[Introduction: Melanie Stormm continues her humorous series of posts about the misdirected emails she’s been getting. Stormm is a multiracial writer who writes fiction, poetry, and audio theatre. Her novella, Last Poet of Wyrld’s End is available through Candlemark & … 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
(1) CONTRACT GUIDES NOW OPEN ACCESS. The Authors Guild has released its Model Book Contract to the public for the first time. They have also produced a separate Literary Translation Model Contract for U.S. translators and literary agents. “We updated … Continue reading
The winners of the 2020 Booknest Fantasy Awards were announced March 31. AWARDS PROCESS. The BookNest Fantasy Awards are selected by a hybrid process. The longlist of nominees was assembled with recommendations by the blogs Fantasy Faction, Fantasy Book Critic, Fantasy … Continue reading
(1) NOT MY FAULT. The designer of the coin that shows H.G. Wells’ Martian tripods with four legs, Chris Costello, is passing the buck to the unknown artist of an old paperback cover which he displays as part of the … Continue reading
Reddit’s r/Fantasy group has chosen the nominees for the Best of /r/Fantasy 2020 — the Stabby Awards. The group has over 1.2 million members, although last year just 903 votes were cast. Voting continues until January 4. The winners will … Continue reading
By JJ: To assist Hugo nominators, listed below are the editors of long form (novel-length) works published for the first time in 2020. Note that all of these works, unless they are labeled “nonfiction”, are eligible in the Best Novel … Continue reading
Amazon released its picks for the twenty Best Science Fiction and Fantasy Books of the Year on November 23. N. K. Jemisin’s The City We Became was named the best sff book of 2020. Here’s the complete list: Devolution: A … Continue reading
Open voting has started in the semifinal round of the Goodreads Choice Awards 2020 and will continue until November 15. There are 20 categories overall. Five popular write-ins have been added to the 15 books listed in the opening round. Here are … Continue reading