In just a couple of hours time the winners of the Prime Minister’s Awards will be announced in Melbourne. Stolen is shortlisted for the new and absolutely fabulous YA section of this award, but so are many other totally brilliant books!
I wish all the authors the very best of luck, both for the YA award and the other awards!
And I wish you, dear reader, lollipops and laughter,
Lucy x
P.S. Sorry for the lack of blog posts of late, but I’m back on track now ;-)
Hey, guess what Gang!?
Both of my books have recently been listed for brilliant book awards!
Firstly, FLYAWAY has been longlisted for the lovely and prestigious UK Literacy Award. This is a fab and important award, voted for by teachers and with the aim of picking a book that uses language in a particularly evocative or imaginative way. I loved playing with the writing and imagery of Flyaway…it was what I enjoyed most about this book! As I said over on my other insideadog.com.au blog post, I’m now crossing my fingers that my quiet, feathered book makes it to the next stage. There are wings inside this book, ones just itching to stretch and fly.
The other exciting news is that STOLEN has been shortlisted for the Inky Awards. This is brilliant news as these awards are absolutely wonderful. They are voted for by teens so are a really good indication of what you guys out there really like to read. I’m so honoured to have made it onto this shortlist (and with such other fab books for company too!) And I’m really very grateful. THANK YOU kind and lovely judges.
Now …. If YOU feel like voting for STOLEN to WIN this amazing award…you can!
Check out the voting on the insideadog website. There are great prizes to win if you vote too! You can vote for it here!
Anyway, I’m meant to be writing Book 3, instead of getting so excited about my other two books that I want to jump around my living room like a pogo stick. Must get back to the tappety-tap…
Wishing you delight and dancing,
Lucyx
OK, I’m kind of getting into the hang of this blog idea now. I thought I might tell you a bit about the kinds of things that are going on in my writing life right now. There are a few excitements!
Firstly, for the month of October, I am the official Writer in Residence for the fabulous Inside A Dog blogspot (part of the Centre for Youth Literature, Australia). This is really exciting because anyone who really knows me knows I’ve never been the most technologically minded of gals. But now? Look at me go! I have a wonderful new website which I’m blogging on right now, plus I am Writer in Residence for this other fabulous site. Soon you won’t know me…I’ll just be known as Ms Geek! So anyway, check out my other blogging site for the month of October HERE. Also, while you’re there, check out some of the other really cool info on this site….there are some lovely reviews and whatnot!
While we are talking about the fantastic Inside A Dog website, let me tell you about a linked piece of information that is really rather exciting. STOLEN has been longlisted for the Inky Awards. These are such brilliant awards. They are set up by the Centre for Youth Literature, are international awards for teenage literature, and are voted for by YOU (well, if you’re under 20!). The shortlist for these awards is announced on the 12th October, so please, everyone reading this cross your fingers now and say a small word of encouragement under your breath that STOLEN makes it onto this!
So, in other news? Well there’s some really exciting news about the possibility of making STOLEN into a film, but I’m not sure how much of this I can reveal yet, sooooo…..let’s just keep you hanging on this one for the moment. But let me just say I let out a small squeal of delight whenever I think about what’s going on here.
Tomorrow I’m off to the Bath Children’s Literature Festival to see Cornelia Funke and Maggie Stiefvater (maybe even meet this fabulous lady, who is providing the author endorsement on the US paperback edition of STOLEN!).
I’ll blog about my adventures here soon.
And then next week I am embarking upon the New Writing Regime. This is a self-imposed regime of boot camp for me to get my third book written. Book 3 is currently being a little pest of a creature, and it’s now time to beat him into ship shape. I’ll no doubt be blogging about the New Writing Regime over the coming few weeks, so this won’t be the last you hear of this. Mwahahaha (that’s my impression of a scary man laugh!).
Anyway, I’ve waffled on here for far too long already, and yeah, I haven’t told you all the stuff that’s going on in my life, but I think I’ve told you enough for now…. so it’s time for me to make like a tree….
