Legend Award Winners

The 2013 David Gemmell Legend Awards winners have been announced:

The Legend Award for Best Fantasy Novel

• The Blinding Knife, Brent Weeks (Orbit)

• The Red Country, Joe Abercrombie (Gollancz)
• Stormdancer, Jay Kristoff (Pan Macmillan UK)
• King of Thorns, Mark Lawrence (HarperCollins/Voyager)
• The Gathering of the Lost, Helen Lowe (Orbit)

The Morningstar Award for Best Fantasy Newcomer

• Malice, John Gwynne (Pan Macmillan UK)

• Throne of the Crescent Moon, Saladin Ahmed (Gollancz / DAW)
• The Red Knight, Miles Cameron (Gollancz)
• Irenicon, Aidan Harte (Jo Fletcher Books)
• Stormdancer, Jay Kristoff (Pan Macmillan UK)

The Ravenheart Award for Best Fantasy Cover Art:

• Didier Graffet & Dave Senior for the cover of The Red Country by Joe Abercrombie  (Gollancz)

• Dominic Harman for the cover of Legion of Shadow by Michael J. Ward  (Gollancz)
• Clint Langley for the cover of Besieged by Rowenna Cory Daniells  (Solaris)
• Silas Manhood for the cover of The Blinding Knife by Brent Weeks  (Orbit)
• Colin Thomas for the cover of Stormdancer by Jay Kristoff  (Pan Macmillan UK)
• Stephen Youll for the cover of The Black Mausoleum by Stephen Deas  (Gollancz)

The winners were announced October 31, 2013 in a ceremony at the World Fantasy Convention, at the Metropole Hotel in Brighton, UK.