Via the Digital Reader:
http://the-digital-reader.com/2016/0...ers-announced/
Quote:
Dragon Con is a 30-year-old SF convention held in Atlanta every year and attended by about fifteen to twenty times as many warm bodies as WorldCon, and it gave away its first awards on Sunday.
The inaugural Dragon Awards includes categories which cover SF and fantasy (traditionally the domain of the Hugo Awards), comics books, Horror (Bram Stoker Awards), video games, and tv/movie works.
I'm still waiting to hear back from Dragon Con on the number of voters and participants, so here's a rundown on the basic facts.
Rather than focus on the length of a work and crown a single title the "best" in categories defined by word counts, the Dragon Awards went for a more granular approach in its first year and instead awarded prizes for SF, alternate history, fantasy, military SF&F, apocalyptic, horror, YA, and comic book.
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Much more at the source, including nominees and winners.
Three takes on the awards:
https://madgeniusclub.com/2016/09/05...on-the-carpet/
https://maxviking.wordpress.com/2016...dragon-awards/
http://womenwriteaboutcomics.com/201...-puppy-awards/
As usual, I don't particularly care who wins awards. But the nomination list looks pretty solid and legit to me. Weber, Freer, Correia, Novik, Butcher, Sir Terry Pratchet (spoiler: he won his category), plus HBO, BETHESDA SOFTWORKS... a couple Indies, and even an Amazon Publishing title. Sounds pretty inclusive to me.
(Check the comments on the Freer column.)