The Dragon Awards website has reset and is now taking nominations for the 2022 awards. I tested the site and was informed my nomination had been accepted — The update was done within the past six weeks, not as soon after Dragon Con … Continue reading
The Dragon Awards winners were presented for the sixth time in September 2021. With the award still in its early years, people are continuing to refine their ideas about what it means to win one. Three main things are known … Continue reading
The 2021 Dragon Awards winners were announced September 5 at Dragon Con. (Information livetweeted by Sean CW Korsgaard.) 1. BEST SCIENCE FICTION NOVEL Project Hail Mary by Andy Weir 2. BEST FANTASY NOVEL (INCLUDING PARANORMAL) Battle Ground by Jim Butcher 3. BEST YOUNG … Continue reading
The 2021 Dragon Awards Ballot was distributed August 11. Registered voters should expect to receive notice by email. To be eligible for the 2021 Dragon Awards the book, comic, game, movie, must have been released between July 1, 2020, and the close … Continue reading
Now doesn’t that seem an unlikely question to see here? And yet with the winners of the 2020 Dragon Awards’ seven novel categories including John Scalzi, Erin Morgenstern, and T. Kingfisher, and the award administrators canvassing voters through the Atlanta-local … Continue reading
The Dragon Awards website has reset and is now taking nominations for the 2021 awards. I tested the site and was informed my nomination had been accepted — Eligible works are those first released between 7/1/2020 and 6/30/2021. The deadline to make nominations … Continue reading
(1) CATS MEOW, LIZARDS THUNDER, BOOK HAPPENS. Filers Charon Dunn and Sally Smith collaborated on a book that’s newly released! What’s it about? Rhonda Wray’s “favorite boy band is trapped on a dinosaur planet and it’s up to Rhonda to … Continue reading
What was the response to yesterday’s announcement of the 2020 Dragon Awards winners among some of the award’s most ardent supporters? It can be divided between those who ignored any category that wasn’t won by someone they approved, and those … Continue reading
The winners of the 2020 Dragon Awards were announced today during the virtual Dragon Con. The convention’s press release says more than 8,000 fans cast ballots. 1. Best Science Fiction Novel The Last Emperox by John Scalzi 2. Best Fantasy Novel … Continue reading
Yesterday the 2020 Dragon Awards ballot dropped, pleasantly surprising many by being loaded with genuinely popular books. (As Cora Buhlert put it, “The 2020 Dragon Award Finalists Go Full Tilt Towards Mainstream Respectability”). But not everyone is pleased. Tommy Lasorda … Continue reading