Hugo Reading Report
I’ve accepted that I will probably not make it through all the Hugo reading before it’s time to vote. Uff da — what would I do in a normal year, when there aren’t chunks of the ballot that I’ve ruled...
View ArticlePuppy Post-Mortem
So the Hugo Awards have been handed out, and the result is: fandom as a whole said in almost every instance that it would rather see No Award than a Puppy candidate win. I’ve heard the factoid bandied...
View ArticleIn other exciting news . . . .
Woke up this morning to find out that Sylvie Denis’ translation of A Natural History of Dragons is a finalist for the Prix Imaginales, an award given out at the Imaginales festival in Épinal, France....
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The Memoirs of Lady Trent are up for a Hugo!
Fortunately the Hugo people are kind; they don’t make you sit for very long on the news that you’ve been nominated. That’s right, ladies and gentlebeings: the Memoirs of Lady Trent have made the Hugo...
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Hugo FAQ
People have been asking various questions about the Memoirs and the Hugo Awards, so here’s a quick set of answers to share around (so I don’t have to type them over and over again — which, I just...
View ArticleWITHIN THE SANCTUARY OF WINGS wins an award!
I’ve known about this for a while, but today the news went live: Within the Sanctuary of Wings has won the 2017 RT Reviewers’ Choice Award for Best Fantasy Novel. Sadly, I won’t be able to attend the...
View ArticleAwards eligibility post
I don’t have a large amount of stuff to announce for this year in terms of awards-eligible material — no novels this calendar year, and my only short story was “At the Sign of the Crow and Quill” — but...
View ArticleThe “Best Series” Hugo
I’ve recently been reminded that the Hugo Awards are test-driving a new category, this one for “Best Series”: …a multi-volume science fiction or fantasy story, unified by elements such as plot,...
View ArticleWSFA Award finalist!
I got this news on Friday, but had to keep it under wraps until today: my Onyx Court short story “This Living Hand” is a finalist for the WSFA Small Press Award! This is particularly exciting for me...
View ArticleAbout yesterday’s news . . .
I would not have predicted that my first Nebula nomination would be for game writing. Mind you, it’s like 25% my nomination, if that. The work in question, the Ninefox Gambit RPG, is designed and...
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