The first nominations are in for the Urban Fantasy Awards! These are the contenders for the GOLDEN FANGS awards - and the the DREAD FANPOODLE condemnation
You still have two weeks, until Friday 13th, to nominate potential candidates! After which, voting will begin
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.
Categories for Golden Fangs!
Best New Series of the Year
Penny Dreadful
Best Indie Book
Carmine Rojas: Dog Fight by Che Gilson
The Golem and the Djinni by Helen Wecker
Magnificent Devices by Shelley Adina
Magnificent Devices by Shelley Adina
Most Original Monster
Mummy: the Curse from Onyx Path Publishing
Most Original concept
13 by Kelley Armstrong
Best Vampire
Penny Dreadful
Elijah from Originals
Best wereanimal
Carmine Rojas: Dog Fight by Che Gilson
Kitty Norville Series by Carrie Vaughn
Best Fae
October Daye Series by Seanan McGuire
Best Magic-user
Funniest Series
Orphan Black
Fairy Tale Crimes by Jasper Fforde
Rivers of London by Ben Aaronovitch
Most Inclusive Series
Stranger by Sherwood Smith and Rachel Manija Brown
The Three Musketeers
Libriomancer Series by Jim C Hines
The Astounding Antagonists by Rafael Chandler
Best Protagonist
Kara Gillian from the Kara Gillian Series by Diana Rowland
Angel from White Trash Zombie Series by Diana Rowland
Best book/series with a Female Protagonist
Carmine Rojas: Dog Fight by Che Gilson
Kara Gillian Series by Diana Rowlands
Best book/series with POC Protagonist
The Ghost Bride by Yangsze Choo
Habitat Series by Kenya Wright
Best Book/series with LGBTQ protagonist
Orphan Black (This has been suggested but we’re not convinced the other clones are protagonists beyond Sarah)
The Bone Palace by Amanda Downum
Best Book/Series with Disabled protagonist
Orphan Black (This has been suggested but we’re not convinced the other clones are protagonists beyond Sarah)
Best non-western setting
The Ghost Bride by Yangsze Choo
The Kraken King by Meljean Brook
Best Dystopian Series
Stranger by Sherwood Smith and Rachel Manija Brown
The Hunger Games by Suzanne Collins
Best Steampunk
Magnificent Devices by Shelley Adina
Best Series that ended
Karou Series by Laini Taylor
Hollows Series by Kim Harrison
Otherworld Series by Kelley Armstrong
Urban Shaman Series by CE Murphy
Lifetime Achievement Award
Tatiana Maslany
Doctor Who -Verity Lambert
Stephanie Meyer
JK Rowling
Categories for Dread Fanpoodles!
Most Blatant Token!
Sembene from Penny Dreadful
Under the Dome for Linda/Rebecca
Most Awful Stereotype
Orphan Black's Felix,
Sleepy Hollow's Katrina
Every bisexual in the Anita Blake Series
Most Convoluted Romance
Junior and Melanie on Under the Dome.
Most Ridiculous Erasure
DaVinci's Demons
The Dresden Files by Jim Butcher
Chicagoland Vampires by Chloe Neill
Carolyn on Under the Dome (this has been suggested but we think this is more tokenism than erasure)
Spunkiest Agent
Sophie from the Underworld Detective Agency Series
Rick Grimes from The Walking Dead
Clary from The Mortal Instruments
Most Unintentionally Hilarious sex scene
Must Pungently Violet of Purple Prose
Fade by A. K Morgan
Prince Lestat by Anne Rice
Blackwood Farm by Anne Rice
The Last Werewolf by Glen Duncan
Series That Most Reduces Your Faith In the Human Race
Fever series by Karen Marie Moning.
Outlander Series by Diana Gabaldon
