{"id":22408,"date":"2013-09-16T06:30:23","date_gmt":"2013-09-15T18:30:23","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/helenlowe.info\/blog\/?p=22408"},"modified":"2016-05-10T22:35:34","modified_gmt":"2016-05-10T10:35:34","slug":"david-gemmell-legend-award-shortlisting-still-ongoing-plus-even-more-coming-up","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/helenlowe.info\/blog\/2013\/09\/16\/david-gemmell-legend-award-shortlisting-still-ongoing-plus-even-more-coming-up\/","title":{"rendered":"David Gemmell Legend Award Shortlisting: &#8216;Still Ongoing&#8217;, Plus Even More Coming Up!"},"content":{"rendered":"<h2>Events To Date:<\/h2>\n<div id=\"attachment_21359\" style=\"width: 206px\" class=\"wp-caption alignleft\"><a href=\"https:\/\/helenlowe.info\/blog\/2013\/07\/08\/whats-a-happening-on-anything-really-july-8-round-up\/snagaresize\/\" rel=\"attachment wp-att-21359\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" aria-describedby=\"caption-attachment-21359\" class=\"size-medium wp-image-21359\" title=\"snagaresize\" src=\"https:\/\/helenlowe.info\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2013\/07\/snagaresize-196x300.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"196\" height=\"300\" srcset=\"https:\/\/helenlowe.info\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2013\/07\/snagaresize-196x300.jpg 196w, https:\/\/helenlowe.info\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2013\/07\/snagaresize-98x150.jpg 98w, https:\/\/helenlowe.info\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2013\/07\/snagaresize.jpg 210w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 196px) 100vw, 196px\" \/><\/a><p id=\"caption-attachment-21359\" class=\"wp-caption-text\">The Legend Award<\/p><\/div>\n<p>On August 15, just over a month ago, I announced that <em><strong>The Gathering Of The Lost<\/strong><\/em> (<a href=\"http:\/\/helenlowe.info\/wallofnight.html\">The Wall Of Night<\/a> Book Two) had made the <a href=\"http:\/\/gemmellaward.com\/profiles\/blog\/show?id=2323348%3ABlogPost%3A58632\" target=\"_blank\">shortlist<\/a> for the <strong>David Gemmell Legend Award<\/strong> &#8212; and since then you&#8217;ll have noticed that there&#8217;s been quite a bit of Legend shortlist related activity &#8212; more, I think, than for the Morningstar Award last year, which is interesting to see.<\/p>\n<p>So far, the focus has been around interviews, with Q&amp;A&#8217;s so far on <strong>Dark Matterzine, Beatties BookBlog, ismellsheep genre site, Kate Forsyth&#8217;s Blog, SF Signal<\/strong> &#8212; and also, of course, my official Legend finalist&#8217;s interview on the David Gemmell Awards site, which you can read here:<\/p>\n<h3><a href=\"http:\/\/www.gemmellaward.com\/profiles\/blog\/show?id=2323348%3ABlogPost%3A59640\" target=\"_blank\">Legend Finalist&#8217;s Interview<\/a><br \/>\n<span style=\"color: #ffffff;\">.<\/span><\/h3>\n<h2>So What&#8217;s Still To Come?<\/h2>\n<div id=\"attachment_11204\" style=\"width: 206px\" class=\"wp-caption alignright\"><a href=\"https:\/\/helenlowe.info\/blog\/2012\/01\/19\/catherine-asaro-on-the-gathering-of-the-lost-the-wall-of-night-book-two\/gatheringoflost-2-2\/\" rel=\"attachment wp-att-11204\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" aria-describedby=\"caption-attachment-11204\" class=\"size-medium wp-image-11204\" title=\"GatheringofLost (2)\" src=\"https:\/\/helenlowe.info\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2012\/01\/GatheringofLost-21-196x300.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"196\" height=\"300\" srcset=\"https:\/\/helenlowe.info\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2012\/01\/GatheringofLost-21-196x300.jpg 196w, https:\/\/helenlowe.info\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2012\/01\/GatheringofLost-21-98x150.jpg 98w, https:\/\/helenlowe.info\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2012\/01\/GatheringofLost-21-669x1024.jpg 669w, https:\/\/helenlowe.info\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2012\/01\/GatheringofLost-21.jpg 867w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 196px) 100vw, 196px\" \/><\/a><p id=\"caption-attachment-11204\" class=\"wp-caption-text\">UK\/AUS\/NZ<\/p><\/div>\n<p>First off, tomorrow I have a radio interview with Ruth Todd on the <a href=\"http:\/\/plainsfm.org.nz\/programme\/bookenz\/\">Bookenz<\/a> show, which runs between 12-12.30 pm on\u00a0 on Plains 96.9 FM. So if you&#8217;re in Christchurch, tune in at 12 noon for that.<\/p>\n<p>I also have some guest posts coming up that I&#8217;ll be tweeting and linking to from here once they&#8217;re live:<\/p>\n<ul>\n<li>with <a href=\"http:\/\/www.mariannedepierres.com\/\">Marianne de Pierres <\/a>on keeping &#8220;Fantasy Fresh and Interesting&#8221;<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<ul>\n<li>on <a href=\"http:\/\/www.risingshadow.net\/\">RisingShadow<\/a> re &#8220;Magic In The Wall Of Night World&#8221;<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<ul>\n<li>on <a href=\"http:\/\/fantasticalimaginations.wordpress.com\/\">Fantastical Imaginations<\/a> in respect of &#8220;Writing Epic Heroines&#8221; (working title)<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<ul>\n<li>with <a href=\"http:\/\/kristincashore.blogspot.co.nz\/\">Kristin Cashore<\/a> for a very special project that you will have to &#8220;watch this space&#8221; to see revealed.