Comments on: Aurealis Awards 2007

By: Anonymous

Anonymous — Sun, 27 Jan 2008 22:51:00 +0000

Congrats on the short listing and the positive comment from the judges anyway, Glenda. I don’t think last year’s judges ever produced a report – at least, I never saw one. Perhaps that was partly because some of their decisions were considered a little contentious!

The choice of winners is usually extremely dependent on judges’ personal taste, or so I hear. I was pleased that the judges’ reports this year gave some criteria as a basis for their choices.

By: Satima Flavell

Satima Flavell — Sun, 27 Jan 2008 19:14:00 +0000

It’s like any other contest, Glenda – it all depends on which entry that particular bunch of judges was able to agree on on that particular day. On another day, with other judges, you could well have won. You, or Karen, or Jenny, or maybe someone else from the short list. When they’re looking at the eight or ten best books published in the genre for the year, how can they definitively decide which is really and truly the best?

I was terribly disappointed for you but one day, it will be your turn, I’ll bet:-)

By: Glenda Larke

Glenda Larke — Sun, 27 Jan 2008 02:57:00 +0000

Ah, Ru, even Homer nods…

Cheryl, judges can get away with that *grin*…

By: Cheryl

Cheryl — Sun, 27 Jan 2008 01:46:00 +0000

it finalised the trilogy??

By: hrugaar

hrugaar — Sun, 27 Jan 2008 00:11:00 +0000

Yes, it was good that they put up the judges’ comments, and I was pleased they said such nice things about your work. 🙂

Then again, I read the ‘excerpted’ bit from the Lian Hearn novel on amazon.co.uk … and I’m hoping it was a condensed (abridged) version of the text and not the original; because otherwise I’m at a loss to see quite how the judges’ eulogies about writing style apply. Oh well. Maybe I’ve fallen so far behind now that I’ve become a dinosaur. :S