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Tor.com have launched their 2011 Readers Choice Award. They want you to vote for the books you enjoyed the most and that were published in 2011. No idea why they are calling the award 'The Stubbies'. It isn't a beer bottle or a short pair of shorts! Very confusing for this Australian. Fantasy Faction has launched...

Myke Cole and his début urban fantasy novel 'Shadow Ops: Control Point' has been popping up on all the fantasy social media feeds I follow, as well as getting a fair bit of pimpage from Peter V Brett, so I thought I'd take a looksee. Army Officer. Fugitive. Sorcerer. Across the country and...

Peter V Brett has made an update on his blog about the release date of The Daylight War. Main points as follows: As of this moment, The Daylight War will probably be out February 4, 2013. The Demon Cylce is not a trilogy. It's a five book series. There will be...

The first draft that is. Oh and Click the cover for a laugh(mb). Sanderson tweets: Ladies and gentlemen, A Memory of Light--the final book in The Wheel of Time--has been finished. As for when the book will come out, Tor should do an announcement soon. Revisions will take a good six months....

Because I was bored I did a quick look around at some "Best of 2011 Lists". The following books got the most mentions. It's a top five. Four books tied for 4th. In the aftermath of a colossal battle, the future of the Seven Kingdoms hangs in the balance once again--beset by newly emerging threats from...

Jim Butcher has let us know what he's been up to. I've done a trilogy of short stories with linked characters in which Bigfoot is Dresden's client. They take place spread out over the length of the series so far. The Bigfoot stories were about 40 percent of a novel in total page length....

Some odd results here. Fantasy: 1st - A Dance With Dragons(unsurprising) with 8530 votes. 2nd - The Night Circus by Erin Morgenstern(who??????) with 8519. Granted I read a pretty narrow selection of the overall fantasy genre, but to have a book I've never even seen mentioned before only lose by 11 votes to ...

Tor.com has reported the death of Iconic Fantasy artist Darrell K. Sweet, probably best known for his "Dodgy" Wheel of Time Covers. Love them or hate them his works graced the covers of many SFF books and in the case of "The Wheel of Time" became a part of the series itself. It's a damn shame that the final...

Brent Weeks has updated his writing advice page with a section on Originality. He's probably not the person I'd be asking for that kind of advice. Apologies if that link doesn't work but I can't check due to being banned from that site. “This book has magic and stuff, and there’s these cool things in...

Another great has passed. Anne McCaffrey, best known for her Dragonriders of Pern series has passed away. She was 85 years old. Some links: SFWA http://www.sfwa.org/2011/11/anne-mccaffrey-1926-2011/ Tor.com http://www.tor.com/blogs/2011/11/anne-mccaffrey-in-remembrance Scalzi Blog memorial thread http://whatever.scalzi.com/2011/11/22/rip-anne-mccaffrey/