HWA LIFETIME ACHIEVEMENT AWARD

[ShadoeWolfe]

Brian is going to receive the HWA Lifetime Achievement Award at the upcoming World Horror Convention in Brighton, UK on March 27, 2010.

From Horror Writers Association website release:

The Horror Writers Association has chosen two long-time icons of the genre to receive the prestigious Lifetime Achievement Award this year. The award, given for an author’s overall body of work, will go to Brian Lumley and to William F. Nolan.

Brian Lumley's first short story collection, The Caller of the Black, was published by Arkham House in 1971. Lumley went on to garner followers around the world for his series of Necroscope novels, which began in 1986. He has published dozens of short stories, including many in the Cthulhu Mythos begun by H. P. Lovecraft, and he is also the author of the popular "Titus Crow" and "Psychomech" stories. His books have been published in both mass market and small press limited editions, and his early titles command high prices in the collector's market. He is the subject of 2002's The Brian Lumley Companion (co-written with Stanley Wiater), and his most recent release is Harry and the Pirates: And Other Tales from the Lost Years (Tor, 2009). Lumley is a former President of the Horror Writers Association.

The Lifetime Achievement Award is the most prestigious of the Bram Stoker Awards, given by the HWA in acknowledgment of superior achievement not just in a single work but over an entire career. Past Lifetime Achievement Award winners include such noted authors as Stephen King, Anne Rice, Joyce Carol Oates, Ray Bradbury, F. Paul Wilson, Chelsea Quinn Yarbro, and Peter Straub. Winners must have exhibited a profound, positive impact on the fields of horror and dark fantasy, and be at least sixty years of age or have been published for a minimum of thirty-five years.

The LAAs will be presented on March 27, 2010 in conjunction with the World Horror Convention in Brighton, U.K. The convention will take place from March 25-28 at Brighton's historic Royal Albion Hotel. For more information on the World Horror Convention, please visit their website at www.whc2010.org.

The Horror Writers Association is a worldwide organization promoting dark literature and its creators. Started in 1985, it has over 500 members who are writing professionally in fiction, nonfiction, videogames, films, comics, and other media.

[sdkdmd]

Congratulations to Brian. Well deserved.

[Canker]

Congrats!
I've been away for awhile but to come back and see this has put a big smile on my face. You truely deserve it!
If ever at a convention in the Boston Ma area again I will be there for sure to shake yoru hand in person.


Canker A.K.A. Brian

[Silver]

That's fantastic news, well done Brian thoroughly deserved. The only problem here though is that I'm even more gutted I can't go! Boo hoo hoo!!

[sideous]

Congratulations Brian

[DaveStrorm]

That is great news! Man I wish I could be there for that presentation.

Also congrats to William F. Nolan! Another great guy who deserves it.

[kenny]

A very proud moment in you life Brian, and long over due. Many congratulations to you and Silky.

[topol_sheap]

Brilliant news. Really awesome and well deserved.

[Ilya Sul]

Oh how well deserved, Master Lumley. Congratulations!

[ShadoeWolfe]

I mentioned this on the Convention thread, but you also need to get Banquet tickets if you are going to the Convention and want to see Brian receive his award. The banquet will be Saturday the 27th at the Brighton Pier. Tickets are limited so grab them now - you don't want to miss this if you are there!

[Dr. Freudenstein]

Congratulations are in order for a well deserved honour mr Lumley and on another not I did not know William F. Nolan wrote horror only know him as the writer of the Logan trilogy.

[Cathy]

Congratulations to my favorite author. You most definitely deserve this honor.

[PhilosophicalViking]

Congratulations Brian....a well deserved Award.