{"id":11127,"date":"2012-01-16T06:30:46","date_gmt":"2012-01-15T17:30:46","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/helenlowe.info\/blog\/?p=11127"},"modified":"2012-02-09T08:05:02","modified_gmt":"2012-02-08T19:05:02","slug":"the-heir-of-night-nominated-for-the-uk-based-gemmell-awards","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/helenlowe.info\/blog\/2012\/01\/16\/the-heir-of-night-nominated-for-the-uk-based-gemmell-awards\/","title":{"rendered":"&#8220;The Heir of Night&#8221; Nominated For The UK-Based Gemmell Awards"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><a href=\"https:\/\/helenlowe.info\/blog\/2012\/01\/14\/all-the-pretty-covers\/heirofnight_no-foil-indd-5\/\" rel=\"attachment wp-att-11058\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"alignleft size-medium wp-image-11058\" title=\"HeirOfNight_no foil.indd\" src=\"https:\/\/helenlowe.info\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2012\/01\/Heir-of-Night-UK-front-cover-201x300.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"201\" height=\"300\" srcset=\"https:\/\/helenlowe.info\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2012\/01\/Heir-of-Night-UK-front-cover-201x300.jpg 201w, https:\/\/helenlowe.info\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2012\/01\/Heir-of-Night-UK-front-cover-100x150.jpg 100w, https:\/\/helenlowe.info\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2012\/01\/Heir-of-Night-UK-front-cover-686x1024.jpg 686w, https:\/\/helenlowe.info\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2012\/01\/Heir-of-Night-UK-front-cover.jpg 1833w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 201px) 100vw, 201px\" \/><\/a>I am delighted and honoured to announce that <em>The Heir of Night<\/em> has been nominated for the UK -based <a href=\"http:\/\/gemmellaward.com\/\">Gemmell Awards<\/a>, established to honour heroic fantasy author <strong>David Gemmell<\/strong>&#8212;and to celebrate excellence in the heroic\/epic fantasy genre that Gemmell exemplified through books such as <em><strong>Legend, Waylander<\/strong><\/em> and <em><strong>The Knights of Dark Renown, <\/strong><\/em>to name only a very few from amongst his body of work.<\/p>\n<p><em>The Heir of Night<\/em> has been nominated in two categories, the <a href=\"http:\/\/gemmellaward.com\/page\/2323348:Page:17503\">Legend Award for Best Fantasy Novel 2011<\/a>,\u00a0 and the <a href=\"http:\/\/gemmellaward.com\/page\/morningstar-1\">Morningstar Award for Best Fantasy Debut 2011<\/a>.<\/p>\n<p>The Gemmell Awards are reader voted, with voting links on the respective web pages&#8212;so for <em>The Heir of Night<\/em> to get\u00a0 through into the final round of shortlisted books is dependent on <span style=\"text-decoration: underline;\">your<\/span> support. So I am asking all my readers here, who feel they can in good conscience do so, to <strong>click on the following links and vote now for <em>&#8220;The Heir of Night<\/em>&#8220;. \ud83d\ude42<\/strong><\/p>\n<p><span style=\"color: #ffffff;\">.<\/span><\/p>\n<p>The <strong>Morningstar<\/strong> Award:\u00a0 to shortlist <em>The Heir of Night<\/em> for Best Fantasy Debut&#8212;<a href=\"http:\/\/www.gemmellaward.com\/page\/the-morningstar-award\"><strong>vote here<\/strong><\/a><\/p>\n<p><span style=\"color: #ffffff;\">.<\/span><\/p>\n<p>The <strong>Legend<\/strong> Award: to shortlist <em>The Heir of Night<\/em> for Best Fantasy Novel&#8212;<a href=\"http:\/\/www.gemmellaward.com\/page\/the-legend-award\"><strong>vote here<\/strong><\/a><\/p>\n<p><span style=\"color: #ffffff;\">.<\/span><\/p>\n<p>Although I know it involves voting twice, please do vote in both Award categories, as it would be wonderful if <em>The Heir of Night<\/em> could make a good showing amongst both the Morningstar&#8217;s\u00a0 &#8216;new names&#8217; and in the more &#8216;wide-open&#8217; Legend section&#8212;your vote will definitely count in both sections.<\/p>\n<p>And please do spread the word to anyone you know who may wish to vote and support <em>The Heir of Night<\/em> as well. \ud83d\ude42<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>I am delighted and honoured to announce that The Heir of Night has been nominated for the UK -based Gemmell Awards, established to honour heroic fantasy author David Gemmell&#8212;and to celebrate excellence in the heroic\/epic fantasy genre that Gemmell exemplified through books such as Legend, Waylander and The Knights of Dark Renown, to name only [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[17],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-11127","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-awards"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/helenlowe.info\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/11127","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/helenlowe.info\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/helenlowe.info\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/helenlowe.info\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/helenlowe.info\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=11127"}],"version-history":[{"count":21,"href":"https:\/\/helenlowe.info\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/11127\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":11636,"href":"https:\/\/helenlowe.info\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/11127\/revisions\/11636"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/helenlowe.info\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=11127"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/helenlowe.info\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=11127"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/helenlowe.info\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=11127"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}