Seanan McGuire (seanan_mcguire) wrote,
Seanan McGuire
seanan_mcguire
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  • Music: Bauhaus, "Bella Lugosi's Dead."

Tiara. In AUSTRALIA. Or: The 2010 Campbell Ballot is live!

I am delighted (and still sort of staggered and awed) to announce that I have been nominated for the 2010 John W. Campbell Award for Best New Writer. You can view the full ballot for this year's awards by following this link to the Aussiecon 4 website.

I. Uh.

Oh my sweet Great Pumpkin and pie, you guys, I made the ballot.

I literally started screaming when I got the email—like, high-pitched, sonic screaming—followed by crying hysterically for a good half an hour. Because I made the ballot. I'm an urban fantasist! Urban fantasists don't make the Campbell ballot! (I checked the last several years, because I am insane like that.) Urban fantasists don't get to buy pretty dresses and go to Australia and maybe win a tiara!

But this one does.

Wow.

I've updated my website to reflect recent changes, I've done the Internet equivalent of making the house look nice for all the new guests that are likely to come over and check me out, and I've managed, mostly, to stop crying. I'm on the 2010 Campbell ballot. I just...

There are no words. Just wow.
Tags: australia makes you die, awards and stuff, good things, so the marilyn, writing
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cathschaffstump

April 5 2010, 14:43:00 UTC 7 years ago

A really good reason to go to Australia, then. :)

Will you be able to make a vacation out of it?

Catherine

seanan_mcguire

April 5 2010, 18:23:37 UTC 7 years ago

A short one, but yes. :)

autographedcat

April 5 2010, 14:45:49 UTC 7 years ago

You deserve it, love. And I am so very, very proud of everything that you're doing.

You rock like a granite weeble.

tigertoy

April 5 2010, 16:46:19 UTC 7 years ago

You rock like a granite weeble.

Literally LOL. So silly. And so true.

seanan_mcguire

7 years ago

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seanan_mcguire

April 5 2010, 18:24:30 UTC 7 years ago

Woo!

bobmage

April 5 2010, 15:02:27 UTC 7 years ago

A professional coup, and an excuse to go to the Land of Poison and Fire! Awesome!

seanan_mcguire

April 5 2010, 18:24:59 UTC 7 years ago

Life is very good right now.

oreouk

April 5 2010, 15:04:36 UTC 7 years ago

Woot! Congratualtions!!

seanan_mcguire

April 5 2010, 18:25:13 UTC 7 years ago

Thank you!

menoreiel

April 5 2010, 15:06:16 UTC 7 years ago

Congratulations!

seanan_mcguire

April 5 2010, 18:25:43 UTC 7 years ago

Thank you!

deire

April 5 2010, 15:09:24 UTC 7 years ago

YAY!

seanan_mcguire

April 5 2010, 18:26:21 UTC 7 years ago

Glee.

solarbird

April 5 2010, 15:11:21 UTC 7 years ago

Anna and I saw that come in at Norwescon. Congratulations! ^_^

seanan_mcguire

April 5 2010, 18:27:19 UTC 7 years ago

Thank you!

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seanan_mcguire

April 5 2010, 18:27:44 UTC 7 years ago

I'm really, really happy, and just hope that the Campbell voters will agree!

eevieivy

April 5 2010, 15:16:58 UTC 7 years ago

Yay and congrats! :)

seanan_mcguire

April 5 2010, 18:28:02 UTC 7 years ago

I have the glee. :)

Congratulations!!!

lisa_marli

April 5 2010, 15:24:20 UTC 7 years ago

It's because you are a good writer. Good writers deserve recognition.
Keep Up the Fantastic Work!

Re: Congratulations!!!

seanan_mcguire

April 5 2010, 18:36:58 UTC 7 years ago

I'll do my best!

tereshkova2001

April 5 2010, 15:27:48 UTC 7 years ago

CONGRATULATIONS11111!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!

seanan_mcguire

April 5 2010, 18:38:32 UTC 7 years ago

Thank you!

melissajm

April 5 2010, 15:45:19 UTC 7 years ago

Congratulations!

seanan_mcguire

April 5 2010, 18:38:50 UTC 7 years ago

Thank you.

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seanan_mcguire

April 5 2010, 18:39:24 UTC 7 years ago

That's cool. :) It actually makes me really twitchy when people start congratulating me for things I haven't announced yet.

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seanan_mcguire

April 5 2010, 18:40:04 UTC 7 years ago

Thank you!

jacylrin

April 5 2010, 15:54:19 UTC 7 years ago

*squeeee!!!*

Congrats!

seanan_mcguire

April 5 2010, 18:45:30 UTC 7 years ago

Thank you.

stakebait

April 5 2010, 15:57:47 UTC 7 years ago

Whoo hoo!

seanan_mcguire

April 5 2010, 18:45:55 UTC 7 years ago

I am OVER THE GODDAMN MOON.

Now I just need to win.

vixyish

April 5 2010, 15:59:54 UTC 7 years ago

Tiara! TIARA TIARA TIARA!

seanan_mcguire

April 5 2010, 18:50:27 UTC 7 years ago

OMG TIARA YES TIARA!

valdary

April 5 2010, 16:01:47 UTC 7 years ago

Hope you get the koala tiara, so exciting for you!

seanan_mcguire

April 5 2010, 18:51:11 UTC 7 years ago

I would like to get a koala and the tiara.

tollers

7 years ago

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pyre006

April 5 2010, 16:02:24 UTC 7 years ago

CONGRATULATIONS like woah ^-^

seanan_mcguire

April 5 2010, 18:52:44 UTC 7 years ago

Thank you!

bercilakslady

April 5 2010, 16:04:33 UTC 7 years ago

Woo! I can't vote, but I'm sending good vibes anyhow. :)

seanan_mcguire

April 5 2010, 18:53:42 UTC 7 years ago

Thank you! Every little bit helps.

qnofhrt

April 5 2010, 16:07:20 UTC 7 years ago

Go Seanan!! Congratulations!

seanan_mcguire

April 5 2010, 18:54:00 UTC 7 years ago

Thank you!

allisona

April 5 2010, 16:17:25 UTC 7 years ago

Yay! That's so utterly amazing :).

seanan_mcguire

April 5 2010, 18:55:44 UTC 7 years ago

I'm sort of still in shock. It's so incredible.

Squee!

ladyqkat

April 5 2010, 16:20:45 UTC 7 years ago

That deserves this bit of adorableness zombification:

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docpockets

April 5 2010, 16:35:26 UTC 7 years ago

Congratulations on the nomination. My guess is that it's going to be a tight race between you and Gail, but I don't know yet how the results will skew because the Con is in Australia.

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seanan_mcguire

7 years ago

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lysystratae

7 years ago

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seanan_mcguire

7 years ago

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dornbeast

April 5 2010, 16:34:24 UTC 7 years ago

Urban fantasists don't get to buy pretty dresses and go to Australia and maybe win a tiara!

But this one does.


Clearly, this says something about all those other authors of urban fantasy. Bunch of underachievers, all of them. :)

Congratulations, and may your acceptance speech be more coherent than your response to being on the ballot.

seanan_mcguire

April 5 2010, 18:58:24 UTC 7 years ago

I don't know. Crying uncontrollably at a podium is at least funny...
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