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  Horror Writers Association - The Bram Stoker Awards
To ameliorate the competitive nature of awards, the Stokers are given "for superior achievement," not for "best of the year," and the rules are deliberately designed to make ties fairly probable.
The first awards were presented in 1988 (for works published in 1987), and they have been presented every year since.
The award itself is an eight-inch replica of a fanciful haunted house, designed specifically for HWA by sculptor Steven Kirk.
www.horror.org /stokers.htm   (484 words)

  
  Award
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www.brainyencyclopedia.com /topics/award.html   (9094 words)

  
 Bentley Little - Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia
After reading it, Stephen King became a vocal fan of Little's work, and Little won the Bram Stoker Award for "Best First Novel" in 1990.
He moved to New American Library for his next two novels, but was dropped from the company after he refused to write a police procedural as his next novel.
There is also a recurring character in several of his novels called Phillip Emmons, after a pseudonym he used for an early novel.
en.wikipedia.org /wiki/Bentley_Little   (355 words)

  
 Owl Goingback: Biography
His novel Crota won the 1996 Bram Stoker Award for Best First Novel, and was one of four finalists in the Best Novel category.
The Bram Stoker Awards are given annually by voting members of the Horror Writers Association and are considered the highest honor a writer can receive in the horror genre.
The award was presented at the 1998 Annual National Convention of the International Reading Association.
www.owlgoingback.com /Bio.html   (288 words)

  
 Kepler's Bookstore
Lambda Literary Awards / Transgender / 2006 - 1997
The Charlotte Zolotow Award / 2005 - 1998
SPUR Awards / First Novel / 2006 - 2000
keplers.booksense.com /NASApp/store/IndexJsp?s=awards   (1759 words)

  
 The SF Site Featured Review: Lives of the Monster Dogs
Bakis' first novel has been praised primarily for its imagination and denigrated for its somewhat uninspired writing style.
She has created a novel which is not merely a narrative of strange events, but also a commentary on current society's relationship with outsiders.
It is nice to see that the committee members of the Bram Stoker awards have had the good taste to choose this interesting, if rather unusual, horror work over the more standard themes of today.
www.sfsite.com /10b/dogs43.htm   (961 words)

  
 Bios of 2004 Whiting Writers' Award Recipients | Mrs. Giles Whiting Foundation
When Kirsten Bakis published her first novel, Lives of the Monster Dogs, with Farrar, Straus & Giroux in 1997, it was named a New York Times Notable Book for the year, nominated for the Orange Prize in the U.K. and won the Bram Stoker Award for Best First Novel.
Victor LaValle is the author of the short story collection, Slapboxing with Jesus (Vintage, 1999), winner of the PEN Open Book Award, and the novel The Ecstatic (Crown, 2002), which was a finalist for the 2002 PEN/Faulkner Award.
Wilson is a recipient of a Helen Merrill Award for Emerging Playwrights, and an ATandT Onstage Award.
www.whitingfoundation.org /whiting_2004_bios.html   (1243 words)

  
 Dragon*Con Biography: [Scott Nicholson]
The Red Church was a finalist for the Bram Stoker Award for best first novel and was an alternate selection of the Mystery Guild.
In 1999, Nicholson won the grand prize in the international Writers of the Future contest and was first runner-up for the Darrell Award.
His new novel The Home was inspired by a child’s death at a local group home for troubled children.
www.dragoncon.org /people/nichols.html   (242 words)

  
 Neil Gaiman - Biography
It was nominated in the UK for a MacMillan Silver Pen award as the best short story collection of the year.
His children's novel Coraline, published in 2002, was also a New York Times and international bestseller and an enormous critical success; it won the Elizabeth Burr/ Worzalla, the BSFA, the Hugo, the Nebula, and the Bram Stoker awards.
In 2004, Gaiman published the first volume of a serialized story for Marvel called 1602, which was the bestselling comic of the year, and is currently a Quills Award finalist in the graphic novel category.
www.neilgaiman.com /about/biography   (1185 words)

  
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Among the best known are The Riddle-Master of Hed (1976), Harpist in the Wind (1979; nominated for the Best Novel Hugo Award), and Nebula Best Novel nominees Winter Rose (1996) and The Tower at Stony Wood (2001).
Her first story in the genre, “Avant Vanguard” (The Fantastic Adventures of Robin Hood), was followed by others, and she won the John W. Campbell Award for Best New Writer in 1993.
Her first novel, The White Mists of Power, appeared in 1991, as did her novella, “The Gallery of His Dreams”, which was a 1992 Hugo Award nominee.
members.tripod.com /stromata/id443.htm   (14177 words)

