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2014 Philip K. Dick Award Nominees

Jan 122015
 

Cover for Maplecroft by Cherie Priest. A woman's whose blond hair is in a proper Victorian updo has her back to us as she stands between two forebodingly lit marble columns. She is wearing a fancy blue Victorian dress. In her left hand, held slightly behind her, she holds a bloody ax.Congratulations to Cherie Priest on Maplecroft being nominated for the 2014 Philip K. Dick Award!

Lizzie Borden took an axe and gave her mother forty whacks; and when she saw what she had done, she gave her father forty-one….

The people of Fall River, Massachusetts, fear me. Perhaps rightfully so. I remain a suspect in the brutal deaths of my father and his second wife despite the verdict of innocence at my trial. With our inheritance, my sister, Emma, and I have taken up residence in Maplecroft, a mansion near the sea and far from gossip and scrutiny.

But it is not far enough from the affliction that possessed my parents. Their characters, their very souls, were consumed from within by something that left malevolent entities in their place. It originates from the ocean’s depths, plaguing the populace with tides of nightmares and madness.

This evil cannot hide from me. No matter what guise it assumes, I will be waiting for it. With an axe.

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Eliot Rosewater Award

Dec 182014
 

Charbonneau - The Testing revised coverCongratulations to Joelle Charbonneau on The Testing being on the 2015-6 ballot for the Eliot Rosewater Indiana High School Book Awards!

Keep your friends close and your enemies closer. Isn’t that what they say? But how close is too close when they may be one in the same?

The Seven Stages War left much of the planet a charred wasteland. The future belongs to the next generation’s chosen few who must rebuild it. But to enter this elite group, candidates must first pass The Testing—their one chance at a college education and a rewarding career.

Cia Vale is honored to be chosen as a Testing candidate; eager to prove her worthiness as a University student and future leader of the United Commonwealth. But on the eve of her departure, her father’s advice hints at a darker side to her upcoming studies–trust no one.

But surely she can trust Tomas, her handsome childhood friend who offers an alliance? Tomas, who seems to care more about her with the passing of every grueling (and deadly) day of the Testing. To survive, Cia must choose: love without truth or life without trust.

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2014 Voice Arts Awards

Dec 172014
 

Kill Fee by Owen LaukkanenCongratulations to Owen Laukkanen on his book KILL FEE receiving the Society of Voice Arts & Science’s 2014 award for Outstanding Audio Narration for Crime & Thriller!

The billionaire picked a heck of a way to die. On a beautiful Saturday in downtown Saint Paul, Minnesota, state investigator Kirk Stevens and FBI special agent Carla Windermere, witness the assassination of one of the state’s wealthiest men. The shooter is a young man, utterly unremarkable…except for the dead look in his eyes.

And it’s only the beginning. The events of that sunny springtime day will lead Stevens and Windermere across the country, down countless blind alleys, and finally to a very flourishing twenty-first century enterprise: a high-tech murder-for-hire social media website. But just who has the dead-eyed shooter targeted next…and who’s choosing his victims?

 December 17, 2014  Tagged with: ,

Anthony Awards 2014

Nov 182014
 

Cover for The Testing by Joelle Charbonneau. A blue background with a maze-like map, with half a silver medallion with a star and lightning bolts on it.Congratulations to Joelle Charbonneau on winning the 2014 Best Young Adult Novel Anthony Award for The Testing!

Keep your friends close and your enemies closer. Isn’t that what they say? But how close is too close when they may be one in the same?

The Seven Stages War left much of the planet a charred wasteland. The future belongs to the next generation’s chosen few who must rebuild it. But to enter this elite group, candidates must first pass The Testing—their one chance at a college education and a rewarding career.

Cia Vale is honored to be chosen as a Testing candidate; eager to prove her worthiness as a University student and future leader of the United Commonwealth. But on the eve of her departure, her father’s advice hints at a darker side to her upcoming studies–trust no one.

But surely she can trust Tomas, her handsome childhood friend who offers an alliance? Tomas, who seems to care more about her with the passing of every grueling (and deadly) day of the Testing. To survive, Cia must choose: love without truth or life without trust.

