Yay! Worldshaker has been shortlisted for the Ethel Turner Prize in the NSW Premier’s Literary Awards! Completely out of the blue – how often do fantasy books get chosen for such prizes? This shortlisting means that the judges selected Worldshaker as one of the 6 best YA novels by any Australian author anywhere. And if I won, it would mean $30,000 in prize money. But I’m not expecting a further miracle, I”m just delighted at this success. Another small step in the march of fantasy …
Richard Harland
Congratulations, Richard. This is really prestigious, especially for a fantasy novel. Literary people sometimes don’t get fantasy.
Too right! too many people still use ‘fantasy’ almost like an insult. But it’s changing!
Richard
Fabulous news.
It’s very exciting to see fantasy & SF being recognised among the mainstream literahry crowd. So glad that Worldshaker is being recognised too – now we just need to see it make its mark overseas.
Fingers crossed for overseas! Le Worldshaker just came out in France, and it’s already snuck into the Top 100 YA bestselling list of the biggest French bookchain. It hasn’t yet come out in the US, but it’s been chosen as a Selection by the Junior Library Guild – no prize money, but an instant increase in print run.
That is brilliant! Yay Worldshaker! Yay Richard!
Thoraiya
Thanks Thoraiya! Fantasy rules OK!