HOUSE OF SKIN a Finalist for the Darrell Award!!!

Posted on by Jonathan Janz

Okay, so I’ve been sitting on a piece of news for a good long while now, and I thought I’d be able to share it yesterday…but I can’t yet. Painful for me, though probably merely annoying for you. No one likes a tease.

From the Mind of Charlaine Harris
From the Mind of Charlaine Harris

But this morning I received a piece of good news that I wasn’t expecting. In fact, I’d all but forgotten about it because I didn’t think my novel had a chance. However…

The chairman of the Darrell Awards—presented every at the MidSouthCon in Memphis, Tennessee—emailed me to inform  me that my sophomore novel House of Skin has been selected by the jury as one of ten finalists for the Darrell Award, which is presented to the best Midsouth Science Fiction, Fantasy, and/or Horror Fiction of the Year. To be eligible for the award, the fictional work must have some connection to the Midsouth area, which includes Memphis (and the protagonist of my novel hails from Memphis!).

This Year's Hall of Fame Inductee
This Year’s Hall of Fame Inductee

The Hall of Fame Award at the MidSouthCon will be presented to none other than Justin Cronin (The Passage, The Twelve). Past winners of the Darrell Award include Charlaine Harris (creator of the True Blood books), Sherrilyn Kenyon, Nancy A. Collins, and last year, John Hornor Jacobs (for Southern Gods).

So…I’m excited! I always roll my eyes when folks at the Oscars say they’re just happy to be nominated. Well, now I can say—with not the slightest roll of my eyes—that I’m ecstatic to be nominated. Thank you, Darrell Awards Jury, for selecting House of Skin as a finalist. I’m truly honored!

7 thoughts on “HOUSE OF SKIN a Finalist for the Darrell Award!!!”

    1. THANK you! I really appreciate that.

      And you can bet this tease will culminate in something. I’m just waiting for Amazon to do something that will ensure that…well, let’s just say that the news should be announced by the end of the weekend. 🙂

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Jonathan Janz grew up between a dark forest and a graveyard, and in a way, that explains everything. Brian Keene named his debut novel The Sorrows “the best horror novel of 2012”. The Library Journal deemed his follow-up, House of Skin, “reminiscent of Shirley Jackson’s The Haunting of Hill House and Peter Straub’s Ghost Story.” Samhain Horror will also publish his third novel, The Darkest Lullaby, in April. Savage Species will be his fourth full-length work. Look for his fifth novel, a vampire western called Dust Devils, in early 2014. He has also written three novellas (The Clearing of Travis Coble, Old Order, and Witching Hour Theatre) and several short stories. His primary interests are his wonderful wife and his three amazing children, and though he realizes that every author’s wife and children are wonderful and amazing, in this case the cliché happens to be true. You can learn more about Jonathan at www.jonathanjanz.com. You can also find him on Facebook, via @jonathanjanz on Twitter, or on his Goodreads and Amazon author pages.