[{"data":1,"prerenderedAt":11},["ShallowReactive",2],{"blog-post-the-kitschies-awards-2013":3},{"_type":4,"body":5,"bodyHtml":6,"excerpt":5,"featuredImage":5,"publishedAt":7,"slug":8,"tags":9,"title":10},"blogPost",null,"Hurrah, team \u003Ca href=\"http://www.thekitschies.com/\">Kitschies\u003C/a>! Last night's award ceremony was a blast, with Kraken's excellent rum, recognising 'the year's most progressive, intelligent and entertaining works that contain elements of the speculative or fantastic'. The outfits were tentacular:\\r\n\\r\n\u003Cimg src=\"https://images.jabberworks.co.uk/lj/kitschies_necklines_zpsaf9c1ab9-e856f79a6b.jpg\">\\r\n\\r\nAs were the awards:\\r\n\\r\n\u003Cimg src=\"https://images.jabberworks.co.uk/lj/kitschies_nick_harkaway_zps5e43a253-c8f7272191.jpg\">\\r\n\u003Ci>Nick Harkaway with his Red Tentacle: The Guardian asked permission to use and credited this photo in their \u003Ca href=\"http://m.guardian.co.uk/books/2013/feb/27/nick-harkaway-kitschies-red-tentacle-award\">article here\u003C/a>\u003C/i>\\r\n\\r\n\u003C!--more Click here for more photos under the cut!-->\\r\n\u003Ca href=\"http://www.franceshardinge.com/\">Frances Hardinge\u003C/a>, \u003Ca href=\"http://www.whodunnknit.com/\">Lauren O'Farrell\u003C/a>, \u003Ca href=\"http://www.lizdejager.co.uk/\">Liz de Jager\u003C/a> with Frances's tentacled companion:\\r\n\\r\n\u003Cimg src=\"https://images.jabberworks.co.uk/lj/kitschies_franceslaurenliz_zpsc54d719d-328962edc3.jpg\">\\r\n\\r\nA big congratulations to \u003Ca href=\"http://daveshelton.com/\">Dave Shelton\u003C/a>, who won the Inky Tentacle for the cover design of his book \u003Ci>A Boy, a Bear and a Boat\u003C/i>. (\u003Ca href=\"http://jabberworks.livejournal.com/453707.html\">You can read my review of it here and see photos from its launch party.\u003C/a>)\\r\n\\r\n\u003Cimg src=\"https://images.jabberworks.co.uk/lj/kitschies_dave_inkytentacle_zps4b202bb9-1f825f8007.jpg\">\\r\n\\r\nDave with \u003Ca href=\"http://www.davidficklingbooks.com/davidficklingbooks.asp?ean=9780385618960&ref=search\">David Fickling Books\u003C/a> team \u003Cb>Matilda Johnson\u003C/b> and editor \u003Ca href=\"https://twitter.com/K_L_Armstrong\">Kirsten Armstrong\u003C/a>:\\r\n\u003Cimg src=\"https://images.jabberworks.co.uk/lj/kitschies_dave_team1_zps890498d9-3a0bf62a96.jpg\">\\r\n\\r\nAnd well done, my fab studio mates \u003Ca href=\"http://www.garynorthfield.co.uk\">Gary Northfield\u003C/a> and \u003Cb>Lauren O'Farrell\u003C/b>, who joined \u003Ca href=\"https://twitter.com/Creature_Ed\">Ed Warren\u003C/a> on the Inky Tentacle \u003Ca href=\"http://www.thekitschies.com/judges.html\">judging panel\u003C/a>! \\r\n\\r\n\u003Cimg src=\"https://images.jabberworks.co.uk/lj/kitschies_lauren_ed_zps09e6ae09-2cf01a3aae.jpg\">\\r\n\\r\nGary Northfield, Ed Warren, Lauren O'Farrell... and \u003Ca href=\"https://twitter.com/Gergaroth\">Mark de Jager\u003C/a>.