Bids start at £20. Retail price: £690
8) A one-of-a kind print of THE ROGUE cover, framed and signed by Trudi Canavan. Kindly donated by Orbit Books. Bids start at £20. Retail price: priceless!
9) The DGLA ‘lawn sign’. Signed by every author, artist and genre big-wig who attends the award ceremony! The perfect momento of a perfect award ceremony. Kindly donated by the DGLA. Bids start at £20. Retail price: priceless!
10) An exclusive, framed, signed pencil sketch original of DRUSS THE LEGEND by Didier Graffet. Kindly donated by Didier Graffet. Bids start at £20. Retail price: priceless
If interested mail Christine with your maximum bid at:
christineharrison_007@hotmail.com
Online bidding closes at 6pm on Thursday 16th June 2011. So get in quick.
Hail Mighty Readers, Well we heard through out contacts that last years tickets became the equivalent of Gold Dust so as such, we've just heard that they're available now through Christine at the DGLA.
The event is set for the 17th June 2011 at London's Magic Circle where the new people's champion of fantasy will be crowned. Information to date lets us know to obtain your ticket you have to mail Christine at: christineharrison_007@hotmail.com
Tickets are sold on a first come first served basis and are priced rather cheaply at £20 each, thats a real cheap night out, especially in London.
Hail Mighty Readers, Well you voted in your thousands and for those lucky enough to have attended Eastercon you'll already know who made it. For those of us with the Bank Holiday Blues here is how it played out in Alphabetical Order:
Legend Award - Best Fantasy Novel BRETT, Peter V - The Desert Spear (Voyager) HEITZ, Markus - War the Dwarves (Orbit UK/US) JORDAN, Robert and SANDERSON, Brandon - Wheel of Time: Towers of Midnight (Orbit UK/Tor US) PEVEL, Pierre - The Alchemist in the Shadows (Gollancz) SANDERSON, Brandon - The Way of Kings (Gollancz/Tor US) WEEKS, Brent - The Black Prism (Orbit UK/US)
Morningstar Award - Best Debut CHARLTON, Blake - Spellwright (Tor US) HINKS, Darius - Warrior Priest (The Black Library) JEMISIN, N.K. - The Hundred Thousand Kingdoms (Orbit UK/US) PEHOV, Alexey - Shadow Prowler (Tor US) VICTORIA, Mary - Tymon’s Flight (Harper Collins Australia)
Ravenheart Award - Best Fantasy Art Cover EINARSDOTTIR, Olof Erla - Power & Majesty (Harper Collins Australia) LOCKWOOD, Todd - The Ragged Man (Pyr) NIELSEN, Cliff - The Hundred Thousand Kingdoms (Orbit) SULLIVAN, Jon - Shadow King (The Black Library) VICTORIA, Frank - Tymon’s Flight (HarperCollins Australia)
Congratulations to all the shortlist and we wish you the best of luck. Voting opens Monday 2nd May 2011,
Hail Mighty Readers, The David Gemmell Legend Award has announced the winners of this years tough competition. After a lot of voting the choices came down as:
Ravensheart Award: Best Served Cold – Didier Graffet, Dave Senior and Laura Brett. For the shortlist poll there were votes from 64 different countries, with the top voters being from the USA and the UK.
Morningstar Award: The Cardinal’s Blades by Pierre Pevel. For the shortlist poll there were votes from 34 different countries, with the top voters being from the USA France and the UK.
Legend Award: Empire by Graham McNeill. For the shortlist poll there were votes from 91 different countries, with the top voters being from the USA, the UK, France and Canada.
