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Aurora Time Again!

It's that time again: time to nominate works for the Prix Aurora Award, which you can do here:

• Nomination process page:
  http://www.facebook.com/l/f6044;www.prix-aurora-awards.ca/English/AwardProcess/nominationVoting.htm


• Direct to the Form: http://www.prix-aurora-awards.ca/English/AwardProcess/nominationForm.php
  

The Aurora Awards are fan-voted awards for the best Canadian SF of the year.

Any Canadian citizen or permanent Canadian resident can nominate works for free either electronically or by mail. It only takes a few minutes. The deadline for nominations is February 5, 2010. The Aurora Awards will be given out at KeyCon in Winnipeg in May.

For a list of some of the eligible works you can go here: http://www.facebook.com/l/f6044;canadiansf.com/node/42

Eligible works for the Okal Rel Universe (the short form one isn't ORU but the author will also appear in Opus 5)

Best Long-Form Work In English - 2009
Far Arena by Lynda Williams, Edge Science Fiction and Fantasy 2009

Best Short-Form Work In English - 2009
A Day in the Life, Jennifer Lott, issue 18 of Neo-Opsis

Best Work In English (Other) - 2009
Opus 3, Okal Rel Legacies Anthology, Absolute X-Press

Thanks for supporting the Okal Rel Universe!

Labels: Aurora Award, Far Arena, Opus 3

posted by Lynda at 00:06   0 comments permalink comment? e-mail lynda@okalrel.org 0 comments links to this post

 
Feedback from Elizabeth Woods on Part 5: Far Arena
> I am so loving Far Arena! I am at the part where they have just
> arrived on Rire. You never fail to completely enrapture me. I am
> so glad tomorrow starts my summer - I can sit and read!

Elizabeth have volunteered to help my exterminate typos in Part 6: Avim's Oath by giving it a read-through. Jennifer Lott has also helped out on this front, and editor Richard Janzen will be doing the copy-edit this summer. Not certain of the release date yet, but hoping for winter 2010.

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posted by Lynda at 09:54   0 comments permalink comment? e-mail lynda@okalrel.org 0 comments links to this post

 

I am featured on the homepage of UNBC, today, with Part 5: Far Arena in hand.

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posted by Lynda at 12:10   0 comments permalink comment? e-mail lynda@okalrel.org 0 comments links to this post

 
Far Arena appears on the left in this slide from the Edge Spring launch. For the rest of the side show, including shots of some of our favorite people - Brian Hades, Justyn Perry, Robert Sawyer, Randy McCharles and Susan Forrest - see today's homepage at Edge Science Fiction and Fantasy Publishing. Just got an exciting sneak preview of Steph St. Laurent's video of ORU event at Bridges, as well, which David Lott will be helping me get up on the blog here some post soon!

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posted by Lynda at 12:12   0 comments permalink comment? e-mail lynda@okalrel.org 0 comments links to this post

 

The look of the cover for Part 5: Far Arena has changed. It is now brighter with a yellow-tinge to the inner ring the brings out more of the detail. My daughter Angela was shocked. She'd fallen for the original art and the portrayal of Erien against blue rather than yellow. We had that version on our fridge door for months. I'm sure the new look will grow on me. Hoping to have books in hand by Bridges Festival June 11, but if not I'm confident they will be available for a launch in Prince George later this summer. Haven't booked that date yet.

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posted by Lynda at 07:43   0 comments permalink comment? e-mail lynda@okalrel.org 0 comments links to this post

 

Reviewed the front matter for Part 5: Far Arena tonight and gave Brian the okay. Guessing this means it will be headed for the printer any day now. He sent it to me last Wednesday but I've been on a writing bender and away from my mail. :-(

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posted by Lynda at 21:38   0 comments permalink comment? e-mail lynda@okalrel.org 0 comments links to this post

 


Hope and expect Part 5: Far Arena will be among the books launched at Edge's swanky do in Calgary, Jun 13, 2009. Maybe even print versions of the Absolute XPress titles in the Okal Rel Legacies imprint? It will be hard typing with crossed fingers but I'll gonna try. :-)

Contact Justyn Perry (justyn@hadespublications.com) for more information about the launch event.

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posted by Lynda at 15:31   0 comments permalink comment? e-mail lynda@okalrel.org 0 comments links to this post

 


The very cool Jessica Strider of the World's Biggest Bookstore in Toronto has put out her list of books for May 2009 ... and Part 5: Far Arena is included in the list of Trade Paperbacks. Also exciting to see Alison's new novel, Darkborn in the list. Darkborn is entirely unrelated to Okal Rel. It's the first of her new fantasy series.

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posted by Lynda at 08:22   0 comments permalink comment? e-mail lynda@okalrel.org 0 comments links to this post

 

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posted by Lynda at 07:30   0 comments permalink comment? e-mail lynda@okalrel.org 0 comments links to this post

 
Far Arena is showing up in Edge's news updates as a Spring 2009 release.

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posted by Lynda at 06:42   0 comments permalink comment? e-mail lynda@okalrel.org 0 comments links to this post

 


The cover of Part 5: Far Arena is up on a catalog page at Edge! I love how artist Lynn Perkins has depicted Erien, the 'Throne Price' of Part 4, in the cover art. Lynn actually reads the books! And enjoys the series. I have high hopes of seeing her work on Part 6, as well. About 80,000 words into Part 6 and hoping to finish over the Xmas break.

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posted by Lynda at 07:36   0 comments permalink comment? e-mail lynda@okalrel.org 0 comments links to this post

 


News from editor Richard Janzen, on Part 5: Far Arena progress. Meanwhile, I am working on first draft of Part 6: Avim's Oath, which I share just a bit of the rough-draft-in-progress from, below, as a GIF. It's sooo hard to wait until the book's out to get the fun of imagining people reading bits! Bad, bad leaky author.

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posted by Lynda at 19:40   0 comments permalink comment? e-mail lynda@okalrel.org 0 comments links to this post

 
Artist LW Perkins is working on cover art for Far Arena, part 5 of the ORU saga. We are corresponding about possible subject matter.

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posted by Lynda at 07:26   0 comments permalink comment? e-mail lynda@okalrel.org 0 comments links to this post