Vancouver, BC – June 8, 2010. Ian Weir’s debut novel, Daniel O’Thunder, is certainly making waves. Today the book received its fourth literary prize nomination for the Canadian Authors Association’s Award for Fiction, sponsored by MOSAID Technologies Inc. The book was also nominated for the Commonwealth Writers’ Prize Best First Book Award, the Amazon.ca Annual First Novel Award, and the Ethel Wilson Fiction Prize.
The winner of the CAA Award for Fiction will be announced on June 26, 2010 at the Harbour Towers Hotel in Victoria, BC, during the CAA’s 2010 CanWrite Conference.
Douglas & McIntyre will issue a paperback edition of the book this fall.



Read a review of Daniel O’Thunder in The Guardian.

• Finalist for the 2010 Commonwealth Writer's Prize
  
  
• Finalist for the Amazon.ca First Novel Award
  
  
• Finalist for the Ethel Wilson Fiction Prize
  
  
• Inaugural selection of the Afterword Readon Society, the online book club of The National Post. Read more.
  
  
• D&M's podcast SPEAKEASY with John Burns' interview with Ian now available. Listen HERE
  
  
• Daniel O'Thunder makes Amazon.ca's Top 100 Books of 2009
  
  
• Ian signs contract for second novel.