<br \/>\n<span style=\"color: #ffffff;\">.<\/span><\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<h2>All Ending September 30<\/h2>\n<p><strong>ismellsheep giveaway<\/strong><br \/>\nIn terms of giveaways &#8212; don&#8217;t forget that the <a href=\"http:\/\/www.ismellsheep.com\/2013\/09\/international-gemmell-legend-award.html\">ismellsheep giveaway<\/a> for signed copies of all three of my published titles, <em>Thornspell<\/em>, <em>The Heir Of Night<\/em> and <em>The Gathering Of The Lost<\/em>, which closes September 30 (2013, of course!)<\/p>\n<div id=\"attachment_12626\" style=\"width: 177px\" class=\"wp-caption alignleft\"><a href=\"https:\/\/helenlowe.info\/blog\/2012\/03\/30\/the-gathering-of-the-lost-has-its-first-us-review\/gatheringofthelostt-mm-c\/\" rel=\"attachment wp-att-12626\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" aria-describedby=\"caption-attachment-12626\" class=\" wp-image-12626 \" title=\"GatheringoftheLostt mm c\" src=\"https:\/\/helenlowe.info\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2012\/03\/GatheringoftheLostt-mm-c-186x300.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"167\" height=\"270\" srcset=\"https:\/\/helenlowe.info\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2012\/03\/GatheringoftheLostt-mm-c-186x300.jpg 186w, https:\/\/helenlowe.info\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2012\/03\/GatheringoftheLostt-mm-c-93x150.jpg 93w, https:\/\/helenlowe.info\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2012\/03\/GatheringoftheLostt-mm-c-636x1024.jpg 636w, https:\/\/helenlowe.info\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2012\/03\/GatheringoftheLostt-mm-c.jpg 1258w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 167px) 100vw, 167px\" \/><\/a><p id=\"caption-attachment-12626\" class=\"wp-caption-text\">USA<\/p><\/div>\n<p><strong>US E-book Special Deal<\/strong><br \/>\nFor US readers, also don&#8217;t forget the 99c ebook special deal on <em>The Gathering Of The Lost<\/em> that my US publisher, HarperVoyager, is running &#8212; again until September 30 &#8212; to celebrate the Legend award shortlisting. So if you&#8217;re into ebooks and haven&#8217;t got your copy yet, here&#8217;s your chance &#8212; and, of course, books make great presents too.:)<\/p>\n<p><strong>Last But Not Least, Also Closing September 30:<br \/>\nThe Legend Award Voting&#8230;<\/strong> \ud83d\ude09<\/p>\n<p>Should&#8217;you wish to support <em>Gathering<\/em> in the final round&#8211;which would be <em>very<\/em> much appreciated&#8211;the voting link is here:<\/p>\n<p><a href=\"http:\/\/www.gemmellaward.com\/page\/the-legend-award\">http:\/\/www.gemmellaward.com\/page\/the-legend-award<\/a>;<br \/>\n(The &#8216;How To&#8217;: click in the circle above <em>&#8216;Helen Lowe &#8211; The Gathering Of The Lost&#8217;<\/em>, then scroll down &amp; click &#8216;vote&#8217;)<\/p>\n<p>And, of course, If you know someone else (or even many someones) who might like to support the cause, I would also very much appreciate your passing the word along!<\/p>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Events To Date: On August 15, just over a month ago, I announced that The Gathering Of The Lost (The Wall Of Night Book Two) had made the shortlist for the David Gemmell Legend Award &#8212; and since then you&#8217;ll have noticed that there&#8217;s been quite a bit of Legend shortlist related activity &#8212; more, [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[8,23,17,9],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-22408","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-about-my-books","category-about-what-im-doing","category-awards","category-my-interviews"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/helenlowe.info\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/22408","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=22408"}],"version-history":[{"count":25,"href":"https:\/\/helenlowe.info\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/22408\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":32235,"href":"https:\/\/helenlowe.info\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/22408\/revisions\/32235"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/helenlowe.info\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=22408"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/helenlowe.info\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=22408"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/helenlowe.info\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=22408"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}