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The Sir Julus Vogel Award
Last night The Heir of Night (Orbit) won the Sir Julius Vogel Award for Best Novel jointly with Lyn McConchie’s The Questing Road (Tor.) I’m still celebrating right now but I will bring you a fuller report on the awards ceremony and the convention later in the day. 🙂
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"A richly told tale" -- Robin Hobb
"A vividly imagined world" -- Juliet Marillier
"This is an author with a gift for fantasy” -- Catherine Asaro
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HEIR won the international Gemmell Morningstar Award 2012 for Best Fantasy Debut.
"THE HEIR OF NIGHT by Helen Lowe is a richly told tale of strange magic, dark treachery and conflicting loyalties, set in a well realized world."--Robin Hobb
Jacket art by Antonio Javier Caparo
Thornspell is my first novel and is published by Knopf (Random House Children's Books, USA). It won the Sir Julius Vogel Award 2009 for Best Novel: Young Adult and was a Storylines Childrens' Literature Trust Notable Book 2009.
Wooooooooot! Sending hugs and huge congratulations from the other side of the planet! 😀
Wow, this is GREAT news. Big congratulations!! 😀
Congratulationss!
Congratulations, Helen!! 🙂
Congratulations…
CONGRATULATIONS!!!!
That’s great news – congratulations. Well done sis.
Fantastic news! Congratulations, Helen! So well deserved 😀
Congratulations!
How exciting! Congratulations!! that is fabulous news!
Very well done, especially considering the strength of this year’s shortlist!
Congrats!!! Super cool.
That’s fantastic – well done!
Thank you all for your congratulations and support for “The Heir of Night”: the field was a very strong one so I was thrilled to be joint winner with Lyn. Congratulations to all my fellow winners as well.:)
That’s *such* wonderful news :). Well deserved and well done :).
Well done!!!
Congratulations Helen!
I am so happy dancing for you accross the ditch. Well deserved my sweets. 🙂
Gillian, Jacqui, HelenR, Tracey: thank you so much for the support & best wishes.:)
Helen – I’ve only just caught up with this excellent news! Am thrilled for you – congratulations!
Thank you so much, Claire—a nice end to a busy but also fun long weekend in Auckland.
Congratulations on being a Joint Winner in the Best Novel category.
Having done some reading for the nominations and voting, Yes – it was a strong field this year.
Congrats, Helen! And that is one gorgeous award!
Merrie—welcome: it’s so great to see you here! And the award is fabulous; very special.
… Anything Really readers: Merrie is one of my fellow Supernatural Underground authors from the States and her paranormal novel Afterlife debuted at the same time as The Heir of Night.
WOW! Congrats Helen! 😀 I’m so happy for you! 🙂
Thank you so much, Giada–and thank you, too, for all your ongoing enthusiasm and support.