{"id":416,"date":"2007-04-29T10:21:00","date_gmt":"2007-04-29T10:21:00","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/johnpicacio.com\/onthefront\/2007\/04\/29\/locus-award-noms-x-2\/"},"modified":"2014-12-14T18:49:39","modified_gmt":"2014-12-14T18:49:39","slug":"locus-award-noms-x-2","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"http:\/\/johnpicacio.com\/onthefront\/2007\/04\/29\/locus-award-noms-x-2\/","title":{"rendered":"Locus Award Noms x 2!"},"content":{"rendered":"

<\/p> $\"\"$ <\/a>I found out while I was in Europe last week that I\u2019m a finalist for two Locus Awards<\/a>. Wow! So I\u2019m a finalist for Best Artist and for Best Art Book (COVER STORY: THE ART OF JOHN PICACIO). Couldn\u2019t be more pleased, and I\u2019m very grateful for the kind consideration. Thanks so much! It\u2019s been quite an amazing six weeks over here\u2026.getting married; doing honeymoons on two continents; being nominated for two Hugo Awards, and now discovering that I\u2019m a finalist for two Locus Awards. Again, I\u2019m very grateful.\n

If you\u2019re curious about the art book, COVER STORY is still available from the big stores (Amazon.com; Barnes & Noble; Borders; Books-A-Million), but please consider some of these terrific independent booksellers as well. Many of them have a few autographed copies remaining, at no extra charge\u2026 Borderlands Books<\/a>, DreamHaven Books<\/a>, Bud Plant<\/a>, The Other Change of Hobbit<\/a>, and many more. While I was in the Netherlands last week, I signed lots of copies for The American Book Center<\/a> which is located in Amsterdam. (Thanks, Karin!) So if you live in or near the Netherlands, or saw the book at the Elf Fantasy Fair, they\u2019ve got signed copies now.<\/p>\n

$\"\"$ <\/a>One more note \u2014 three cheers for MonkeyBrain Books<\/a>, as they\u2019re the publisher of my art book, and it\u2019s terrific to share the book\u2019s Hugo and Locus Award noms with them.
$\"\"$ <\/a>In addition, MonkeyBrain\u2019s MYTHS FOR THE MODERN AGE by Win Eckert, and BLOOD & THUNDER: THE LIFE & ART OF ROBERT E. HOWARD by Mark Finn both finished as finalists in the Locus Awards\u2019 Best Non-Fiction category.
$\"\"$ <\/a>I was fortunate to have the opportunity to illustrate the covers for both of those, as well as Jeffrey Ford\u2019s THE EMPIRE OF ICE CREAM (Golden Gryphon), which is a finalist for Best Collection. Congrats to all!<\/p>\n<\/body>","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"