Awards and Mountains and Horus, Oh My!

[la_marquise]

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

Comments

[akicif.livejournal.com]

Wow! And many congratulations!

[oreouk.livejournal.com]

Oh hurrah - congratulations!!

[bellinghman.livejournal.com]

Cute. And many congratulations.

[andrewducker]

That's awesome! Congratulations!

[ms-cataclysm.livejournal.com]

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

[chilperic.livejournal.com]

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

[stephanieburgis.livejournal.com]

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

[gummitch.livejournal.com]

Congratulations! And such august company.

[http://users.livejournal.com/la_marquise_de_/]

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

[http://users.livejournal.com/la_marquise_de_/]

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

[http://users.livejournal.com/la_marquise_de_/]

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

[http://users.livejournal.com/la_marquise_de_/]

The company stuns me.

[bellinghman.livejournal.com]

True feline beauty seems to require a certain amount of daftness. Certainly, Kosh was like that.

(Talia can pull a door open. Kosh never quite got it - he knew the vague theory, but the practice, no.)

[leita-love-bug.livejournal.com]

Congratulations! :)

[http://users.livejournal.com/la_marquise_de_/]

Doors and cupboards Horus has mastered. Common sense, however, is not in his repertoire. I suppose I should be grateful he's not scared of that statuette.

[http://users.livejournal.com/la_marquise_de_/]

Thank you!

[bellinghman.livejournal.com]

*snicker*

Indeed.

Oh, and welcome back, you and Chaz. A smidgeon too late for Laura Anne, but don't worry, Talia clambered all over her instead.

[lil-shepherd.livejournal.com]

Horus looks very proud of you.

As are we all.

[pbray.livejournal.com]

Congratulations on a well-deserved award!

[http://users.livejournal.com/la_marquise_de_/]

Thank you.

[las.livejournal.com]

Congratulations!

[the-faery-queen.livejournal.com]

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

[http://users.livejournal.com/la_marquise_de_/]

Thank you.

[http://users.livejournal.com/la_marquise_de_/]

He does smug very well!

[sleigh.livejournal.com]

Yay! And congratulations of the well-deserved award!