  
 The SF Site Featured Review: The Safety of Unknown Cities
Her first writing was non-fiction, mainly travel writing, and she has also taught English in Japan.
Her first novel, The Safety of Unknown Cities (1995) received the Bram Stoker Award, along with the International Horror Critics Award and the Deathrealm Award.
It is no wonder this book won the Bram Stoker award for best first novel in 1995.
www.sfsite.com /05b/uc176.htm   (642 words)

  
 World Horror Convention 2007: Guests of Honour
DON HUTCHISON's non-fiction study THE GREAT PULP HEROES was nominated for the Bram Stoker Award, while his six-volume Aurora Award-winning series of the landmark NORTHERN FRIGHTS anthologies gained international recognition and acclaim for Canadian horror and its practitioners.
In 1990 he received The Lamont Award "for outstanding effort in keeping alive the memory and spirit of the pulp magazine era".
NANCY KILPATRICK is best known for her "The Power of Blood" vampire series (comprising the novels NEAR DEATH, CHILD OF THE NIGHT, REBORN, BLOODLOVER and TRANSFORMATION).
www.whc2007.org /goh.htm   (892 words)

  
 Melanie Tem: Prodigal - Fantastic Reviews book review
The first Melanie Tem story I ever read was a powerful novelette called "Jenny", about a young woman haunted by the memory of her dead sister, which appeared in the mid-December 1993 issue of Asimov's Science Fiction magazine.
Prodigal was Melanie Tem's first novel, and won a Bram Stoker award for best first novel in 1992.
Since Johnston is portrayed as a pretty creepy guy throughout, and Lucy has every reason to link him to the death and disappearance of her brother and sister, Lucy's sudden trust in him is extremely unconvincing.
www.geocities.com /fantasticreviews/prodigal_tem.htm   (690 words)

  
 Dorchester Publishing - Online Bookstore for Romance, Horror and Western Novels
Our success shows in the large number of authors who published their first book with us, continued to grow and find new fans, and are now national best-sellers.
Leisure Horror titles have won numerous awards, from the Bram Stoker Award to the International Horror Guild Award, and our authors have been recognized by organizations including the Horror Writers Association, the World Fantasy Society, the British Fantasy Society, and the International Horror Guild.
We have published the debut novels of such rising stars as Jemiah Jefferson, Gary A. Braunbeck, and Brian Keene, whose The Rising received the Bram Stoker Award for Best First Novel.
www.dorchesterpub.com /Dorch/about.cfm   (1174 words)

  
 Libertarian Futurist Society
His recent novels include "The Stars are Also Fire" (the 1995 Prometheus winner for Best Novel) and "The Fleet of Stars." Anderson died in 2001.
He also is known for his novel "The Peace War" (set in the same future as "Marooned in Realtime") and a short novel, "True Names," widely acknowledged as the seminal cybernovel, by readers and scientists alike.
The novel, published in 1979, anticipated such 1980's and 1990's problems as increased gang violence and homelessness, economic chaos such as the 1980's stock market crash and SandLcrisis, and political trends such as the economic and political unification of Europe.
www.lfs.org /aboutus.htm   (2123 words)

  
 Dragon*Con Biography: [Steven Savile]
Steven Savile has twice been nominated for the British Fantasy Society Award for Best short story and best original fiction collection, and was runner up in 2000 for his editorial work on Redbrick Eden, Scaremongers 2, which raised over £6,000 for the homeless charity SHELTER in the UK.
He has been longlisted and shortlisted for the Bram Stoker Award for Best First Novel, Best Short Story Collection and Best Long Fiction.
He has three new novels due out in the next 12 months from Games Workshop's Black Library tied in to their popular Warhammer Fantasy world.
www.dragoncon.org /people/saviles.html   (248 words)

  
 the other change of hobbit science fiction & fantasy bookstore: October 1998 releases
British trade paperback omnibus, reprinting the novels, The Body in the Library (1942), The Moving Finger (1943), A Murder Is Announced (1950) and 4.50 From Paddington (1957).
Trade paperback reprint 1995 British hardcover novel in verse.
The opening is slow going, as Dunnett meticulously sets the historical stage, but here in a single volume, she weaves a tales as fascinating and as tangled as the Lymond Chronicles, with characters no less richly layered.
www.otherchangeofhobbit.com /9810.html   (2643 words)

  
 Modern Fix
This was my second win in three years [Editor’s note: Keene’s first win was for nonfiction] but it’s still a rush.
Publishers wouldn’t touch a zombie novel, but they’d buy any piece-of-shit vampire book that landed on their desk.
My next novel, “Terminal” should be out in hardcover this September.
www.modernfix.com /features/43/keene.htm   (960 words)

