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2012 Bram Stoker Award Winner Announced!
Last night the Horror Writers Association announced the winners for the 2012 Bram Stoker Awards. The awards were presented at a banquet in New Orleans as part of the World Horror Convention. The winner for Superior Achievement in a Novel is The Drowning Girl by Caitlín R. Kiernan (Roc).
You can see the full press release of winners in all categories on the newly re-designed Horror Writers Association website.
The Drowning Girl was also nominated for the 2012 Nebula Award and is still in the running for the 2012 Shirley Jackson Award and the 2013 Locus Fantasy Award. The Stoker win also puts The Drowning Girl on our own Award Winning Books by Women Authors list.
Our congratulations to Caitlín R. Kiernan and all the other nominees. What do you think of this result? Have you read it? Here on WWEnd it’s been read 18 times and has a solid four-star rating and we’ve got five reviews for you to check out.
2012 Bram Stoker Award Nominees
The Horror Writers Association (HWA) has announced the nominees for the 2012 Bram Stoker Award.
SUPERIOR ACHIEVEMENT IN A NOVEL
- Bottled Abyss – Benjamin Kane Ethridge (Redrum Horror)
- NightWhere – John Everson (Samhain Publishing)
- The Drowning Girl – Caitlin R. Kiernan (Roc)
- The Haunted – Bentley Little (Signet)
- Inheritance – Joe McKinney (Evil Jester Press)
SUPERIOR ACHIEVEMENT IN A FIRST NOVEL
- Charlotte Markham and the House of Darkling – Michael Boccacino (William Morrow)
- Wide Open – Deborah Coates (Tor Books)
- The Legend of the Pumpkin Thief – Charles Day (Noble YA Publishers LLC)
- A Requiem for Dead Flies – Peter N. Dudar (Nightscape Press)
- Bad Glass – Richard Gropp (Ballantine/Del Rey)
- Life Rage – L. L. Soares (Nightscape Press)
SUPERIOR ACHIEVEMENT IN A YOUNG ADULT NOVEL
- The Diviners – Libba Bray (Little Brown)
- I Hunt Killers – Barry Lyga (Little Brown)
- Flesh & Bone – Jonathan Maberry (Simon & Schuster)
- I Kissed a Ghoul – Michael McCarty (Noble Romance Publishing)
- The Raven Boys – Maggie Stiefvater (Scholastic Press)
- A Bad Day for Voodoo – Jeff Strand (Sourcebooks)
See the official press release for a complete list of all nominees in all categories. What do you think of this list? The Drowning Girl has another nomination to go with the 2012 Nebula it got earlier this week.
