On Award Pimpage
Jeff VanderMeer mentioned this on Facebook and it got me thinking about it. This is the season when speculative fiction writers (and other genres as well, I believe) start thinking about awards....
View ArticleThe Million Writers Award – 2012
The Million Writers Award, which is a cool award for online fiction created by Jason Sanford, is open for nominations until April 9. If you’ve got a favorite story that appeared online this year —...
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The Inevitable Awards Post
Tiny things floated through the air all around him. He stretched out his palm and kept it motionless long enough that one drifted to be trapped in his palm. A seed, a brown seed. Attached to one end a...
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On Awards: To Be Pushy Or Not To Be Pushy
Sometimes putting something up for award consideration feels uncomfortable, but if you're not going to toot your own horn, who is?Amal El-Mohtar has a great blog post up right now about writers and...
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End of the Year Reading Recommendations
Now available on Smashwords, "All the Pretty Little Mermaids," which originally appeared in Asimov's. You set the price! If you enjoy it, please leave a review.I spent a good chunk of my summer reading...
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The Spontaneous Knotting of an Agitated Awards Process
This is a baby two-toed sloth. I figured it would be more appealing than an award logo.Hugo nominations have opened and with that, an array of canvassing and promotion techniques have begun to be...
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To Eligibility Post or Not to Eligibility Post?
In my position as SFWA President, sometimes I have to confer with fictional characters.Let us begin by acknowledging that this is a rancorous period, full of clashing agendas, bewildered onlookers, and...
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Nebula Conference 2016, Chicago
With our wonderful toastmaster, John Hodgman.What was it like? Like getting to co-host at one of the most awesome weekend-long parties ever, but one with all sorts of interesting conversations full of...
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Cat Rambo Award Eligibility for 2019
It’s that time of year again when I urge my students and mentees not to be shy about spreading word of the great stuff they’ve done over the course of the year. I’ve blogged before about how important...
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