David Gemmell Awards – 2014 Longlist Revealed & Voting Open

The Longlists for the David Gemmell Awards has been revealed and voting has opened!!!

For those unfamiliar with how The David Gemmell Awards work, the first stage (that has resulted in this longlist) is where publishers nominate titles they think should be considered for the three award categories: best book, best debut and best cover. Once a sizeable list has been created, polls open and genre fans all around the world get to vote on which books they’d like to see pass through into the next round and enter into the shortlist. A few months later the top five books in each category are put into that shortlist and fans are once again invited to vote on their favourite. The winners are then announced at an annual award ceremony and presented with some pretty fricken awesome trophies.

Here are the lists:

Longlist for 2014’s David Gemmell Legend Award

The Legend Award is the highlight of the nights events at our Award Ceremony where the winner of the book voted best release of the year is presented with a unique, scale model of Snaga (the legendary axe of Druss the Legend) from Raven Armoury. The blades of the axe are laser-etched with the winner’s name & novel.

• Dreaming of Zhou Gong by Traci Harding
• War Master’s Gate by Adrian Tchaikovsky
• Written in Red by Anne Bishop
• The Shadowed Throne by K J Taylor
• Shattered Pillars by Elizabeth Bear
• Drakenfield by Mark Charan-Newton
• Kinless by Stephen Godden
• Moon’s Artifice by Tom Lloyd
• A Memory of Light by Robert Jordan and Brandon Sanderson
• Valley of Shields by Duncan Lay
• Imager’s Battalion by L E Modesitt Jr
• Emperor of Thorns by Mark Lawrence
• Allegiance by Beth Bernobich
• Skarsnik by Guy Haley
• The Daylight War by Peter V Brett
• Time of Contempt by Andrzej Sapkowski
• Gallow: The Crimson Shield by Nathan Hawk
• The Garden of Stones by Mark T Barnes
• The Wilful Princess and the Piebald Prince by Robin Hobb
• Master of Dragons by Chris Wraight
• Esrever Doom by Piers Anthony
• Kinslayer by Jay Kristoff
• Two Serpents Rise by Max Gladstone
• The Children of Fire by Drew Karpyshyn
• Herald of the Storm by Richard Ford
• Ace of Skulls by Chris Wooding
• Fade to Black by Francis Knight
• The Palace Job by Patrick Weekes
• Promise of Blood by Brian McClellan
• Ice Forged by Gail Z Martin
• The Thousand Names by Django Wexler
• Blood of Dragons by Robin Hobb
• The Raven’s Shadow by Elspeth Cooper
• The Republic of Thieves by Scott Lynch
• Antiagon Fire by L E Modesitt Jr
• She Who Waits by Daniel Polansky
• Magician’s End by Raymond E Feist
• The Last Dark by Stephen Donaldson
• Reunion by Jennifer Fallon
• The Crown Tower by Michael J Sullivan
• Black Sun Light My Way by Jo Spurrier

Longlist 2014 Morningstar Award

The Morningstar Award is to celebrate the newcomers to the fantasy genre, whose first book published in English will fight it out amongst the other young bloods to be crowned the fans undisputed New Blood Fantasy Champion.

• The Garden of Stones by Mark T Barnes
• The Palace Job by Patrick Weekes
• Headtaker by David Guymer
• Fade to Black by Francis Knight
• Promise of Blood by Brian McClellan
• The Path of Anger by Antoine Rouaud

Longlist 2014 Ravenheart – Cover and Artist

The Ravenheart Award is to celebrate the hard working artists of the fantasy genre, whose covers tantalise and enchant readers. The award is open for any Fantasy book published in English in the year of nomination with the winner being crowned ‘Ravenheart Fantasy Artist of the Year’ for their work. With so many hours of hard work put into the book jackets that help make a title so special we felt that the artists deserve to be recognised.

• Black Sun Light My Way – Harper Collins Australia
• The Falconer – Gollancz
• The Children of Fire – Clint Langley
• Ice Forged – Orbit
• Moon’s Artifice – Craig Frazer and Larry Rostant
• Assassin’s Apprentice – Voyager Classic – Harper Collins UK
• Promise of Blood – Orbit
• Silverthorn – Harper Collins UK
• She Who Waits – Rhett Podersoo
• The Wilful Princess and the Piebald Prince – Harper Collins UK
• A Game of Thrones – Voyager Classic – Harper Collins UK
• The Crown Tower – Orbit
• Drakenfield – Neil Lang
• The Garden of Stones – Stephan Martiniere
• A Darkness at Sethanon – Harper Collins UK
• Gallow: The Crimson Shield – Jamie Tanner and Alejandro Colucci
• The Last Dark – Sidonie Beresford-Browne
• Kinslayer – Neil Lang and Colin Thomas
• Skarsnik – Gheoljoo Lee
• Written in Red – Matt Stanton
• The Thousand Names – Steve Stone
• Emperor of Thorns – Harper Collins UK
• Fade to Black – Orbit
• The Palace Job – Lili Ibrahim
• The Raven’s Shadow – Sue Michneiwicz and Dominic Harman
• The Daylight War – Larry Rostant
• The Once and Future King – Voyager Classic – Harper Collins UK
• Ace of Skulls – Nick May and Stephen Youll
• Steelheart – Gollancz
• Time of Contempt – Abi Hartshorne and Alejandro Colucci
• Magician – Voyager Classic – Harper Collins UK
• Blood of Dragons – Harper Collins UK
• The Path of Anger – Keith Baker and Larry Rostant
• The Republic of Thieves – Orion Art Department and Benjamin Carre
• Magician’s End – Harper Collins UK

Do let us know who you will be voting for, who you expect to win! And, most importably:
Don’t forget to vote! 🙂

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