\\r\n\\r\n\u003Cimg src=\"https://images.jabberworks.co.uk/lj/kitschies_inkyjudges2_zpsf8a867dc-67bc13b0fa.jpg\">\\r\n\\r\nCheck out the \u003Ca href=\"http://worldsf.wordpress.com/\">World SF Blog\u003C/a>, which won the Black Tentacle for 'an outstanding contribution to the conversation surrounding genre literature'. Here's \u003Cb>Lavie Tidhar\u003C/b> making a meal of it:\\r\n\\r\n\u003Cimg src=\"https://images.jabberworks.co.uk/lj/kitschies_tentaclce_zps2be134a6-47681eea33.jpg\">\\r\n\\r\nPublisher \u003Cb>Jo Fletcher\u003C/b> accepted the Golden Tentacle (for debut books) on behalf of \u003Ca href=\"http://worldsf.wordpress.com/2013/02/25/karen-lords-redemption-in-indigo-review-and-giveaway/\">Karen Lord\u003C/a> for \u003Ci>Redemption in Indigo\u003C/i>: \\r\n\\r\n\u003Cimg src=\"https://images.jabberworks.co.uk/lj/kitschies_JoFletcher_zps57ea4bdc-a0d83e76dd.jpg\">\\r\n\\r\nHere's last year's Red Tentacle winner (novel category), \u003Ca href=\"http://www.patrickness.com/\">Patrick Ness\u003C/a>, awarding the prize to \u003Ca href=\"http://www.nickharkaway.com/\">Nick Harkaway\u003C/a> for \u003Ci>Angelmaker\u003C/i>. (Here's \u003Ca href=\"http://www.nickharkaway.com/2013/02/progressive-fiction-and-the-kitschies/\">Nick's blog post about it\u003C/a>.) \\r\n\\r\n\u003Cimg src=\"https://images.jabberworks.co.uk/lj/kitschies_patrick_ness_zpsbda78f24-f7e6b46878.jpg\">\\r\n\\r\nA big cheer for \u003Cb>Anne Perry\u003C/b> (\u003Ca href=\"https://twitter.com/thefingersofgod\">@thefingersofgod\u003C/a> on Twitter) and \u003Cb>Jared Shurin\u003C/b> (\u003Ca href=\"https://twitter.com/pornokitsch\">@pornokitsch\u003C/a>, and no,  it's not about porn, gentle readers) for all the work they put into making The Kitschies a great award and throwing awesome events and parties all year round! They're the best.\\r\n\\r\n\u003Ca href=\"http://jabberworks.livejournal.com/480558.html\">\u003Cimg src=\"https://images.jabberworks.co.uk/lj/kitschies_yearinpics1_zps6548a82d-86dc73562c.jpg\">\u003C/a>\\r\n\u003Ca href=\"http://jabberworks.livejournal.com/480558.html\">\u003Ci>Worlds of Tomorrow event photos by Candy Gourlay\u003C/i>\u003C/a>\\r\n\\r\nHere's a little sloth giving Anne a hug: \\r\n\\r\n\u003Cimg src=\"https://images.jabberworks.co.uk/lj/kitschies_anne_sloth_zps385e928b-274d15ed57.jpg\">\\r\n\\r\n\\r\nFind out more about the awards over on \u003Ca href=\"http://www.thekitschies.com/\">The Kitschies website\u003C/a>! You can \u003Ca href=\"http://jabberworks.livejournal.com/tag/kitschies\">click here and scroll down\u003C/a> to see earlier Kitschies events featured on my blog, and a few more photos \u003Ca href=\"http://www.facebook.com/media/set/?set=a.10152645760965287.969486.903715286&type=1\">on my Facebook album\u003C/a>.","2013-02-27T11:53:00.000Z","the-kitschies-awards-2013",[],"the kitschies awards 2013",1776628724809]