  
 Fictionwise eBooks: Award Winners
The Nebula Awards® are presented by the Science Fiction and Fantasy Writers of America (SFWA) and thus are given by authors to authors, a high honor indeed.
Stories that have won both awards are rare and special, being the favorites of both fans and professional writers.
The Mountains of Mourning [A Vorkosigan Novel] by Lois McMaster Bujold
www.fictionwise.com /awardstories.htm   (869 words)

  
 2004 Bram Stoker Award for First Novel
A sparkling debut novel in which a man must confront the ghost of the father he killed seven years before.
Jack Kerouac is hiding in his Big Sur shack and drinking off his latest nervous breakdown when he stumbles upon the rise of R’lyeh right off the shore of the Pacific.
Compare the Stoker Award with other awards in genre: Horror.
book.awardannals.com /award/stoker/first   (444 words)

  
 Incidental Pieces   (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-31)
Outside of what my natural surroundings (location, location, location) give to me (which is a lot, especially for my first novel), I'm guessing a person could, if persistant in their desire for isolation, sequester themselves from the rest of the world while they created their art.
It was during my first winter of 'commuting' to the barn that I realized how far a hike it was to trudge through the snow back to the house whenever I felt 'the need'.
It is only a novel!” replies the young lady, while she lays down her book with affected indifference, or momentary shame.
amimckay.blogspot.com   (14026 words)

  
 World Horror Convention 2007: Bram Stoker Nominee Bios
His first novel, Bloodstone, was released in hardcover from Thomson Gale imprint Five Star in 2006 to critical acclaim, and his latest story has been recently accepted for publication by Dark Wisdom.
His novels include Cursed Be the Child, The Strangers and Moon On the Water, and his short fiction has appeared in such anthologies as Lovecraft's Legacy, Still Dead, Masques IV, and Nukes: Four Horror Writers on the Ultimate Horror.
Joe R. Lansdale is the winner of six HWA Bram Stoker Awards, the British Fantasy Award, the MWA Edgar Award, the American Mystery Award, the Horror Critics Award, the "Shot in the Dark" International Crime Writer's award, the Booklist Editor's Award and the Critic's Choice Award.
www.whc2007.org /stokers-nom01.htm   (3902 words)

  
 Horror Writers Association - Bram Stoker Award Ballot
Bram Stoker Awards Final Ballot for Works Published in 2006
Prepared by the Bram Stoker Awards Committee for the Horror Writers Association (HWA).
Voting HWA members, please note that links for contacting authors/publishers about copies of various works and for locating works posted online are available on the recommendations page in the Members Only area of this web site.
www.horror.org /stokerballots.htm   (350 words)

  
 Tor and Forge Books: Award-Winning Books
The Moon Is a Harsh Mistress by Robert A. Heinlein: Best Novel, 1966
The Urth of the New Sun by Gene Wolfe: Best Novel, 1988
Tooth and Claw by Jo Walton: Best Novel, 2004
www.tor-forge.com /Awards.aspx   (3482 words)

  
 Pages that link to Bram Stoker Award for Best First Novel - Encyclopedia - Fansub TV
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Pages that link to Bram Stoker Award for Best First Novel
The following pages link to Bram Stoker Award for Best First Novel
www.fansub.tv /encyclopedia.php?title=Special:Whatlinkshere&target=Bram_Stoker_Award_for_Best_First_Novel   (96 words)

  
 Yvonne Navarro: Bibliography
February, 1997 - Final Impact, Bantam Books (winner of the 1997 CWIP Award for Excellence in Adult Fiction and the Rocky Mountain News) "Unreal Worlds" Award for Best Horror Paperback of 1997
October, 2005 - Anthology - TAVERNS OF THE DEAD (Cemetery Dance Publications), "Times of Atonement" (Finalist for the 2050 Bram Stoker Award in the Short Fiction category.)
December, 1995 - PALACE CORBIE (#6), "DeadTimes" (novel excerpt, chapter 3)
www.yvonnenavarro.com /bibliogr.htm   (2806 words)

  
 e-books Australia   (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-31)
RMIT have been in Ho Chi Minh City (the township formerly known as Saigon) since 1998, as the first foreign university to open in postwar Vietnam.
IEEE must be the best place in the world for technical documents, unless four million downloaders are all wrong.
The NZ Ministry of Education also helpfully agreed to fund all school library access to the e-resources for the first year of the venture.
www.e-book.com.au /main.html   (9221 words)

  
 P.D. Cacek's Bibliography - Novels, Collections and Anthologies
Available from The Design Image Group, PO Box 2325, Darien, IL 60561; credit card orders 800-563-5455.
[Nominated for the Horror Writers Association Bram Stoker Award for Best First Novel of 1997] [Buy New] [Find Used]
(Contents of collection) [Nominated for the Horror Writers Association Bram Stoker Award for Best Fiction Collection of 1997] [Buy New] [Find Used]
www.pdcacek.com /biblio1.htm   (216 words)

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