Awards Season Isn't Over Yet
There are a lot of SFF awards.
And I’m honored to have been nominated for one! It’s the Washington Science Fiction Society Small Press Award for Short Fiction, and this is my second nomination.
The ceremony is at Capclave in October, so if you want to see me dolled up, head there on Saturday night. I don’t expect to win (I have my pick as to who should win, but it’s an amazing lineup of stories:
“Baby Golem” by Barbara Krasnoff, Jewish Futures: Science Fiction from the World’s Oldest Diaspora, ed. by Michael A Burstein, Fantastic Books (2023); and
“Better Living Through Algorithms” by Naomi Kritzer, Clarkesworld Magazine, Issue 200 (May 2023) ed. by Neil Clarke
“A Bowl of Soup on the 87th Floor” by Kai Holmwood, Dreamforge Magazine, Issue 10 (March 2023) ed. by Scot Noel
“By the Works of Her Hands” by LaShawn M Wanak,Never Too Old to Save the World: A Midlife Calling Anthology, ed. by Alana Joli Abbott & Addie King, Outland Entertainment (February 2023)
“Interstate Mohinis” by M. L. Krishnan, Diaboloical Plots, Issue 100B (June 2023) ed. by Kel Coleman
“Machines” by Jennifer R. Povey, Game On!, ed. by Stephen Kotowych & Tony Pi, Zombies Need Brains (July 2023)
“Nothing But the Gods on Their Backs” by Alex T. Singer,Metaphorosis, (June 2023) ed. by B. Morris Allen
“Six Meals at Fanelli’s” by Annika Barranti Klein, Fusion Fragment, Issue 16 (April 2023) ed. by Cavan Terrill.
So, that’s the big news this week. And yes, that’s the same anthology that’s up for an Aurora.
(My pick is Naomi Kritzer, by the way, that story is just amazing).
In other news, got a fair bit of writing done and am one step closer to getting the rest of the series out. Client work has to come first right now, unfortunately, but I’m plodding along.
I finished and did a couple of edit passes on a short story that’s going to go in the back of book five to make up for it not having an excerpt…and to reward anyone who reads the entire thing. It’s cute and romance-y.
I’m also turning in the rewrite of a project I’m still not ready to talk about, but feel pretty good for having gotten done.
Oh, and working on a new cosplay that, if all goes well, will be coming to Philcon with me.