The Legend Award for Best Fantasy Novel

• The Dread Wyrm, Miles Cameron (Gollancz)
• Son of the Black Sword, Larry Correia (Baen)
• Gotrek & Felix: Slayer, David Guymer (Black Library)
• Ruin, John Gwynne (Pan Macmillan)
• The Liar’s Key, Mark Lawrence (Harper Voyager)

The Morningstar Award for Best Fantasy Newcomer

• Battlemage, Stephen Aryan (Orbit)
• The Traitor Baru Cormorant, Seth Dickinson (Pan Macmillan)
• The Fire Sermon, Francesca Haig (Harper Voyager)
• Starborn, Lucy Hounsom (Pan Macmillan)
• The Vagrant, Peter Newman (Harper Voyager)
• An Ember in the Ashes, Sabaa Tahir (Harper Voyager)

The Ravenheart Award for Best Fantasy Cover Art

• Kerem Beyit for the cover of The Dread Wyrm by Miles Cameron (Gollancz)
• Jason Chan for the cover of The Liar’s Key by Mark Lawrence (Harper Voyager)
• Larry Elmore & Carol Russo Design for the cover of Son of the Black Sword by Larry Correia (Baen)
• Raymond Swanland for the cover of Archaon: Lord of Chaos by Rob Sanders (Black Library)
• Paul Young for the cover of Ruin by John Gwynne (Pan Macmillan)

The winners will be announced September 24, 2016 at Fantasycon, held at the Grand Hotel and the Royal in Scarborough UK.  Voting closes at midnight GMT on Friday, August 19.

As usual, most of the Legend nominees, the exception being Son of the Black Sword, are in series I’ve either not read or am not current on.  I’ve only heard of two of the Morningstar Nominees, The Traitor Baru Cormorant, which I know from reviews will not be my flagon of ale, and The Vagrant, which looks interesting.  I’ll try to read at least one or two of the nominees, but the way the summer is going, I may be sitting out this year’s awards simply because I won’t have time to read enough nominees to cast an informed ballot.