Your Monday morning catch-up
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Over at Andy Remic’s website, Rem has announced that the French language translation of his first fantasy novel, Kell’s Legend has been picked up by that most illustious of imprints, Biblioteque Interdite.
Luke Reviews has listed Kell’s Legend and Kaaron Warren’s Slights as two of the best fifteen books of 2009.
There’s also an excellent mention of Kell’s Legend over at Morpheus Tales.
“The Stanley Riiks’ Special Award for Excellence (which I’ve just made up specifically for this book!) must go to the last book that I will read in 2009, the absolutely fantastic fantasy novel Kell’s Legend By Andy Remic, the first novel of the Clockwork Vampire Chronicles, can’t wait until April when the second book comes out! The best edge of the seat ending ever!”
Talking of excellent reviews, Mike Shevdon’s debut urban fantasy Sixty-One Nails continues to garner praise. At Opinionated? Me? they had this to say:
A unique urban fantasy that steps well outside its Gaiman shadow and leaves you anxiously waiting for more. I can’t wait for the sequel.
Rating: 8 out of 10–close to 9
We have a couple of award recommendations to mention, too. As well as being shortlisted for an Aurealis Award for Best Horror Novel, Kaaron Warren’s Slights has been nominated for a British Science Fiction Award for Best Novel, as has Lauren Beukes’ Moxyland. The BSF Awards are for genre-related book, not just science fiction.
Lavie Tidhar’s quest for world domination continues apace, and he chats to the fine people at The Book Smugglers (scroll down to the January 8th entry) about his Inspirations and Influences for The Bookman.
I blame the whales.
It’s hard to track the earliest seeds for The Bookman – my just-released-in-the-uk steampunk novel (the American edition comes out in August). In some ways they go back to my first published short story, The Ballerina in Nemonymous 3, and even earlier, to a never-written novella. What did prompt the actual writing of the book, though, is easier: it was that lost whale in the Thames.
That, and Munich.
