After my diatribe on awards last week, it would seem our own Aaron Kite has won a Watty for his YA novel, A Touch of Poison, which will be released later this year by Five Rivers in both print and eBook. You can read more about his success on his blog. And more about the Watty here.
It’s that time of year again when publishers scramble to ship books to awards committees, and nominate their titles for peoples’ choice awards. In this latter category is Canada’s Prix Aurora Award. The Prix Aurora Awards are given out annually to honour the best Canadian science fiction and fantasy literary works, artwork, and fan activities from the previous year. This year Five Rivers has several works eligible for recognition. Mik Murdoch: Boy Superhero, by Michell…
In Alicia Hendley’s usual humble fashion, she failed to mention her screenplay Snake Oil was recently short-listed for the Gotham Screen 2012 International Film Festival. Congratulations, Alicia. Although this year’s winner has already been announced, we at Five Rivers are very proud you made it that far. Well done. Alicia Hendley is the author of the very raw and insightful novel, A Subtle Thing.
A reader review of And the Angels Sang appeared last week on LibraryThing, which was cross-posted to Amazon.com. We thought we’d share. Lorina Stephens demonstrates mastery of distopian/strange fiction, sci-fi, and fantasy in this recent seventeen story anthology. Although many pieces are previously published, shorter unpublished works such as ‘Protector’, ‘The Gift’, and ‘Zero Mile’ are captivating looks at phenomena just on the edge of our current reality – while longer pieces such as the…
Canada’s Prix Aurora Awards are now open for nominations. Our own Lorina Stephens’ fantasy novel, From Mountains of Ice, is eligible for nomination. You can easily make your nomination online at the Prix Aurora website, at http://www.prixaurorawards.ca/English/AwardProcess/nominationVoting.htm The Canadian Science Fiction and Fantasy Awards (“the Auroras”) have been presented annually since 1980 with the exception of 1984. The name Aurora has been officially in use since 1991. The primary function of Canvention is the presentation…