The other day I noted a vote going on over at the ASIF site (Australian Speculative Fiction in Focus). It was to find the most popular series by an Oz author. They selected all the authors who have a completed trilogy/series, took one of those and asked readers to vote. Looking at it, I was thinking to myself I'd be hard put to choose which one - when the authors were folk like Karen Miller, Sara Douglass, Juliet Marillier, Jennifer Fallon, Trudi Canavan and so on... My God, with a line-up like that, how on earth could one choose? As my Mirage Makers was also up there, I didn't vote, but quite frankly, I would not have known which to pick.
Anyway, the winner was Sean Williams' Books of the Cataclysm, and as he is one of Australia's most talented SF writers, that was no surprise. What did astonish me was that Mirage Makers was second. Wow. Thank you all those that voted for it.
I may be officially astonished, but today I am also officially one very contented author.
About Me
- Glenda Larke
- Malaysia
- My life has been described by one of my editors as “impossibly exotic” – although really it is not my life, but me, that’s the exotic. I’m the uprooted plant, the exotic who doesn’t belong, always living in someone else’s backyard...
An Australian living in Malaysia. Writer, traveler, environmentalist. Author of The Isles of Glory trilogy (The Aware, Gilfeather, The Tainted); The Mirage Makers trilogy (Heart of the Mirage, The Shadow of Tyr, Song of the Shiver Barrens) and, writing as Glenda Noramly, a stand-alone book Havenstar. The latest trilogy is called The Watergivers in Australia and the Stormlord trilogy elsewhere: THE LAST STORMLORD, STORMLORD RISING, STORMLORD'S EXILE
Havenstar
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8 comments:
Congratulations, it's very well deserved! I was delighted and surprised that the Bridei Chronicles came in third.
To be pipped at the post by Sean is something of an honour:-) NY Times bestseller list - watch out for Glenda and Juliet!
Yep, let's show 'em, Juliet!!
Dunno who "them" is, but never mind...
I voted for you! I was sure you'd be first. Crisetta
I would've if I could've (voted for you that is). Having just re-read Mirage Makers, I enjoyed it so much all over again. Now I will have to see if I can find the winner's books.
The Mirage Makers is probably my favourite fantasy series - I definitely would have voted if I'd known about it!
Thanks, all...
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