Today the Dragon Awards officially declared nominations are being taken for the 2018 awards. The site had already been updated and opened to participants some days ago. They also announced the creation of a new category, and the retirement of … Continue reading
The Dragon Awards site has been updated to accept nominations for the 2018 awards. Eligible works are those first released between 7/1/2017 and 6/30/2018. The deadline to make nominations is July 20, 2018. The initial batch of final ballots will be … Continue reading
The Dragon Awards winners were announced today at Dragon Con in Atlanta. Dragon Con President Pat Henry told the audience there were around 8,000 final ballots, twice as many as last year (although no voting statistics were released last year.) … Continue reading
The Dragon Award nominees came out August 3 and voting continues until September 1 — the deadline having been extended by two days after author withdrawals were permitted (although the award’s own webpage has yet to be updated.) Larry Correia’s … Continue reading
N.K. Jemisin has announced she is “Withdrawing from the Dragon Awards”. Last year, as a 2016 nominee in the Best Fantasy Novel category she says, “I took at face value the DA administrators’ insistence that they were trying to create … Continue reading
Dragon Con, has informed Alison Littlewood and John Scalzi they now have the option to withdraw from the Dragon Awards, after initially informing them that they would not be allowed to. However, Scalzi surprisingly has decided to leave his book … Continue reading
Alison Littlewood has been told by the President of Dragon Con, Pat Henry, that she will not be allowed to withdraw as a nominee of the Dragon Awards. She posted the convention’s answer on her blog in “Another statement regarding … Continue reading
Four days after the 2017 Dragon Awards ballot was posted Dragon Con has issued a supporting press release, “Dragon Con’s Dragon Awards Publishes Its 2017 Ballot”. DRAGON CON’S DRAGON AWARDS PUBLISHES ITS 2017 BALLOThttps://t.co/HlMRXFsNnS — Dragon Con Media (@DragonConMedia) August … Continue reading
John Scalzi has withdrawn The Collapsing Empire as a Dragon Awards nominee. He explained why in a post at Whatever: The reason is simple: Some other finalists are trying to use the book and me as a prop, to advance … Continue reading
Nickpheas had an interesting idea – he charted how many Goodreads users have rated each of the novels nominated for the 2017 Dragon Awards. He posted these as comments and I asked his permission to turn his research into a … Continue reading