{"id":23361,"date":"2013-11-04T06:30:36","date_gmt":"2013-11-03T17:30:36","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/helenlowe.info\/blog\/?p=23361"},"modified":"2016-05-10T22:43:19","modified_gmt":"2016-05-10T10:43:19","slug":"not-yet-legend","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/helenlowe.info\/blog\/2013\/11\/04\/not-yet-legend\/","title":{"rendered":"Not Yet Legend… ;-)"},"content":{"rendered":"

\"\"<\/a>The David Gemmell Awards were announced on the evening of Thursday 31, on the opening night of the World Fantasy Convention in Brighton — and The Gathering Of The Lost<\/em> did not, alas, take home the axe…<\/p>\n

\"\"<\/a>That honor, and the Legend Award, went to US Fantasy novelist Brent Weeks<\/a> for The Blinding Knife<\/strong><\/em> (Orbit) — so first and foremost, congratulations, Brett!<\/p>\n

If you’d like to read the official announcement, it’s here<\/a>, and you can also read Brent’s finalist’s interview, here<\/a>.<\/p>\n

So, was I disappointed? Just a little, of course, because being human, hope springs eternal — but to be honest, my expectations of winning were never that high, given I was a new and building author up against several more established names. And even if I had cherished greater hopes, I think the viewing stats on the finalists’ interviews made it fairly clear that — if bets were being taken — Brent should be the bookies’\u00a0 favourite. \ud83d\ude09<\/p>\n

As I said last Monday in “Adding To The Epic Conversation”<\/a>, even having been voted onto the final shortlist<\/a> for the award was absolutely awesome from my point of view. It felt like a real “win” and a tremendous vote of confidence from readers and supporters of the WALL series.<\/p>\n

Earlier in the year I featured the AS Byatt wrote:<\/p>\n

\u201cThink of this \u2013 that the writer wrote alone, and the reader read alone, and they were alone with each other.\u201d <\/em><\/p>\n

So to wrap up my own involvement in this year’s Gemmells’ process, I would really like to thank everyone who has spent that precious time alone with GATHERING and through the book, with me. I am hugely grateful, not only for the support, but because I cannot help feeling that is what an award like the Legend is truly all about: the captains and the kings may depart, the shouting and the tumult die away, but I hope the stories, and the space in which writers and readers meet through their medium, will not only remain, but endure.<\/p>\n

—<\/p>\n

And on that note, best go and get me some writing in on completing Daughter Of Blood<\/em>, so we can all be alone together again, only this time within the medium of another book! \ud83d\ude09<\/p>\n

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