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Mon Mar 30, 2009 — by Glenn Hauman
Scribe nominees announced; DeCandido gets IAMTW GrandMaster
The International Association of Media Tie-In Writers is pleased to announce this year's nominees for the 2009 Scribe Awards, which honor excellence in licensed tie-in writing—novels based on TV shows, movies, comics, and games. In addition, Keith R.A. DeCandido, whose Farscape series for BOOM! has just gone to third printings on the first two issues and a second printing on #3, will be awarded the IAMTW Grandmaster Award at the awards ceremony at the San Diego Comic-Con-- assuming he can get a hotel room.
The nominees for this year's awards are:
Best General Fiction Original
Burn Notice: The Fix by Tod Goldberg
Criminal Minds: Finishing School by Max Allan Collins
CSI: Headhunter by Greg Cox
Best General Fiction Adapted
Death Defying Acts by Greg Cox
Indiana Jones And The Kingdom Of The Crystal Skull by James Rollins
The Tudors: King Takes Queen by Elizabeth Massie
The Wackness by Dale C. Phillips
X-Files: I Want To Believe by Max Allan Collins
Best Speculative Fiction Original
Ghost Whisperer: Revenge by Doranna Durgin
Ravenloft: The Covenant, Heaven's Bones by Samantha Henderson
Stargate SG-1: Hydra by Holly Scott & Jamie Duncan
Star Trek: Terok Nor, Day Of The Vipers by James Swallow
Best Speculative Fiction Adapted
Hellboy II: The Golden Army by Bob Greenberger
The Mutant Chronicles by Matt Forbeck
Star Wars - The Clone Wars: Wild Space by Karen Miller
Underworld: Rise Of The Lycans by Greg Cox
Best Young Adult Original
Dr. Who: The Eyeless by Lance Parkin
Primeval: Shadow Of The Jaguar by Steven Savile
Disney Club Penguin: Stowaway! Adventures At Sea by Tracey West
Best Young Adult Adapted
Iron Man: The Junior Novel by Stephen D. Sullivan
The Dark Knight: The Junior Novel by Stacia Deutsch and Rhody Cohen
Journey To The Center Of The Earth 3D by Tracey West
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Comments (4)
Jenifer Rosenberg (3:54 PM on Mon Mar 30, 2009)
The scribe Awards also include the Gaming Scribe Awards - for novels based on games (these will be given out at GenCon in August).
Special Gaming Scribe - Best Original
EBERRON: THE INQUISITIVES, THE DARKWOOD MASK by Jeff LaSala
DRAGONLANCE: DEATH MARCH by Jean Rabe
EBERRON: THE DOOM OF KINGS by Don Bassingthwaite
WARHAMMER: ELFSLAYER by Nathan Long
Special Gaming Scribe - Best Adapted
THE WORLD OF WARCRAFT: BEYOND THE DARK PORTAL by Aaron Rosenberg & Christie Golden
THE MUTANT CHRONICLES by Matt Forbeck
METAL GEAR SOLID by Raymond Benson
Jenifer Rosenberg (8:28 PM on Mon Mar 30, 2009)
You're missing the bottom half of your list. :)
Glenn Hauman (10:36 PM on Mon Mar 30, 2009)
No, it's all here, just after the fold. Although I did miss the Gaming Scribe nominees.
Anonymous (9:02 AM on Wed Apr 1, 2009)
Which you still haven't added.