I’m between events at Timegate — where I’ll be signing and speaking at panels here in Atlanta tomorrow and Sunday — but on my break I was pleased to hear that Star Wars: Knight Errant had been nominated for a Scribe Award by the International Association of Media Tie-In Writers.
Here’s the press release:
The International Association of Media Tie-In Writers (www.iamtw.org)
co-founders Lee Goldberg & Max Allan Collins are pleased to
announce the 2012 nominees for the Scribe Award, honoring excellence in
media tie-in writing, and the naming of author Kevin J. Anderson as this
year’s Grandmaster for his lifetime achievement in the field.
Anderson
is the author of more than one hundred novels, adding up to over 20
million books in print in thirty languages. His work includes the
STAR WARS “Jedi Academy” books, three internationally bestselling
X-FILES hardcovers, the Superman novels THE LAST DAYS OF KRYPTON and
ENEMIES & ALLIES, many novelizations (SKY CAPTAIN & THE WORLD OF
TOMORROW, LEAGUE OF EXTRAORDINARY GENTLEMEN, etc.) and, of course, the
ten globally bestselling DUNE novels he has co-authored with Brian
Herbert.
has won or been nominated for numerous prestigious honors, including
the Nebula Award, the Bram Stoker Award, and a New York Times Notable
Book prize…and now he can add IAMTW Grandmaster to the list of his
extraordinary achievements.
GRANDMASTER: KEVIN J. ANDERSON
The Knight Errant story continues in two weeks in Knight Errant Escape #1 at your local comics shop!