la_marquise | Awards and Mountains and Horus, Oh My!

I'm back. And reeling. Milford and Provence were both excellent and I'll blog more about them later. But first, as some of you have heard, while I was away, I won an award. The Sydney J Bounds Award for Best Newcomer, to be precise, a juried award administered by the British Fantasy Society, and formerly called the Icarus Award. In the past it's been won by Joe Hill, Nancy Collins, Maggie Furey, Poppy Z Brite and Scott Lynch and I am gobsmacked to be in such company. (The jury are clearly mad, but wonderful and I am deeply humbled and grateful that they liked Living With Ghosts so much.) I was in Wales over Fantasy Con, but

desperance kindly accepted for me and told the world, and was, as ever, a gentleman, scholar and all-round Good Chap. (He denies being any kind of acrobat, which he subcontracts to his cats.)
He passed the statuette on to me just before we set off for Provence and Horus promptly sat on it. So Chaz took pictures, which he has kindly let me use here:

Picture copyright Chaz Brenchley

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Wow! And many congratulations!

Edited 2010-10-05 08:35 (UTC)

Whoops: thanks for the heads-up on the typo. And thank you.

Oh hurrah - congratulations!!

Cute. And many congratulations.

That's awesome! Congratulations!

Congratulations - you deserve it . But does Horus know that it's not his and will he give it back?

He got bored after a while: it isn't edible.

Congratulations again -- and it is much nicer looking than that awful bust of Lovecraft (which is the World Fantasy Award, I think?) Well done!

Congratulations!!!! And I LOVE the photo - Horus looks like he's immediately accepted the award as his personal tribute. ;)

He's a very handsome cat. Daft, but beautiful.

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Congratulations! And such august company.

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The company stuns me.

Congratulations! :)

Thank you!

Horus looks very proud of you.

As are we all.

Congratulations on a well-deserved award!

Thank you.

Congratulations!

anothe congrats :) and that's a much better photo of the cat. can see how content he is. his award now!

He does smug very well!

Yay! And congratulations of the well-deserved award!

Congratulations, very well-deserved.

"Award-Winning Author" is going to look good on the cover of the next one ;) Congratulations (and to Horus, who I'm sure contributed in some way).

He shed mightily on the page proofs, certainly. And purred lots.

Congratulations! An award you certainly deserve!

YAY! Brava!

Congratulations! That's a very handsome award and a very handsome cat.

Congratulations! And what a cat...very impressive.

Thank you! He's impressive when he's quiet. Otherwise... He's a lovely boy, but not the brightest cat in the world and he has a fine range of very odd sounds (he insists on eating and talking at the same time, for a start).

Yay! Congrats.

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CONGRATULATIONS!

(The cuteness of the moggy must also be noted :-)

He's a lovely cat. Daft, but lovely.

Horus looks inordinately pleased with himself. As you should be! Congratulations, well deserved.

Thank you.
He does look smug, doesn't he? He loves to have his photo taken (cameras being one of the few things he isn't scared of).

Excellent - and well deserved :-)

Hugo says he thinks awards should be made of tuna.

All three of ours agree with that idea and think it should be put into action forthwith.

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