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Solaris lead award nominations plus an exclusive Joey Hi-Fi cover reveal

Following the announcement of this year’s British Fantasy Awards nominations over the weekend Solaris Books are delighted to reveal that we are jointly topping the list with Jo Fletcher Books.

Solaris authors have been nominated across the following three categories:

Best Fantasy Novel (the Robert Holdstock Award)
Blood and Feathers: Rebellion, Lou Morgan (Solaris)

Best Anthology
End of the Road, Jonathan Oliver (ed.) (Solaris)

Best Newcomer (the Sydney J. Bounds Award)
Libby McGugan, for The Eidolon (Solaris)

The award winners will be announced at FantasyCon 2014, which takes place in York from September 5 – 7th.

Solaris would also like to congratulate Joey Hi-Fi on his nomination for Best Artist. Joey recently won the BSFA award for best cover artwork for Dream London and, in honour of this further recognition, we are delighted to exclusively reveal that the cover for sequel Dream Paris by Tony Ballantyne will once again feature exquisite cover art from Joey Hi-Fi:

You can check out the full list of nominees over on the British Fantasy Society’s webpage now.

A huge congratulations from everyone at Solaris to this year’s nominees – we look forward to raising a toast to the winners in September.

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‘End of the Road’ cover artist Nicolas Delort shortlisted for the Spectrum Fantastic Art Award

“A thing of beauty is a joy forever”
– John Keats and, um, Willy Wonka

Covers are something that we pride ourselves on here at Solaris Towers and we’re privileged to work with so many fantastic artists and designers, who make our books look beautiful on shelves while ensuring that the contents have the wrapping they deserve.

But just look at this. LOOK AT IT!

This was the cover for our short story anthology End of the Road, which came out last year – and we’re very happy to see that Nicolas Delort has been shortlisted for the Spectrum Fantastic Art Award for hiswork on this piece of artistic genius!

Good luck to all the nominees, but especially Nicolas … because we like him.