2017 Darrell Awards Results Announced

2017  Darrell Awards Announced

The 2017 Darrell Awards Jury is pleased to announce the winners and other recognized works, as follows:

The new inductee into the Dal Coger Memorial Hall of Fame is CINDA WILLIAMS CHIMA for her 5 book Heirs series of Young Adult Fantasy, epecially The Enchanter Heir and The Sorcerer Heir.

2017 Hall of Fame plaque

For the 2017 Darrell Award for Best Other Media, the Winner is Crossed+ One Hundred # 2 by Alan Moore.
First Runner-Up is Shinobi: Ninja Princess # 4-6 by Martheus Wade.

2017 Other Media plaque

For the 2017 Darrell Award for Best Novella, the winner is Fifty Shades of Grays by Steven Barnes. (This novella appeared in Lightspeed magazine, issue 73.)
First Runner-Up is All the Way from Memphis by Jeff C. Stevenson. (This novella appeared in Hypnos magazine, volume 5, issue 2.)

2017 Best Novella plaque

For the 2017 Darrell Award for Best Short Story, the winner is The Nature of Ghosts by Carolyn McSparren.
First Runner-Up is Drive-In Miss Daisy by Phyllis Appleby. (Both of these short stories appeared in Malice in Memphis: Ghost Stories).

2017 Best Short Story plaque

For the 2017 Darrell Award for Best Novel, the Winner is Way Out West by Frank Tuttle.
First Runner-Up is Brotherhood of the Wheel by R.S. Belcher.
Additional Finalist is Eagle in Exile by Alan Smale.

2017 Best Novel plaque

We highly recommend each of these works, as they are all excellent stories, well-told, with detailed characters.

This concludes the work of the 2017 Darrell Awards Jury. Please check our website (darrellawards.wordpress.com) in July for information about the 2018 Darrell Awards. In the meantime, please go and buy these wonderful books and read, read, read!

Author R.S. Belcher Is Coming to MidSouthCon 35

I’m pleased to announce that R.S. Belcher will be attending  MidSouthCon 35 at least on Saturday March 25, 2017.

His novel Brotherhood of the Wheel is a Finalist for the 2017 Darrell Award for Best Midsouth Novel. That book combines a modern version of the Knights Templar, the Wild Hunt, the Triple Goddess, and many other elements into a highly-enjoyable thrilling story.

He’s most well-known for his series of Weird Western novels that includes Six Gun Tarot and 2 others so far; and let us not forget his 3rd series that starts with Nightwise.

He’s not listed on the convention’s publicity because he’s just completed arrangements to attend. He will be at the Darrell Awards panel at 3pm on Saturday and at the Banquet starting at 5pm that night.

Also, you can look for him on Pro Row and in the pocket program book (and the con’s calendar or scheduling app), as well. (Pro Row is the space set aside at the convention for authors to sign and sell their own works.)

Please check back here as the convention approaches for news of other 2017 Finalists who have confirmed that they will be attending.

Author R.S. Belcher

2017 Darrell Awards Finalists Announced

2017 Darrell Awards Finalists Announced

The 2017 Darrell Awards Jury held its final meeting last night and we wrapped up our deliberations. It gives us great pleasure to announce the following.

The newest winner of the Dal Coger Memorial Hall of Fame Award is Cinda Williams Chima. This was given for her books The Enchanter Heir and The Sorcerer Heir, two young adult novels that include scenes set within our area. She joins a distinguished roster of previous Hall of Fame winners, which you can see here.

For Best Midsouth Short Story, our 2017 Finalists are “Drive-In Miss Daisy” by Phyllis Appleby and “The Nature of Ghosts” by Carolyn McSparren. (Both appeared in the anthology Malice in Memphis: Ghost Stories.)

For Best Midsouth Novella, our 2017 Finalists are “All the Way from Memphis” by Jeff C. Stevenson (in Hypnos, volume 5, issue 2) and “Fifty Shades of Grays” by Steven Barnes (in Lightspeed magazine, issue 73).

For Best Midsouth Other Media, our 2017 Finalists are “Crossed+ One Hundred #2” by Alan Moore and “Shinobi: Ninja Princess (issues 4 through 6)” by Martheus Wade. Both of these Other Media Finalists are comics and should be available from your usual comic book suppliers.

For Best Midsouth Novel, our 2017 Finalists are Brotherhood of the Wheel by R.S. Belcher, Eagle in Exile by Alan P. Smale, and Way Out West by Frank Tuttle.

If we have (or can find) contact information for these Finalists, they each will be invited to attend MidSouthCon on Saturday March 25th, 2017, for free to participate in a panel on the Darrell Awards to take place at 3pm AND to enjoy the Banquet at 5pm at which the Darrell Awards will be presented. For details of MidSouthCon, please see their website at midsouthcon.org.

Congratulations to all the Finalists!

Please check back here AFTER MidSouthCon to find out who won. And be sure to go now and buy their works so you can start reading them to see whether you agree with the Jury’s decisions.

Cinda Williams Chima