{"id":6288,"date":"2011-06-20T06:30:13","date_gmt":"2011-06-19T18:30:13","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/helenlowe.info\/blog\/?p=6288"},"modified":"2011-06-19T23:02:10","modified_gmt":"2011-06-19T11:02:10","slug":"the-gemmell-awards-announced","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/helenlowe.info\/blog\/2011\/06\/20\/the-gemmell-awards-announced\/","title":{"rendered":"The Gemmell Awards Announced"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Last week I posted about the <strong>Gemmell Awards<\/strong> <a href=\"https:\/\/helenlowe.info\/blog\/2011\/06\/13\/award-watch-the-gemmell-awards\/\">here<\/a>, with a follow-up <a href=\"https:\/\/helenlowe.info\/blog\/2011\/06\/13\/award-watch-the-gemmell-awards\/\">here<\/a>. As you may recall the Gemmells are a reader voted award and the results of the final vote were announced at the award ceremony in London on Friday evening, as follows:<\/p>\n<p><strong><a rel=\"attachment wp-att-6289\" href=\"https:\/\/helenlowe.info\/blog\/2011\/06\/20\/the-gemmell-awards-announced\/powerandmajesty_thumb2\/\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"alignright size-medium wp-image-6289\" title=\"PowerAndMajesty_thumb[2]\" src=\"https:\/\/helenlowe.info\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2011\/06\/PowerAndMajesty_thumb2-184x300.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"184\" height=\"300\" srcset=\"https:\/\/helenlowe.info\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2011\/06\/PowerAndMajesty_thumb2-184x300.jpg 184w, https:\/\/helenlowe.info\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2011\/06\/PowerAndMajesty_thumb2-92x150.jpg 92w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 184px) 100vw, 184px\" \/><\/a>The <a href=\"http:\/\/gemmellaward.com\/page\/legend-1\"><strong>Legend<\/strong><\/a><strong> <\/strong>Award for Best Fantasy Novel of the Year:<\/strong><\/p>\n<ul>\n<li>Brandon Sanderson, <em><strong>The Way of Kings<\/strong><\/em> (Gollancz, UK; Tor US)<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<p><strong>The <strong><a href=\"http:\/\/gemmellaward.com\/page\/morningstar-1\">Morningstar<\/a><\/strong> Award for Best Fantasy Newcomer\/Debut:<\/strong><\/p>\n<ul>\n<li>Darius Hinks, <em><strong>Warrior Priest<\/strong><\/em> <em>(Black Library)<\/em><\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<p><strong>The <a href=\"http:\/\/gemmellaward.com\/page\/ravenheart-1\"><strong>Ravenheart<\/strong><\/a> Award for Best Fantasy Book Jacket\/Artist:<\/strong><\/p>\n<ul>\n<li>Olof Erla Einarsdottir for the cover of <em><strong>Power and Majesty <\/strong><\/em>by Tansy Rayner Roberts (Harper Voyager, Australia)<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<p>Congratulations to all the winners&#8212;and also to all those shortlisted as this is no mean feat for an international award. (I&#8217;ve featured the cover of\u00a0 <em><strong>Power and Majesty <\/strong><\/em>as the &#8220;downunder&#8221; representative in the winners&#8217; parade&#8212;although the artist, Olof Erla Einarsdottir, is Icelandic of course!)<\/p>\n<p>On Wednesday or Thursday I hope to post about the <strong>Mythopoeic Awards<\/strong>, another category of international awards that has recently had a finalists&#8217; shortlist out.<\/p>\n<p>&#8212;<\/p>\n<p><em><strong>Completed Today<\/strong><\/em><\/p>\n<p>OK, now for the current update on the <em><strong>Gathering<\/strong><\/em> revision:<\/p>\n<ul>\n<li>15 further pages of manuscript rewritten;<\/li>\n<li>Total Pages Until Completion: 104 plus Glossary.<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Last week I posted about the Gemmell Awards here, with a follow-up here. As you may recall the Gemmells are a reader voted award and the results of the final vote were announced at the award ceremony in London on Friday evening, as follows: The Legend Award for Best Fantasy Novel of the Year: Brandon [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[23,17],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-6288","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-about-what-im-doing","category-awards"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/helenlowe.info\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/6288","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=6288"}],"version-history":[{"count":16,"href":"https:\/\/helenlowe.info\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/6288\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":6305,"href":"https:\/\/helenlowe.info\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/6288\/revisions\/6305"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/helenlowe.info\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=6288"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/helenlowe.info\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=6288"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/helenlowe.info\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=6288"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}