David Gemmell Legend Awards (2011)

         The David Gemmell Award is an award giving each year to aspiring fantasy authors for their work. The award was created by friends of the prolific fantasy author David Gemmell for his superb fantasy novels(most notably Legend)


For the Morningstar Award for Best Newcomer, the winner was Darius Hinks for Warrior Priest (Black Library).






For the Ravenheart Award for Best Cover Artist, the winner was Olof Erla Einarsdottir for the cover of Power and Majesty by Tansy Rayner Roberts (Harper Collins Australia).








For the Legend Award for Best Novel, the winner was Brandon Sanderson for The Way of Kings (Gollancz/Tor US) who received the major Snaga Award.

Chapter 2 of the Alloy of Law Released

    Tor publishing has released the second excerpt of the highly anticipated sequel to Brandon Sanderson's Mistborn trilogy.

http://www.tor.com/features/series/the-alloy-of-law

 From the excerpts that Tor has provided, I am very much excited to read The Alloy of Law when it comes out. What are everyone's thoughts about the excerpt?