Frostborn: 2016-2017 Young Hoosier Book Award Nominees

My novel, Frostborn, book one in the Thrones & Bones series, has just been listed as a nominee in the 2016-2017 Young Hoosier Book Award Nominees in the Middle Grade category. The Young Hoosier Book Award is administered by Indiana Library Federation. Each year the YHBA committee selects twenty titles in the category of Picture Books, Intermediate, and Middle Grade. Indiana students serving in grades K-8 then vote on their favorite book. Any Indiana student can vote, provided they have read 5 of the 20 books in the Middle Grade category. I'm thrilled to be on this list, alongside many great works, including books by friends Jonathan Auxier, Holly Black, and Brandon Sanderson.

This is the third awards nomination for Frostborn. The novel was previously nominated for Children's Literature Association of Utah's Beehive Book Award and is a current nominee in the Nebraska Library Association's Golden Sower Awards.

Frostborn: Nebraska Golden Sower Award Intermediate Nominee 2016-17

I am enormously exited to announce that Frostborn has been selected as one of the Nebraska Golden Sower Award Nominee Titles for 2016-2017 in the "Intermediate" category!!!

The Golden Sower Award is the children's choice literary award for the state of Nebraska. The award's sponsors, the Nebraska Library Association, hope the program will sow seeds which stimulate children's thinking, introduce different types of literature, encourage independent reading, increase library skills, and foster an appreciation for excellence in writing and illustrating.

The full list of nominees can be found  here. The Golden Sower Award website is undergoing an overhaul, but information about the award can be found here. I am just thrilled with this announcement and want to extend my congratulations to all my fellow nominees!

Frostborn: Best Books for Children

I missed this when it happened but apparently Lift Bridge Books of Brockport, NY includedFrostborn in its ABC Best Books for Children & Teens Too holiday gift guide.

Which makes the total Frostborn accolade list:

• Starred Review in Publisher's Weekly.
• PW Picks" Books of the Week for week of August 4th
• Editor's Choice of Amazon for the month of August
• 2015-2016 Beehive Book Award Nominee - Children's Fiction
• io9's "Must-Read Science Fiction and Fantasy Books for August"
• Bank Street College of Education's Best Children's Books of the Year
• Imagination Soup "Best Books for 10 Year Olds"
• SciFiChick’s Best of 2014
• Aleksandra's Corner: My Top Ten Authors I've Only Read One Book From But NEED to Read More
• Aleksandra's Corner Top 10 of 2014
• A Book Long Enough: Percy Jackson Read-Alikes: Mythical Fantasy for Kids Ages 9-12
• Tween Us: 5 books tweens will love that make great gifts
• Things Matter 2014 Survey: Best 2014 debut. Favorite Cover.
• Kidspace (Springfield, Missouri district library): A Guide to the Good Stuff - Fantasy Ages 9-12
• Fantasy Book Critic Mahir’s Top Reads of 2014 : TOP TEN DEBUTS OF 2014
• Bookworm Etc Best of 2014
• Edmonds Booktalk: Award-worthy books to add to your reading list
• ABC Best Books for Children & Teens Too (Lift Bridge Books)
• Staff Pick/Recommended Read at 13 bookstores and libraries nationwide

Frostborn: Beehive Book Award Nominee

I have just learned that Frostbornis one of ten nominees for the 2015-16 Beehive Book Awards in the category of Children's Fiction! The award is sponsored by the Children's Literature Association of Utah. The full list of nominees in the category are: 

Children’s Fiction:

1. The Blood Guard by Carter Roy
2. EL Deafo by Cece Bell
3. The Fourteenth Goldfish by Jennifer L. Holm
4. Frostborn by Lou Anders
5. The Great Trouble: A Mystery of London, the Blue Death and a Boy Called Eel by Deborah Hopkinson
6. Loot by Jude Watson
7. The Night Gardener by Jonathan Auxier
8. Spell Robbers by Mathew J. Kirby
9. Under the Egg by Laura Marx Fitzgerald
10. The Vanishing Coin by Kate Egan

Congratulations to all the nominees!

Books I Edited and Art Directed in 2013

It's that time again, and so for your award consideration, here are a list of the Pyr books for which I served as both editor and art director in 2013. Also provided are a list of cover artists - please consider their fine work in your nominations.

Power Under Pressure (The Society of Steam)
Written by Andrew P. Mayer
Cover Illustration by Justin Gerard


The Crossing (Blood of the Lamb)
Written by Mandy Hager
Cover Illustration by Larry Rostant

The Devil's Looking Glass (Swords of Albion)
Written by Mark Chadbourn
Cover Illustration by Chris McGrath

Earth Girl
Written by Janet Edwards
Cover Illustration by Himitsuhana

Reaper's Legacy (Toxic City)
Written by Tim Lebbon
Art by Steve Stone


Shield of Sea and Space (The Chaos Knight)
Written by Erin Hoffman
Cover Illustration by Dehong He

Never (Lightbringer)
Written by K. D. McEntire
Cover Illustration by Sam Weber

Nebula Awards Showcase 2013
Edited by Catherine Asaro
Cover Illustration by Julie Dillon


In Thunder Forged: Iron Kingdoms Chronicles (The Fall of Llael)
Written by Ari Marmell
Cover Illustration by Jon Sullivan

The Secret of Abdu El Yezdi (A Burton & Swinburne Adventure)
Written by Mark Hodder
Cover Illustration by Jon Sullivan

Kindred and Wings (A Shifted World Novel)
Written by Philippa Ballatine
Cover Illustration by Cynthia Shepherd

Wrath-Bearing Tree (A Tournament of Shadows)
Written by James Enge
Cover Illustration by Steve Stone

23 Years on Fire: A Cassandra Kresnov Novel
Written by Joel Shepherd
Cover Illustration by Stephan Martiniere

The Scroll of Years: A Gaunt and Bone Novel
Written by Chris Willrich
Cover Illustration by Kerem Beyit

The Diamond Deep (Ruby's Song)
Written by Brenda Cooper
Cover Illustration by John Picacio

The Osiris Curse: A Tweed & Nightingale Adventure
Written by Paul Crilley
Cover Illustration by Cliff Nielsen

The God Tattoo: Untold Tales from the Twilight Reign
Written by Tom Lloyd
Cover Illustration by Larry Rostant

Contagion (Toxic City)
Written by Tim Lebbon
Cover Illustration by Steve Stone

Lost Covenant: A Widdershins Adventure
Written by Ari Marmell
Cover Illustration by Jason Chan



The Doctor and the Dinosaurs (A Weird West Tale)
Written by Mike Resnick
Cover Illustration by Andrew Bosley