2013 David Gemmell Legend Award Winners

Speaking of winners, here are some more winners for today. The David Gemmell Legend Award are voted on by anyone with internet access and probably even more and continue to be one of my favorite awards. There are problems inherent in every award, whether judged by a panel or popularly, but this one always at least has books I've heard of so there's that. :)

And that's even despite the fact that my picks never win, as goes for this year.

From the David Gemmell Legend Award site, here ya go:

2013 RAVENHEART AWARD FOR BEST FANTASY COVER ART
Didier Graffet and Dave Senior for the cover of Red Country by Joe Abercrombie (Gollancz)

Comment: I voted for The Black Mausoleum because that dragon is just awesome and because these Abercrombie covers used to be the best thing since sliced bread ... before they were put on each consecutive release.

2013 MORNINGSTAR AWARD FOR BEST FANTASY DEBUT
John Gwynne for Malice (Pan MacMillan)

Comment: I didn't read any of these so I didn't vote. Simple as that.

2013 LEGEND AWARD FOR BEST FANTASY NOVEL
Brent Weeks for The Blinding Knife (Orbit)

Commentary: It was really down to this one or Red Country let's be honest. I voted for King of Thorns by Mark Lawrence.

David Gemmell Legend Awards

Sorry if you've received this/seen this post before, blogger has been down and doing some funky things the last couple days.

This is probably my favorite award, yes it's a popularity contest, but it's all the books I actually love.

And the voting is up and going!

Here are the shortlists:

Legend Award - Best Fantasy Novel

BRETT, Peter V - The Desert Spear (Voyager)
HEITZ, Markus - War the Dwarves (Orbit UK/US)
JORDAN, Robert and SANDERSON, Brandon - Wheel of Time: Towers of Mi...
PEVEL, Pierre - The Alchemist in the Shadows (Gollancz)
SANDERSON, Brandon - The Way of Kings (Gollancz/Tor US)
WEEKS, Brent - The Black Prism (Orbit UK/US)

Morningstar Award - Best Debut
CHARLTON, Blake - Spellwright (Tor US)
HINKS, Darius - Warrior Priest (The Black Library)
JEMISIN, N.K. - The Hundred Thousand Kingdoms (Orbit UK/US)
PEHOV, Alexey - Shadow Prowler (Tor US)
VICTORIA, Mary - Tymon’s Flight (HarperCollins Australia)

Ravenheart Award - Best Fantasy Art Cover

EINARSDOTTIR, Olof Erla - Power & Majesty

LOCKWOOD, Todd - The Ragged Man (Pyr)

NIELSEN, Cliff - The Hundred Thousand Kingdoms

SULLIVAN, Jon - Shadow King (The Black Library)

VICTORIA, Frank - Tymon’s Flight (HarperCollins Australia)

Does anyone know anything about Tymon's Flight? I've had my eye on it for a while now and especially since it's up for two awards, I think I might try it out.