Congratulation to the winners and of course to those who made it to the second round. These were (all book nommed links to our reviews where possible):
Hail Mighty Readers, Just to let you all know that the David Gemmell Shortlist has been announced: RAVENHEART Jon Sullivan - The Cardinals Blades - Pierre Pevel - Gollancz Jackie Morris - The Dragon Keeper - Robin Hobb - Harper Collins - Gollancz Didier Graffett and Dave Senior - Best Served Cold - Joe Abercrombie - Gollancz Larry Rostant - Fire - Kristin Cashore - Gollancz Jon Sullivan - Empire - Graham McNeill - Black Library
MORNINGSTAR Stephen Deas- The Adamantine Palace - Gollancz Jesse Bullington - The Sad Tales of the Brothers Grossbart - Orbit Amanda Downum - The Drowning City - Orbit Pierre Pevel - The Cardinal's Blades - Gollancz Ken Scholes - Lamentation - Tor US
LEGEND Brandon Sanderson - Warbreaker - Tor US Pierre Pevel - The Cardinal's Blades - Gollancz Graham McNeill - Empire - Black Library Joe Abercrombie - Best Served Cold - Gollancz and Orbit Robert Jordan and Brandon Sanderson - The Gathering Storm - Tor US
We wish everyone the best of luck and to cast your vote for your favourite to be revealed at the Ceremony in June held at the Magic Circle in London please visit the website: David Gemmell Legend Award.
Hail Mighty Readers, Orbit are proud to announce the publication of the 25th Anniversary Edition of Legend, the title that brought David Gemmell to the reading public.
Whilst the title isn't going to be a hardback which a number of fans wanted, the PB works out better as it keeps the celebratory feel of David's writing, well within the fan's pockets so many can get to relive that first adventure with Druss, Regnak, Virae and the Thirty as they battle against the Nadir Horde of Ulric.
Originally written "while waiting for cancer tests. I did not expect the story ever to be published, and literally chose the name Drenai because it sounded similar to Dorsai, which came from a series of books by Gordon R Dickson. These were splendid sci fi novels about a warrior race." said David and when asked why a large number of fans have always picked this as thier favourite he had to think for a while before letting us know his answer.
"Hard to say. It is my favourite. It is certainly the most romantic of all my novels, both in central love story, and the high heroism of the contenders. I guess it was written by a young man, full of ideals and beliefs, who approached the craft of story telling with a wild, barbaric gusto. I look back on that young man with great fondness."
So now's your chance to get this special edition. Join us on October 1st, raise a glass to David and enjoy this epic tale in its new edition.
Remember that the David Gemmell Legend Award is in its second year so please join the fun and vote for your fan favourites as well as joining the discussions.
(Quotes taken from interviews conducted by myself which appear on Wolfshead, a David Gemmell fansite.)
The David Gemmell Legend Award Ceremony turned out to be a night of glamour, fun and surprises, even though it all started in a strangely deserted London back street on the evening of June 19th.
I'd been standing on the corner by Euston station trying to get orientated on my map when a very nice taxi driver – sitting at the lights – leaned out of his cab and asked me where I was headed. I gave him the address and he gave me turn-perfect directions to the Magician's Guild Headquarters straight off the top of his head. Oooh they are good aren't they?!
Following his instructions I found myself on this eerily quiet little backstreet while the rest of London bustled manically on all sides. There weren't many doors onto the street and it took a few minutes to find the Guild entrance but once into its plush interior, it was like stepping into another world.
You kind of expect the Magician's Guild Headquarters to have hidden secrets somehow, and it did. Inside this bland looking building there were at least two bars, a host of magical paraphernalia lining the walls and, most strikingly, via an upstairs doorway you descended down into a large and sumptuous auditorium with a full stage and room for nearly two hundred people. And I'm sure this was only a fraction of the facilities.
David Bradley and Stuart Galbraith
The upstairs bar was the first destination and the dignitaries were starting to gather. The dress code for the event was formal evening wear and it was great to see everyone in smart attire. The guys were swanning around the room like little James Bond clones and the gals were gliding elegantly from one gathering to another, draped in glamorous flowing colours and sparkling sequins.
There were representatives from several aspects of the publishing industry: the bubbly publicity reps who seemed to know everyone in the room; the senior editors with their serious faces; a whole range of talented authors; a rabble of reviewers and interviewers from all sorts of websites and magazines; and the all important fans, in whose hands the award voting had been placed. For that was why we were all there, in the Guild Headquarters - to find out who was to be the lucky recipient of the David Gemmell Legend Award.
