{"id":14917,"date":"2011-06-02T15:10:36","date_gmt":"2011-06-02T14:10:36","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.scifinow.co.uk\/?p=14917"},"modified":"2011-06-02T15:11:05","modified_gmt":"2011-06-02T14:11:05","slug":"terry-pratchett-salutes-fresh-talent-with-his-new-award","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.scifinow.co.uk\/news\/terry-pratchett-salutes-fresh-talent-with-his-new-award\/","title":{"rendered":"Terry Pratchett salutes fresh talent with his new award"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><a rel=\"attachment wp-att-14918\" href=\"http:\/\/www.scifinow.co.uk\/news\/terry-pratchett-salutes-fresh-talent-with-his-new-award\/attachment\/pratchett-prize-01\/\"><img decoding=\"async\" loading=\"lazy\" class=\"alignleft size-medium wp-image-14918\" style=\"margin: 3px;\" title=\"Pratchett Prize 01\" src=\"http:\/\/www.scifinow.co.uk\/wp-content\/uploads\/2011\/06\/Pratchett-Prize-01-300x206.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"300\" height=\"206\" srcset=\"https:\/\/www.scifinow.co.uk\/wp-content\/uploads\/2011\/06\/Pratchett-Prize-01-300x206.jpg 300w, https:\/\/www.scifinow.co.uk\/wp-content\/uploads\/2011\/06\/Pratchett-Prize-01-768x528.jpg 768w, https:\/\/www.scifinow.co.uk\/wp-content\/uploads\/2011\/06\/Pratchett-Prize-01-616x424.jpg 616w, https:\/\/www.scifinow.co.uk\/wp-content\/uploads\/2011\/06\/Pratchett-Prize-01.jpg 1080w\" sizes=\"(max-width: 300px) 100vw, 300px\" \/><\/a>Longrunning comedic fantasy author <a href=\"http:\/\/www.scifinow.co.uk\/blog\/happy-birthday-to-sir-terry-pratchett\/\">Terry Pratchett<\/a> has chosen two new authors as the recipients\u00a0of his \u00a320,000\u00a0<a href=\"http:\/\/www.terrypratchett.co.uk\/news%5Ctermsandconditions.html\">Anywhere But Here, Anywhen But Now<\/a> prize for unpublished novels.<\/p>\n<p>Michael Logan and David Logan (no relation) were picked from a shortlist of six, out of over 500 submissions, to be joint winners &#8211; splitting the prize and both getting a book deal with Discworld publisher Transworld.<\/p>\n<p>&#8220;It was a long deliberation and although to some it might seem a cop-out to split a prize, we decided that since the existence of the prize was to find new talent then this was the happiest decision to make&#8221;, said Pratchett, who judged the prize with Tony Robinson and experts from Transworld and Waterstone&#8217;s. &#8220;[David Logan&#8217;s] <em>Half Sick Of Shadows<\/em> and [Michael Logan&#8217;s] <em>Apocalypse Cow<\/em> both stood out in their different ways and I wish their creators the best of luck in their writing careers.&#8221;<\/p>\n<p><em>Half Sick Of Shadows<\/em> is &#8220;a darkly atmospheric, richly written coming-of-age novel in the spirit of Iain Banks&#8217;s <em>The Wasp Factory<\/em>&#8220;, said Transworld, while <em>Apocalypse Cow<\/em> is the story of a group of social misfits thrown together after the government accidentally unleashes an experimental bioweapon, &#8220;with peculiar repercussions for Britain&#8217;s farm animals&#8221;.<\/p>\n<p>&#8220;Ever since I wrote my first short story at the age of eight, it has been my dream to become an author \u2013 although the idea for a novel about sex-crazed zombie cows did come a little later&#8221;, said Michael Logan, who lives in Kenya but was born in Scotland. &#8220;The full impact of attaining a lifelong goal has yet to fully sink in. I&#8217;m sure it will hit me on the way home, when I will bemuse all around me by performing a victorious knee-slide across the concourse at Gatwick.&#8221;<\/p>\n<p>David Logan said he felt &#8220;very lucky&#8221; to win the prize, adding, &#8220;I am disappointed for the runners-up. The difference between winning and losing is a hair&#8217;s breadth.&#8221;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>The Discworld word wizard celebrates new writers<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":36,"featured_media":14918,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"MSN_Categories":"Uncategorized","MSN_Publish_Option":false,"MSN_Is_Local_News":false,"MSN_Is_AIAC_Included":"Empty","MSN_Location":"[]","MSN_Add_Feature_Img_On_Top_Of_Post":false,"MSN_Has_Custom_Author":false,"MSN_Custom_Author":"","MSN_Has_Custom_Canonical_Url":false,"MSN_Custom_Canonical_Url":""},"categories":[1624,140,3],"tags":[1878],"acf":[],"jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"jetpack_featured_media_url":"https:\/\/www.scifinow.co.uk\/wp-content\/uploads\/2011\/06\/Pratchett-Prize-01.jpg","_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.scifinow.co.uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/14917"}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.scifinow.co.uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.scifinow.co.uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.scifinow.co.uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/36"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.scifinow.co.uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=14917"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.scifinow.co.uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/14917\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.scifinow.co.uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/14918"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.scifinow.co.uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=14917"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.scifinow.co.uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=14917"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.scifinow.co.uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=14917"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}