Trudi Canavan

The Magician’s Apprentice wins Aurealis Award!

Darren Nash — Sun, 24 Jan 2010 16:11:41 +0000

Fantastic news just in: The Magician’s Apprentice (AUS / UK / US) has won the 2010 Aurealis Award for Best Fantasy Novel!

Many congratulations to Trudi – and, indeed, to all of the shortlisted authors in what was a very strong field.

Click on the image above to read an extract.

Award News

Darren Nash — Wed, 06 Jan 2010 19:39:52 +0000

Trudi Canavan’s first book for Orbit worldwide, The Magician’s Apprentice, has been shortlisted for the Aurealis Award for Best Fantasy Novel! Already a Sunday Times bestselling hardback in the UK, The Magician’s Apprentice, prequel to the bestselling Black Magician Trilogy, could soon be winning Trudi her second Aurealis.

The Award winners will be announced at the Aurealis Awards ceremony at the Judith Wright Centre for Contemporary Arts in Brisbane on Saturday 23 January 2010.

Live radio interview Thursday 12 March

Nicola Pitt — Mon, 02 Mar 2009 03:48:23 +0000

Trudi Canavan will be interviewed live on Radio 3CR, Melbourne’s community radio station, on Thursday 12 March at 11:30am. She’ll be talking to Jan Goldsmith, for her show ‘Published or Not’ (frequency 855AM).

www.3cr.org.au/publishedornot

Trudi Canavan book signings in Canberra and Sydney

Nicola Pitt — Thu, 26 Feb 2009 14:53:42 +0000

Next week Trudi Canavan is visiting both Canberra and Sydney for book signings, so be sure you don’t miss out on meeting Australia’s highest selling speculative fiction author!

CANBERRA
Tuesday 3 March
5.00 – 6.00 p.m.
Gaslight Books
Unit 10, 83 Wollongong Street
Fyshwick ACT 2609

SYDNEY

Thursday 5 March
5.30 p.m.
Gaslight Books
143 York Street
Sydney NSW 2000

Please contact the bookstores for more information. And don’t forget to double-check with them before you travel, in case of last-minute alterations.

New Trudi Canavan website launches!

Site Admin — Tue, 20 Jan 2009 10:18:13 +0000

The brand new Trudi Canavan info website is now live, right here at www.trudicanavan.net!

This website has been set up and is maintained by Trudi’s global publisher Orbit and is intended to work as a complementary site to Trudi’s own homepage at www.trudicanavan.com as well as Trudi’s blog.

The site contains information on Trudi’s Orbit-published titles in UK & Europe, USA & Canada and Australia & New Zealand.

The site also contains Trudi’s author biography, and a page of useful resources for bloggers, website editors and media professionals, including an author photo, book covers and banners for Trudi’s new novel Magician’s Apprentice (February 2009).

If you have any questions about the site, or would like more information on The Magician’s Apprentice or Trudi’s other best-selling fantasy novels, please see the contact page of the site for details of who best to speak to in your part of the world.