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July 7, 2013
What’s A-Happening On “…Anything, Really”: July 8 Round-Up
The Legend Award
Last week’s big news was that The Gathering Of The Lost has been longlisted for the international David Gemmell Legend Award — an event canvassed here and here if you missed last week’s posts.
UK/AU/NZ Cover
I am also doing a The Gathering Of The Lost giveaway on the Supernatural Underground, which will run through until midnight, Monday 8, US Eastern Standard Time—that’s about Tuesday 4 pm, NZ time so if you haven’t entered yet there is still a window.:) Just click here to ente...
July 6, 2013
Comment Of The Week: from Elizabeth (Liz) Gatens
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(Liz means the Gemmell Legend Award, by the way.)
I alluded to the reason why characters you love may die in my books in a post titled: Romance vs Reality: War & Conflict in Epic Fantasy and “The Gathering of the Lost.”
(Just click on the title to read.)
Liz is a speculative fiction auth...
July 5, 2013
Giveaway Goodness On The Supernatural Underground
It’s been a while since I’ve done a giveaway, but I’ve got one going right now on the Supernatural Underground — it’s for The Gathering Of The Lost (all part of celebrating the Gemmell Legend Award longlisting) so click on over and check it out if you haven’t got your very own personalized copy of GATHERING yet.
The Gathering Of The Lost giveaway on the Supernatural Underground
My fellow fantastical-supernatural author, Amanda Arista, is also doing a giveaway for a copy of the anthology Vampir...
July 4, 2013
A Geography Of Haarth: Emer
The Wall of Night Series map; design by Peter Fitzpatrick
The A Geography of Haarth series is traversing the full range of locales and places from The Wall of Night world of Haarth. Today we’re on “Emer”: huzzah!
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Emer: one of the Southern Realms of Haarth, located south of the River
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“He was glad simply to be alive and amongst those who seemed disposed to keep him that way. Carick gave thanks to Imulun for that, and to Seruth, the guardian of journeys, as the horses’ hooves drummed around and...
July 3, 2013
The Crown of Good Company: BookSworn ‘Legends’
On Monday I posted about The Gathering Of The Lost having been nominated for the David Gemmell Legend Award.
I also mentioned that:
“It is a tremendous thrill to see my novel longlisted with so many international Fantasy authors whose work is celebrated in the genre—what my friend, poet Bernadette Hall, would call “the crown of good company.”
In the spirit of that “good company” I would also like to draw your attention to the new-out BookSworn post featuring the books of all four BookSworn autho...
July 2, 2013
Big Worlds On Small Screens: Rebecca Fisher Discusses “Maddigan’s Quest”
By Rebecca Fisher
Introduction:
Back in 2006, a little show comprised of thirteen half-hour episodes aired on New Zealand television. Despite being based on a book by one of our most beloved Kiwi writers and winning several television awards, it never garnered much attention, but now seems as good a time as any to shine a light on Maddigan’s Quest.
The project began when South Pacific Pictures approached author Margaret Mahy with a proposal to collaborate on a children’s drama series for televis...
July 1, 2013
Tuesday Poem: “Godwitting” by Bella Boyd
Godwitting
Wing out wilde bells,
restrain your dogs
spring harbingers clock in
sing of Limosa Lapponica,
fingers of Charadriiformes,
waders from the 16th C
flying in shrink wrapped
bedraggled
foraging for molluscums crustaceans in
shallows shining estuary,
where spring is peppered with
sewage and salted sea
wring out concerns,
for these summer tourists
pilot 11,000 Ks
trinkets to people twin share.
Roosting bibs a ruddy red,
waiting wind streams
homing Artic breeding grounds
godwitting on refuel
in yellow seas
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©...
June 30, 2013
“The Gathering Of The Lost” Makes The Gemmell Legend Award Longlist!
USA
UK/AUS/NZ
I am delighted and honoured to announce that The Gathering Of The Lost has been nominated for the international Gemmell Legend Award, one of three awards established to honour heroic fantasy author David Gemmell.
The award is given for the best novel, published in the preceding calendar year, in the epic, heroic, or high Fantasy genre that David Gemmell exemplified in novels such as Legend, Lion Of Macedon, and Lord Of The Silver Bow.
I number David Gemmell as one of the significant...
June 29, 2013
Comment Of The Week: from Paul Weimer
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Thank you kindly, Paul—needless to say, I “like.” 
Paul’s comment appears on the recent Founding Field’s review for The Gathering Of The Lost.
For those who may not know him, Paul is a reviewer and “Mind Meld” convenor on Hugo Award-winning site, SF Signal.
June 28, 2013
Just Arrived: “The Judas Tree” — Poems By Lorna Staveley Anker; edited by Bernadette Hall
I haven’t had a new collection of poetry to read for a while, so I was delighted when Bernadette Hall sent me a copy of The Judas Tree a posthumous collection of poems by Lorna Staveley Anker.
The Judas Tree was edited by Bernadette and is published by Canterbury University Press (2013.)
I am hoping to share a few of the poems with you via The Tuesday Poem, but in the meantime, here’s what the backcover has to say:
“LORNA STAVELEY ANKER was born in 1914. She used to joke that this was the cause...