 November 18, 2014  Tagged with: ,

RT Book Awards 2014 Nominees

Nov 172014
 

Congratulations to the DMLA authors who were nominated for a 2014 RT Book Award!

  • Urban Fantasy Worldbuilding: Murder of Crows by Anne Bishop
  • First Historical Romance: A Gentleman ‘Til Midnight by Alison DeLaine
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2013 Shirley Jackson Award

Jul 162014
 

Cover for American Elsewhere by Robert Jackson Bennett. A photo of a "typical" American, two-story house, with a drive way, and trees in the background, with a bolt of lightning striking from above. The whole thing is in photo negative, though, so the lightning is black and the rest is very pale, colored from top to bottom in a gradient of blue to pink.Congratulations to Robert Jackson Bennett on American Elsewhere winning the Shirley Jackson Award! 

Some places are too good to be true. Under a pink moon, there is a perfect little town not found on any map. In that town, there are quiet streets lined with pretty houses, houses that conceal the strangest things. After a couple years of hard traveling, ex-cop Mona Bright inherits her long-dead mother’s home in Wink, New Mexico. And the closer Mona gets to her mother’s past, the more she understands that the people of Wink are very, very different …

 July 16, 2014  Tagged with: ,

2014 Sunburst Awards Nominees

Jun 262014
 

cover for Nalo Hopkinson's Sister Mine. A beautiful and colorful surrealist painting of two women with dreadlocks, one a deep purple, the other a burnt orange, swirling into each other.Congratulations to Nalo Hopkinson on Sister Mine being nominated for a 2014 Sunburst Award for excellence in Canadian literature of the fantastic!

We’d had to be cut free of our mother’s womb. She’d never have been able to push the two-headed sport that was me and Abby out the usual way. Abby and I were fused, you see. Conjoined twins. Abby’s head, torso, and left arm protruded from my chest. But here’s the real kicker; Abby had the magic, I didn’t. Far as the Family was concerned, Abby was one of them, though cursed, as I was, with the tragic flaw of mortality.
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 June 26, 2014  Tagged with: ,

Manly Wade Wellman Award 2014

Jun 202014
 

cover for Mur Lafferty's The Shambling Guide to New York City. A woman with curly brown hair walks down a New York City street, looking thoughtfully at the notepad she's writing on. Behind her are the usual pedestrians, cars, and buildings, but also a man with a tail, a goblin eating out of the trash, and a dragon perched on the Empire State Building.Congratulations to Mur Lafferty on the nomination of THE SHAMBLING GUIDE TO NEW YORK CITY for the 2014 Manly Wade Wellman Award for North Carolina Science Fiction and Fantasy!

Because of the disaster that was her last job, Zoe is searching for a fresh start as a travel book editor in the tourist-centric New York City. After stumbling across a seemingly perfect position though, Zoe is blocked at every turn because of the one thing she can’t take off her resume — human.

Not to be put off by anything — especially not her blood drinking boss or death goddess coworker — Zoe delves deep into the monster world. But her job turns deadly when the careful balance between human and monsters starts to crumble — with Zoe right in the middle.

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British Fantasy Awards 2014

Jun 112014
 

Cover for Between Two Thorns by Emma Newman. A dark red cover with "The Split Words" in smaller gray words atop, and "Between Two Thorns" in fancy big white text in the center. Below is an aqueduct with a gate, illustrated in black ink. Black ink filigree climbs either side of the cover, with flowers, bottles, eyes?, gargoyles???Cover for The Glass Republic by Tom Pollock. A black cover, with the title in large fancy silver letters in the center, and a silver London skyline running along the bottom edge.Congratulations to the DMLA authors nominated by the British Fantasy Society’s awards for 2014!

 

 

 

 

Best Fantasy Novel

  • BETWEEN TWO THORNS, Emma Newman (Angry Robot)
  • THE GLASS REPUBLIC, Tom Pollock (Jo Fletcher Books)

Best Newcomer:

  • Emma Newman, for BETWEEN TWO THORNS
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