Courtesy of Chris Teague, of Pendragon Press:

British Fantasy Award

Alphabetical List of top five nominees in all categories:

(Note: Where the list has more than 5 nominations, this is due to voting ties for one or more runner-up places)

Novel: The August Derleth Award

Ramsey Campbell, THE GRIN OF THE DARK, PS Publishing

Joe Hill, HEART SHAPED BOX, Gollancz

Michael Marshall, THE INTRUDERS, HarperCollins Publishers

Sarah Pinborough, THE TAKEN, Dorchester Publishing Co

Dan Simmons, THE TERROR, Little Brown & Co

Michael Marshall Smith, THE SERVANTS, Earthling Publications

Novella

Eric Brown, STARSHIP SUMMER, PS Publishing

Tim Lebbon, AFTER THE WAR (DOUBLE NOVELLA), Subterranean Press

Gary McMahon, ALL YOUR GODS ARE DEAD, Humdrumming

Del Stone jr., BLACK TIDE, Telos Publishing

Conrad Williams, RAIN, Gray Friar Press

Conrad Williams, THE SCALDING ROOMS, PS Publishing

Short Fiction

Ramsey Campbell, DIGGING DEEP, Phobic: Modern Horror Stories, Comma Press

Christopher Fowler, THE SPIDER KISS, The Mammoth Book of Monsters, Robinson

Joe Hill, THUMBPRINT, Postscripts # 10, PS Publishing

Joel Lane, MY STONE DESIRE, Black Static # 1, TTA Press

Tim Lebbon, DISCOVERING GHOSTS, Post Scripts # 10 Spring 2007, PS Publishing

Collection

Simon Clark, MIDNIGHT BAZAAR: A SECRET ARCADE OF STRANGE AND EERIE TALES, Robert Hale

Paul Finch, STAINS, Gray Friar Press

Christopher Fowler, OLD DEVIL MOON, Serpent's Tail

Stephen Gallagher, PLOTS AND MISADVENTURES, Subterranean Press

Gary McMahon, DIRTY PRAYERS, Gray Friar Press

Tony Richards, GOING BACK, Elastic Press

Anthology

Charles Black, THE BLACK BOOK OF HORROR, Mortbury Press

John Grant, NEW WRITINGS IN THE FANTASTIC, Pendragon

Stephen Jones, THE MAMMOTH BOOK OF BEST NEW HORROR 18, Robinson

D. F. Lewis, ZENCORE!, Meganthus

Ian Alexander Martin, THE FIRST HUMDRUMMING BOOK OF HORROR STORIES, Humdrumming

Small Press

Andy Cox, Black Static

Peter Crowther, PS Publishing

Peter Crowther, Postscripts

Andrew Hook, Elastic Press

Steve Upham, Screaming Dreams

Artist

Vincent Chong

Les Edwards (Edward Miller)

Dave McKean

Bryan Talbot

Steve Upham

Non-Fiction

Allen Ashley, PLANET DODO COLUMN, Midnight Street

Peter Tennant, WHISPERS OF WICKEDNESS WEBSITE REVIEWS

Stephen Thrower, NIGHTMARE USA: THE UNTOLD STORY OF THE EXPLOITATION INDEPENDENTS, FAB Press

Darren Turpin, UKSF BOOKNEWS

Mark Valentine, WORMWOOD, Tartarus Press

I'm mentioning

pendragonpress twice in two entries . . .

Pendragon Press's Christopher Teague clearly doesn't believe in closing down the offices simply because it's New Year's Day. I've just had an e-mail from him alerting me to a review that's been posted today by the webzine SF Crowsnest, another organization that clearly believes New Year's Day offers not a holiday but a chance to get some work done without the phones ringing all the time.

Reviewer Joules Taylor has this time (http://www.sfcrowsnest.co.uk:80/articles/books/2008/nz12065.php) taken on the anthology Triquorum One, which Chris published and himself edited in 2006 -- so it's a pleasant surprise to find a review of it appearing at this stage. The anthology is of three novelettes/novellas (hence its title), one of which is by, ahem, me. Here's a flavour of Taylor's review:

The middle story, 'The Thirty-Million-Day Dance Card', however, makes up for the shortcomings of the other two. John Grant's writing is, as ever, polished and elegant and is a delight to read. The characters are sympathetic, the situation poignant and immediately comprehensible and the resolution heart-warming.

One day into the new year and already this. Let's just hope the daily average keeps up . . .

Current Mood: insufferable
Current Location: now
Current Music: still Rokia Traore

Earlier this year, Pam and I went to Nottingham, UK, for Fantasycon, the annual convention of the British Fantasy Society. The main motivation was that Chris Teague of Pendragon Press (

pendragonpress) wanted to launch my anthology New Writings in the Fantastic there, and I'd promised him that, if he did so, we'd cross the Atlantic for the launch. Hearing we were planning to be there, our dear friend Ellen Datlow (

ellen_datlow) asked if I could accept on her behalf this year's Karl Edward Wagner Award (for lifetime achievement/contribution in the field of fantasy literature), which she'd won -- and no one more deservingly, I should add.

Last night, as pals Barbara and Randy (a.k.a.

randeroo) Dannenfelser were celebrating Hogmanay with us, in particular with a three-litre bottle of excellent Belgian lambic beer that Randy had managed to win in a raffle, I got an e-mail from Martin Roberts of the British Fantasy Society. He has just posted the video of the incompetent little performance to which I subjected the assembled throng when accepting the award for Ellen, and you can, if masochistic, see it here: http://vids.myspace.com/index.cfm?fuseaction=vids.individual&VideoID=25100515. It is not advised for children, the elderly, the frail, or any viewers of a nervous disposition . . . Perhaps you might not want the servants to watch it, either.

Current Mood: coy
Current Location: ici
Current Music: Rokia Traore - Wanita

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