Until now, the UK has only had one major set of Fantasy awards, given out each year by the British Fantasy Society (BFS), and those are voted on by members of the BFS. Thanks to the hard work of fantasy authors Debbie Miller, Stan Nicholls, Anne Nicholls, James Barclay and dedicated support crew for admin and webmastering, the UK now has a new award that is voted on by fans worldwide. So not only does the award give the public an opportunity to shout about their favourite fiction but in promoting excellent fantasy it also honours the name of author David Gemmell, one of the best selling fantasy authors ever.
DGLA Shortlist:
Blood Of Elves - Andrzej Sapkowski
The Hero Of Ages – Brandon Sanderson
The Way Of Shadows - Brent Weeks
The Last Argument Of Kings - Joe Abercrombie
Heir To Sevenwaters - Juliet Marillier
The winner of the award was to be picked from the impressive shortlist shown and it was proving to be difficult to predict who was going to come out on top. Much debate was had over glasses of wine as the growing crowd gathered in that bar before we were invited into the auditorium area. When the melodious tone of the gong rang out, we were ushered to the comfortable seats and the ceremony began.
But this wasn't going to be a simple case of introducing the shortlisted stories and wheeling someone important in to announce the winner. Oh no, this was going to be much more fun.
Charity Auction Items:
A year's subscription to SFX magazine. (Donated by Future Publishing.)
A "Forsaken skirt". (Donated by Moon Maiden Gothic Clothing.)
A limited edition Valyrien bust of "Sandor Clegane - The Hound of Lannister" (only 500 made). (Donated by HarperCollins.)
A fantasy sword. (Donated by Forbidden Planet.)
A chance to make a cameo appearance in Orcs: Bad Blood 3: Inferno, by Stan Nicholls. (Donated by author.)
Own a Jaguar for a weekend. (Donated by Jaguar Cars.)
A first hardback edition of Legend, signed by David Gemmell and from his personal library. (Donated by Stella Gemmell.)
Opening the show, author (and trained actor) James Barclay gave a rousing rendition of 'A Call To Arms' from David Gemmell's Legend; this was followed by an introduction to the award by Stan Nicholls and Debbie Miller, a heartfelt remembrance of David Gemmell by Anne Nicholls and an introduction to the charity Medecins Sans Frontieres. This later intro may seem a little unusual but what followed was an auction on behalf of the charity and there were some very desirable items coming up for grabs. James Barclay did an awesome job separating people from their money (no easy feat in these times of recession) and when the last item went under the hammer, the award had raised nearly £1200 for the charity.
Next, it was time to present the nominees with their own little prize – they each received a baby Druss the Legend Snaga axe – which you can see Joe Abercrombie modelling so well on the left. These were so sweet (the axes that is, although Joe has his moments too) but there was better to come. After each of the nominees (or their representatives) had accepted their baby Snaga, the winner's axe itself was brought onto the stage by Simon Fearnhamm of Raven Armoury. It was a larger, quite beautiful Snaga clearly forged with much love and attention. So with half the audience drooling in admiration over the trophy and amid promises from Simon to show everyone the full-size Snaga later in the bar, Alain Nevant of Bragelonne publishers, and Kate and Luke Gemmell announced the winner.
And the winner was: Andrzej Sapkowski for Blood Of Elves
Rapturous applause from the crowd.
The award was accepted by Gollancz publisher's Jo Fletcher but Sapkowski's reaction would later be circulated via email:
"I am very happy and proud to be a winner in the contest for The David Gemmell Legend Award, the prize precious to me indeed, as I am a great admirer of the writings of the late David A. Gemmell. I would like to express my gratitude to all the readers who voted for my book. I would also like to thank and congratulate all the other fellow writers in the final poll. Finally, it is fantasy - our genre - that was the ultimate winner."
And from there the happy masses dispersed to various drinking locations around London to continue the celebrations long into the night…
