The Mythopoeic Fantasy Awards 2010 finalists

This just in--

Mythopoeic Fantasy Award for Adult Literature

• Barbara Campbell, Trickster’s Game trilogy consisting of Heartwood, Bloodstone, and Foxfire (DAW)
• Greer Gilman, Cloud & Ashes: Three Winter’s Tales (Small Beer Press)
• Robert Holdstock, Avilion (Gollancz)
• Catherynne M. Valente, Palimpsest (Spectra)
• Jo Walton, Lifelode (NESFA Press)

Mythopoeic Fantasy Award for Children’s Literature

• Kage Baker, The Hotel Under the Sand (Tachyon)
• Shannon Hale, Books of Bayern consisting of The Goose Girl, Enna Burning, River Secrets, and Forest Born (Bloomsbury)
• Grace Lin, Where the Mountain Meets the Moon (Little, Brown)
• Malinda Lo, Ash (Little, Brown)
• Lisa Mantchev, Eyes Like Stars (Feiwel & Friends)

For the full lists, here's the Mythopoeic Awards site.

And now I am trying to decide which of the books in the children's category I'd pick to be the winner (since I've read them all). I'm going to go with Ash, although I bet Shannon Hale wins! (and that would be fine with me too).

Viz the adult books--I read the first 50 or so pages of Cloud and Ashes, and it was not for me--very mannered and painstakingly Crafted, and I found it too confusing and stilted. And I haven't read any other the others.

(with this post I am pre-empting all the work I just put into my last post, a new releases list, so do please go visit that too so that I don't feel it was all a Waste. Thanks.)