Adios Amigos!
Thoughtfulness and friendship,
Lucyx
This is really exciting to announce! Stolen has battled fierce competition to make it onto the inaugural Prime Minister’s Literary Award for Young Adult fiction in Australia. The Prime Minister’s Literary Awards celebrate the contribution of Australian literature to the nation’s cultural and intellectual life.
Lucy is especially thrilled about this award as she is super excited to see the book getting recognised in her home country, Australia!
There are seven shortlisted books for this category, and all of them are fantastic. You can check out the competition on the official website, here - http://www.arts.gov.au/books/pmliteraryawards10
Lucy is thrilled to announce that her debut novel, Stolen, has WON the 2010 Branford Boase award!! This is a really special award that celebrates the best debut novel for young people published in the UK over the last year! It’s a real honour to be chosen for this, and Lucy is very grateful.
For more info and photos, see the Branford Boase award website.
We are thrilled to anounce that Ty MacFarlane, anti-hero of STOLEN, has been nominated for BEST VILLAIN for the Indigo Teen Read Awards!
This is a fantastic new award that has been organised by Indigo Booksellers in Canada and , the best bit of all … this award is decided by YOU! That’s right, you can vote for Ty to win the best villain award right here on the Indigo website – http://www.teenreadawards.ca
There are also heaps of other fun categories you can vote for in these awards, including best hottie and best liplock!
Sooooo, get voting and get your voice heard! There are prizes and giveaways too for casting your vote – every day you vote, you can win a new prize! Ty would be most enormously grateful to receive your votes! He’s never won anything in his life before, so he’d be thrilled to win this! Please vote for him here!
Lucy is delighted to have won, and accepted, the Hull Children’s Book Award (Key Stage 3) for her debut novel, Stolen.
Lucy travelled up to Hull for a special award ceremony which was attended by teens from the local schools, as well as the rather fabulous local librarians.
The Hull Children’s Book Award is a special award because the overall winner is decided purely by the teen vote! Lucy was presented with a beautiful picture by a local artist to mark the occasion.
STOLEN joins six other fantastic novels on this impressive short list for this fantastic award.
Not least, STOLEN is sharing the short list with “stable mate” Rachel Ward, another Chicken House chicken and author of the fabulous Numbers. STOLEN’s editor Imogen Cooper is also the editor of Numbers, so a double celebration for this very talented lady too!
What a thrill to be on this very exciting list!
Check out this talented list for this year’s Branford Boase Award here
Lucy will be visiting Australia from the 5th – 25th April to coincide with the Australian launch of her second novel, Flyaway, and to celebrate the recent CBCA shortlisting for Stolen.
She will be visiting and talking to various schools and bookshops while she is out there, and also holding an official launch party for Flyaway. For more details, see the diary page on this website.
If anyone would like to get in touch with Lucy while she is in Australia, or if you are a shop that wants her to sign stock, then please contact her via her email address – lucy@lucychristopher.com – or via her Australian publishers (publicist Sarah Hatton at Scholastic Australia on 02 9413 8378). Please note that Lucy will only be visiting Melbourne and Sydney as part of this trip.
This is really exciting news, and we are absolutely thrilled that STOLEN has been shortlisted for the 2010 award for Older Readers by the Children’s Book Council of Australia. What an absolute delight to be chosen!
Lucy is especially thrilled to be shortlisted for this award as she grew up in Australia, spending most of her life in Melbourne (where she still has a base). This award is one of the most prestigious in Australian Children’s Literature, and the result is followed eagerly by librarians, booksellers, parents and teens. It means such a great deal to be among such a talented short list for this year, including such brilliant writers as David Metzenthen and Judith Clarke.
There are six books in total that have been shortlisted, and the results will be announced August 20th this year. If you want to visit the CBCA website to get more information, the address is here – http://cbca.org.au/ShortList.htm
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