I’m a finalist for SJV Award!

Sharon Manssen

SJV_AwardI found out today that my book Tyrelia has been successful in getting into the final ballot for the 2020 Sir Julius Vogel (SJV) Awards in the category of ‘Best Youth Novel’.

This award is administered by the Science Fiction and Fantasy Association of NZ (SFFANZ). Voting will be open to members of SFFANZ only, and the awards will be ‘presented’ at a ceremony during CoNZealand. Disappointingly, because of COVID-19, CoNZealand has been turned into an online event. It was originally planned to be hosted in Wellington and chaired by the one-and-only George R R Martin! I had been hoping to get a handshake and launch my 3rd book, Golden City whilst there, but never mind …

There are 5 finalists in this category. I know a couple of other authors who are also finalists in this category, and they are amazing, so it would be a huge achievement if I were to win.

Thanks for everyone who nominated me, allowing me to get this far.

THANK YOU!

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Published by Sharon Manssen

A fantasy fan since being read 'The Hobbit' by her father at the fireside at the age of six, she has been an avid bookworm her entire life. When the idea for her current trilogy popped into her head, there was never any doubt that it would be in the fantasy genre. Unfortunately, real life gets in the way, and writing has to fit around her full-time job at a global engineering consultancy and family life (husband and two young adult children). It took ten years to pen her first book, Medar, which was a finalist for the Tom Fitzgibbon Award in 2015 and was published in 2017. Her second book, Tyrelia was nominated in the Young Adult Fiction category in the 2019 Sir Julius Vogel Awards. Her third book, Golden City, is due out in 2021.

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