{"id":12239,"date":"2012-03-11T06:30:09","date_gmt":"2012-03-10T17:30:09","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/helenlowe.info\/blog\/?p=12239"},"modified":"2012-03-10T17:11:26","modified_gmt":"2012-03-10T04:11:26","slug":"celebrating-friends-successes","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/helenlowe.info\/blog\/2012\/03\/11\/celebrating-friends-successes\/","title":{"rendered":"Celebrating Friends’ Successes"},"content":{"rendered":"

Perhaps this blog post should just be “celebrating friends” because friends, after all, are pretty important in this life. But in fact the title is correct: what I am specifically celebrating is friend’ recent successes, and more specifically again, those enjoyed by fellow writers.<\/p>\n

Because recently several friends-in-writing have enjoyed some good ‘wins.’<\/p>\n

\"\"<\/a>\"\"<\/a>Firstly, I’ve mentioned the Gemmell Awards<\/a> a couple of times, here<\/a> and here<\/a>, mainly in terms of The Heir of Night’s<\/em> nomination for both the Morningstar<\/a> and Legend<\/a> Awards. The Legend Award<\/strong> is for the Best Fantasy Novel<\/strong> (in the heroic\/epic subgenre) published in English in 2011—and both my friends’ Mary Victoria <\/a>and Kim Falconer<\/a> have not one but two books longlisted for this award. Mary’s books are Samiha’s Song<\/em> and Oracle’s Fire<\/em> from her Chronicles of the Tree trilogy, while Kim’s novels are from her Quantum Encryption series: Journey by Night<\/em> and Road to the Soul<\/em>. But not one but two novels in the longlist for the Legend Award: I think that’s a fairly awesome achievement!<\/p>\n

The NZ Post Children’s Book Awards<\/a>‘<\/strong> shortlist was also released recently and several friends featured:<\/p>\n

\"\"<\/a>James Norcliffe—who wrote a guest post here<\/a> on “Why FSF Rocks”<\/strong> in 2010—has\u00a0 The Loblolly Boy & The Sorcerer<\/em> (Random House) shortlisted in the Junior Fiction category; while<\/p>\n

\"\"<\/a>Jane Higgins’ The Bridge<\/strong><\/em> (Text Publishing) and Joanna Orwin’s Sacrifice<\/strong><\/em> (HarperCollins) are both contenders for the Young Adult award.<\/p>\n

\"\"<\/a>Jane is also a guest at the Writers and Readers<\/a> component of the NZ International Arts Festival<\/a> this weekend, appearing in two events: Christchurch Quakes–Changing Everything<\/em><\/a> and with Bernard Beckett in Terrific Characters: Dystopian Worlds<\/em><\/a>. And I was rather chuffed when Jane asked if she could read my poem Storm Front <\/em>(posted here<\/a>) as part of the Christchurch Quakes event.<\/p>\n

\"\"<\/a>Now speaking of Awards–the nomination period for the Sir Julius Vogel Awards<\/a> is still open until 31 March and all<\/strong><\/span> the books mentioned above—except for Kim’s Falconer’s two works, Kim being an Aussie ‘n’ all—are eligible for nomination. I really would urge you to read these books if you haven’t already and to consider nomination–not just for these books but for all those on the “eligible” list, here<\/a>.<\/p>\n

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Perhaps this blog post should just be “celebrating friends” because friends, after all, are pretty important in this life. But in fact the title is correct: what I am specifically celebrating is friend’ recent successes, and more specifically again, those enjoyed by fellow writers. Because recently several friends-in-writing have enjoyed some good ‘wins.’ Firstly, I’ve […]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[14],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-12239","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-other-writers"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/helenlowe.info\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/12239","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=12239"}],"version-history":[{"count":17,"href":"https:\/\/helenlowe.info\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/12239\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":12280,"href":"https:\/\/helenlowe.info\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/12239\/revisions\/12280"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/helenlowe.info\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=12239"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/helenlowe.info\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=12239"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/helenlowe.info\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=12239"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}