Orbit & Harper Voyager Celebrate “The Heir of Night’s” Vogel Success; Plus, the “Grand Giveaway” Reminder!
I was very happy when I saw that Bella, my UK/AU/NZ publisher, posted about Heir’s Sir Julius Vogel Award success on the Orbit blog yesterday!
And now I’ve just seen that my US publisher, Harper Voyager, have featured it on their blog today as well, here—Kate is my US editor and she was absolutely delighted to hear about Heir’s success yesterday.
Writing is such a solitary business much of the time, with long periods of creative beavering away between largely work-related discussions with editors and agents, that I love the moments when we can all come together and share something exciting and fun. Awards very much fit that bill, which is why I was so thrilled to see both Bella and Kate’s posts. 🙂
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To read more about the Sir Julius Vogel Awards, click here; and here for the 2011 Sir Julius Vogel Award ceremony report. For more on ConText, the 32nd National Science Fiction Fantasy Convention where I was a guest of honour, click here.
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And the Reminder: “…on Anything Really’s” Grand Birthday Giveaway Still Running!
Just a reminder to you all that the Grand Giveaway to celebrate the first birthday of my “…On Anything, Really” blog is still running and will do so until 12 midnight NZ time on 30 June (that’s 2011—just to be absolutely clear! 😉 )
Just in case you weren’t already aware, here’s what’s happening:
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1. The period of the competition will be from 31 May to 30 June 2010 (NZ Time) inclusive;
2. Entries in the competition will be drawn from comments on distinct blog posts during that period: so each time you comment on a new post your name will be entered in the draw again—but only once for each distinct post. (For example: if you post one comment each on 10 distinct blog posts, your name will be entered in the draw 10 times; if you post 10 comments on 1 distinct blog post, your name will only be entered in the draw once.)
3. Three separate book sets are available to be won, each one to be drawn separately:
The Grand Epic Fantasy Giveaway Set, comprising:
- a signed UK, trade format first edition of The Heir of Night
- a hardback, anniversary edition of Sara Douglas’s Battle Axe
- Trudi Canavan’s The Ambassador’s Mission
- Ursula Le Guin’s Lavinia
- Neil Gaiman’s American Gods
The Grand YA Fantasy Giveaway Set comprising:
- a signed hardback copy of Thornspell
- Cassandra Clare’s complete Mortal Instruments trilogy: City of Bones, City of Ashes and City of Glass
- Rick Riordan’s Percy Jackson & The Lightning Thief
- Scott Westerfeld’s Leviathan
The Grand NZ Poetry Giveaway comprising:
- AUP New Poets: Harry Jones, Erin Scudder & Chris Tse
- Ingrid Horrocks’ Mapping the Distance
- Anna Livesey’s the moonmen
- Kerry Popplewell’s Leaving the Tableland
If you only wish to be entered in one of the draws, please enter the category you are interested in (e.g. Poetry; or YA Fantasy, or Epic Fantasy) by your name the first time you leave a comment.
The draw will be made on Saturday 2 July 2011 (NZ Time) using Random Number Integer.
All great giveaway sets.
I think so, too. 😉
The Realm also mentioned your success on their facebook page.
Thanks for drawing that to my attention, Jan (I know, I know, I “should” be on Facebook, too—like everything, I’m putting it off until after the book is finished! That’s 1 July by the way, folks.) Anyway, I think this is The Realm link, here.
Thanks for reminder to comment 🙂
I’ll probably keep reminding people about once a week, since they are quite ‘big’ prizes in giveaway terms! 🙂
I love it that everyone is celebrating with you :).
Gillian, it kind of feels like the party is still going on, which is really nice. And tomorrow I’ll be talking about Tales for Canterbury, which is another project I really want to see get lots of love.
Wow I think this is great that they are letting everyone know of your success.
Me too! And we ChCh gals still need all the ‘love’ we can get right now, with the earthquakes rumbling on—and on!
I’m so pleased for you, Helen, for the award. (I have no idea when I first made a comment and I can’t decide between the epic fantasy and YA giveaways, so I’m no help!)
You don’t have to ‘decide between’, Wen, if you’d be happy with either. I just figured that some folk might have most of the books in a set, or perhaps might want the poetry but not the fantasy or vice versa so I was trying to allow for choice and flexibility! 😉
That’s an awesome idea 😀 What awesome prizes!
Well, I did think so … ‘contemplates buying a bigger size in hats’! 😉
I love the post on the Orbit blog!
And…”Robin Hobb called this wonderful epic fantasy adventure ’a richly told tale of strange magic, dark treachery and conflicting loyalties, set in a well realized world. I can’t recommend it highly enough myself and suggest that you get right out and discover all the dark treachery-ness of it for yourselves! Happy reading.”
Can I just say…double WOW?! 😀
Please double WOW at will! 😉
Congratulations to you, Helen! It’s got to be thrilling! 🙂
This is a super fabulous contest!
I know the time scale is reasonably long—but I have set myself the target of finishing the WALL2 revision for 1 July, so 2 July is a super celebration with the draw being made that day!:)
Congrats Helen, your story is well deserving!
Thanks, Steve.:)
Wow what wonderful giveaways! Love the website 🙂
Glad you like, Nicola.:)
Fantastic giveaways !
I’m glad you think so, Darren.
Congratulations Helen an amazing acomplishment and no doubt it is nice getting the wonderful comments and after all your successful hard work. Well done Helen! 😉
Ooop I forgot to say YA Fantasy at the beginning….too excited congratulating you to watch my typing!