Awards

A full list of the winners is over at Tor.com, and some of my reactions are over at Whatever, but really — I’m OK with this. I honestly never expected my little short story to do as well as it has. I mean, really, nominated for the Hugo and the Nebula? Being nominated isn’t just an honor, it’s unbelievably cool. So congrats to all my fellow writers who were up this year, nominee and winner alike. And after all, there’s always next year. When a certain debut fantasy novel will be eligible… ::hums::

Didn’t win. (The NYC Simulcast was fun, though.) But I’m honestly not put out about that, because — as I’d been telling people for the past few days — I know and like something like 5 of the 7 nominees in the short story category personally, and I thought most of the stories up for award were phenomenal (haven’t read two of them yet, though), so I don’t mind losing in this situation. Some great writers did win, like Kij Johnson (my category) and Paolo Bacigalupi and Eugie Foster, and I just can’t feel bad about that. Besides… next year,

So, there’s this little award in the science fiction/fantasy realm called the Nebula. It’s big stuff. And see, there’s this author named N. K. Jemisin, who’s up for one of these nice awards for a short story that she wrote. And, well, tomorrow night she’ll find out if she won it. ::ulp:: Cross your fingers for me, folks. Gonna be a bit of a basket case for the next day or so. Granted, either way I’ll be okay. I never expected to be on the Neb ballot this early in my career; if I don’t win, there will be other