The Gemmell “Ravenheart” Award for Best Cover Art—“Oracle’s Fire” & “Journey By Night” Make the Shortlist
Yesterday, when I talked about The Heir of Night, The Wall of Night Book One making the shortlist for the international Gemmell Morningstar Award for Best Fantasy Newcomer I omitted to mention one small but important fact—not only am I the only New Zealander on the shortlist, I am also the only Southern Hemisphere author in either the Legend or Morningstar categories.
But it’s a different story in the Ravenheart Award for Best Fantasy Book Jacket. There are two Southern Hemisphere book covers/artists who have made it through to the final there—and best of all (from my point of view) the authors of the shortlisted books are both friends of mine so I can really rejoice in their success!
The Gemmell “Ravenheart” Award for Best Fantasy Book Jacket
Without further ado, the two Southern Hemisphere contenders for this award are (in alphabetical order by artist & book title :)):
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Aaron Briggs for the cover of Kim Falconer’s Journey By Night (Harper Voyager Australia)
Just for the record, Aaron Briggs is Kim’s son, so she also gets to be a proud Mum!
And in very recent news, Kim has had another book, Road To The Soul, shortlisted for the Norma K Hemming Award 2012 “for excellence in the exploration of themes of race, gender, sexuality, class and disability in the form of science fiction and fantasy or related artwork or media produced either in Australia or by Australian citizens.”
Very well done, Kim!
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Frank Victoria for the cover of Mary Victoria’s Oracle’s Fire (Harper Voyager, Australia)
And Frank is not only the cover artist, but also the husband of Oracle’s Fire author, Mary Victoria. (Hmm–could I be detecting a trend here? 😉 )
Also in further recent good news, both Oracle’s Fire and its prequel, Samiha’s Song, are shortlisted for the Sir Julius Vogel Award 2012 for Best Novel.
While Frank Victoria is in the running for the Sir Julius Vogel Award 2012 for Best Professional Artwork—an award category he won last year for the cover of Tymon’s Flight.
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Now comes the hard part—in terms of the Gemmell Ravenheart Award, we shall have to decide which cover to vote for!
A difficult decision—but one that I hope you will want to make for one of these two excellent covers!
To vote: Click Here
Then click again in the circle above the name of the Artist – Book Title for the Cover you would like to win the Gemmell Ravenheart Award.
Easy-peasy: but I do hope you will take just a few seconds now and vote!
Helen, it’s such an honour to be short listed for the David Gemmell Awards! I LOVE that the three of us are representing the Southern Hemisphere AND remember when we all met up at WordCon/AussieCon in 2010? 🙂 I was sick, Mary excited and you were the guide that kept us from wandering lost in the streets of Melbourne! Ha!
And yes, I am incredibly proud of my son!
Thank you for the congrats on the Norma K Hemming short list. I’m still welling up every time I say that!
Hi Kim, *I know* re the three of us hanging out together at Aussiecon4 and then all being together in the Gemmells lineup for books published the subsequent year, & as the Southern Hemisphere reps as well, seems very serendipitous. Seredipitous coincidence! 🙂
The Norma K Hemming shortlisting is tremendous as well—exciting times all round!
Yay yay yay! This is a good day.
Gosh I remember that fateful night, Kim… you were so sick, you poor thing. Now however you get to party like it’s, um, 2012… 🙂
It is 2012—but I definitely recall wandering through what seemed like the world’s most enormous casino/entertainment centre looking for the Voyager party and even though I had reconnoitered the territory during the day it all seemed entirely different—and bewildering— when packed to the gunwhales with people! But I gather that such places in the US are on an entirely different scale again…
Yes, the casino was an interesting juxtaposition, I thought. 😀
just to let you know that Rangiora library has all your books, and today I advised them that they should do something to support such wonderful local talent and that you were up for an award. I hope this encourages them to create a feature of your work. Jacqui B
Thank you so much for your support, Jacqui—that is wonderful! And would be so lovely if they ‘came on board’ and ‘got in behind.’ 🙂