Friday, January 16, 2015

Urban Fantasy Awards 2015!



It’s Awards season! With the handing out of little statues to lots of very very practiced speeches now nigh, it is time for Fangs to prepare our own awards to the gems of the genre we know and love!

And unlike the real Oscars (#oscarssowhite), we actually value depiction and inclusion of marginalised people in the genre. As we watch a wave of uber-privileged cis, straight, white, able bodied folks pat each other on the back for being so incredibly awesome


Over the next few weeks leading up to the Oscars we will be calling on you, our Fangèd Followers to give us your nominations, cast your votes, battle it out until one emerges victorious and is given the coveted prize of the GOLDEN FANGS!


Because we’re us, and we’re mean Negative Nancies equally committed to excoriating the awful every bit as much as we’re joyfully yapping after our favourites, we also have categories for those that will shamed by and award of the DREAD FANPOODLE!


This week, we’re looking for Nominations! Put your contenders in the ring, polish up your vampires, and help us find the sparkling cream of the genre. To ensure as many people can pass on their ideas as possible, we’re be listening to suggestions emailed to us (fangsforthefantasy@gmail.com), sent to us through Tumblr, Goodreads, Librarything, Booklikes,Twitter, Facebook, the comments section and carrier pigeon.


Send us your nominations





Categories for Golden Fangs!


Best New Series of the Year


Best Indie Book


Most Original Monster


Most Original concept


Best Vampire


Best wereanimal


Best Fae


Best Magic-user


Funniest Series


Most Inclusive Series


Best Protagonist


Best book/series with a Female Protagonist


Best book/series with POC Protagonist


Best Book/series with LGBTQ protagonist


Best Book/Series with Disabled protagonist


Best non-western setting


Best Dystopian Series


Best Steampunk


Best Series that ended


Lifetime Achievement Award
What series, TV show or even writer, producer et al deserves a special prize for long standing awesomeness in this genre?





Categories for Dread Fanpoodles!



Most Blatant Token!


Most Awful Stereotype

Most Convoluted Romance


Most Ridiculous Erasure


Spunkiest Agent


Most Unintentionally Hilarious sex scene


Must Pungently Violet of Purple Prose


Series That Most Reduces Your Faith In the Human Race
This is a series that isn’t just bad - because bad books are pretty easy. No, this is a book that is adored by a truly terrifying number of people while being so bad it actually makes you question whether humanity deserves to continue to exist when this is so enthusiastically hailed.