Locus Online reports that the finalists for the 2007 Crawford Award, given to a fantasy writer whose first book was published in the previous year, have been announced by the International Association for the Fantastic in the Arts. The winner will be announced during the IAFA's annual Conference, held March 14-18 in Fort Lauderdale, Florida.

The finalists are:

• A Shadow in Summer, Daniel Abraham
• Skinny Dipping in the Lake of the Dead, Alan DeNiro
• The Stolen Child, Keith Donohue
• In the Forest of Forgetting, Theodora Goss
• The Lies of Locke Lamora, Scott Lynch
• Temeraire, Naomi Novik
• Map of Dreams, M. Rickert