{"id":12675,"date":"2012-03-31T06:30:15","date_gmt":"2012-03-30T17:30:15","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/helenlowe.info\/blog\/?p=12675"},"modified":"2012-03-31T00:45:17","modified_gmt":"2012-03-30T11:45:17","slug":"last-chance-to-dance-the-gemmell-awards-the-sir-julius-vogels-both-close-today","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/helenlowe.info\/blog\/2012\/03\/31\/last-chance-to-dance-the-gemmell-awards-the-sir-julius-vogels-both-close-today\/","title":{"rendered":"Last Chance to Dance: The Gemmell Awards & the Sir Julius Vogels Both Close Today!"},"content":{"rendered":"
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The Heir of Night UK--nominated for the Gemmell Awards<\/p><\/div>\n

Which means, in fact, that it is the last chance to vote and nominate respectively–but you can dance too if you want too. \ud83d\ude09 I’ll certainly be doing a happy dance if I make it to the next round of either category in the Gemmell Awards!<\/p>\n

About the Gemmell Awards<\/strong><\/p>\n

If you don’t know about the Gemmell Awards yet, here’s the deal. The awards were established to honour heroic fantasy author David Gemmell<\/strong> and celebrate excellence in the heroic\/epic fantasy genre. This year, The Heir of Night<\/em> has been nominated in two categories, the Legend Award for Best Fantasy Novel 2011<\/a>,\u00a0 and the Morningstar Award for Best Fantasy Debut 2011<\/a>.<\/p>\n

Getting through to the next shortlist round is reader voted—so given some of those big names on the Legend long list, obviously I need all the support I can muster! So if you enjoyed\u00a0\u201cThe Heir of Night<\/em>“<\/strong> and feel you can in good conscience do so, then please take this last chance to vote for it by clicking now on the following links:<\/strong><\/p>\n

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The Morningstar<\/strong> Award:\u00a0 to shortlist The Heir of Night<\/em> for Best Fantasy Debut\u2014vote here<\/strong><\/a><\/p>\n

The Legend<\/strong> Award: to shortlist The Heir of Night<\/em> for Best Fantasy Novel\u2014vote here<\/strong><\/a><\/p>\n

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\"\"<\/a>About The Sir Julius Vogel Awards<\/strong><\/p>\n

Nominations for the Sir Julius Vogel Awards<\/strong><\/a> also close today. The Awards are made annually by the Science Fiction & Fantasy Association of New Zealand<\/strong><\/a> (SFFANZ), for works published or released in the previous calendar year, and recognize achievement in Science Fiction, Fantasy and Horror by New Zealanders. Anyone may nominate and there is a list of eligible works on the SFFANZ site here<\/a>\u2014and another on the SpecFicNZ site, here<\/a>.<\/p>\n

So if you loved a scifi, fantasy or horror story, novel or film published or released by a New Zealander last year then do not hesitate—nominate! Now, at once today: it’s your last chance!<\/p>\n

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Which means, in fact, that it is the last chance to vote and nominate respectively–but you can dance too if you want too. \ud83d\ude09 I’ll certainly be doing a happy dance if I make it to the next round of either category in the Gemmell Awards! About the Gemmell Awards If you don’t know about […]<\/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-12675","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-awards"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/helenlowe.info\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/12675","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=12675"}],"version-history":[{"count":11,"href":"https:\/\/helenlowe.info\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/12675\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":12687,"href":"https:\/\/helenlowe.info\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/12675\/revisions\/12687"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/helenlowe.info\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=12675"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/helenlowe.info\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=12675"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/helenlowe.info\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=12675"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}