You an see the original article by Ben Anderson here, from the West Australian newspaper, about all the West Australians who were shortlisted for the awards.
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...living the reality of a "retired" person, which means I work harder than ever at being a writer, lurching from one deadline to another.
About Me
- Glenda Larke
- Australia
- My life was described by one of my editors as “impossibly exotic” – although really it was not my life, but me, that was the exotic, the uprooted plant, the one who didn’t belong, always living in someone else’s backyard...
Now I am back in Australia, the returning native learning to live where I was born. Writer, traveler, environmentalist. Author of The Isles of Glory trilogy (The Aware, Gilfeather, The Tainted); The Mirage Makers trilogy (Heart of the Mirage, Shadow of Tyr, Song of the Shiver Barrens); The Stormlord trilogy The Last Stormlord, Stormlord Rising, Stormlord's Exile, and writing as Glenda Noramly, a stand-alone book Havenstar.
LATEST: THE FORSAKEN LANDS A clash of cultures and magic as traders and buccaneers hunt for spices and wealth in the Va-forsaken half of the world ... even as the unidentified darkness of plague and murder stalks their own land. THE LASCAR'S DAGGER , THE DAGGER'S PATH and final book, THE FALL OF THE DAGGER available worldwide now! A new standalone work is now with my publisher...

Saturday, February 20, 2016
Wednesday, February 17, 2016
SARA DOUGLASS SERIES & AUREALIS SHORTLISTS ANNOUNCED TODAY

THE STORMLORD series (aka THE WATERGIVERS)
is on the Sara Douglass Award shortlist.


THE DAGGER'S PATH
(second book in
THE FORSAKEN LANDS trilogy),

This is my ninth shortlisting for the Aurealis for the Best Novel -- without ever winning -- which I suspect is some kind of record!
In short, this has been a terrific week for me. Will I win anything at all? I doubt it, as the books I'm up against are truly a wonderful selection by the best of Australia's many talented writers (and in fact, there were many others who missed out, who could so easily have been chosen). It doesn't matter. To know that judges and readers have loved my work enough to put them on a shortlist is the best compliment I could have.
I would love to be there, to applaud the winners. Unhappily, a very important family commitment/celebration means that I will be unable to attend the awards ceremony, and I really do regret that the two occasions clash.
Monday, February 15, 2016
THE DAGGER'S PATH... DITMAR FINALIST

THE DITMAR are reader voted awards, open to Australian authors/artists and voted upon by the Australia National Science Fiction Convention attendees.

THE LASCAR'S DAGGER,
the first book of the Forsaken Lands trilogy.*

THE DAGGER'S PATH,
and it has been voted on to the short list of five books. The other four are:- Day Boy, Trent Jamieson
- Graced, Amanda Pillar
- Lament for the Afterlife, Lisa L. Hannett
- Zeroes, Scott Westerfeld, Margo Lanagan, and Deborah Biancotti
My guess for a winner? I reckon it will be Trent's year this year, but we will see.
If you are attending the National Convention, or attended last year, be sure to vote.
And don't forget:
Book 3 will be long in just 8 weeks...
*it tied with with Trudi Canavan's novel "Thief's Magic."
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