The season of awards.: seanan

The season of awards.

I got up this morning and checked the AussieCon website almost before I realized what I was doing. I think I dreamt there had been a mistake or something. But there was no mistake, and I'm still on the ballot for the 2010 Campbell Awards. I am no less staggered by this than I was on the day I was asked to accept the nomination. (The comic strip about looking dumbfounded is coming. I was too staggered to ink. Seriously.)

catvalente's story of sex and the city (also sex with the city) is up for the 2010 Hugo Award for Best Novel, and her reaction post made me giggle and nod an awful lot, because she's as staggered as I am. Which I guess just proves that the shiny never wears off of the world if you keep applying coats of silver polish. We're going to wear pretty dresses and go to the awards banquet together, because that's just how we roll around here.

(And I am very proud of her. Palimpsest was the little novel that could, even after everyone said it couldn't. The fact that it's on the ballot is amazing, and testifies to all things finding their place, given space enough to shine.)

In further awards-and-Australia news, Grants Pass has won the Australian Shadows Award for best anthology. This award is granted by the Australian Horror Writers Association, and is given to honor the best new Australian horror (Grants Pass was co-edited by an American and an Australian). Jennifer is now an award-winning editor! Hooray! (Also, the judge's report called out "Animal Husbandry" as a stand-out story. I am honored.)

My friends are amazing, and they do amazing things.

What a wonderful world.

talkstowolves

April 6 2010, 15:22:45 UTC 7 years ago

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I'm incredibly excited for you all! Awards season is heady, even for the peripherally involved.

seanan_mcguire

April 6 2010, 16:21:27 UTC 7 years ago

It's just amazing. So amazing.

catvalente

April 6 2010, 16:18:04 UTC 7 years ago

*hugs you tight* I wonder if we have publisher tables at the banquet like at WFA or if we can sit together.

April 6 2010, 16:21:58 UTC 7 years ago

As far as I know, I'm the only person attending from DAW. So if they have publisher tables, I am going to be the loneliest girl at the con...

April 6 2010, 16:25:08 UTC 7 years ago

Well, and Bantam doesn't exist anymore...

April 8 2010, 14:15:47 UTC 7 years ago

Also gonna be a bit of a bug, yeah. My abandoned table can unite with your imaginary one! It'll be like a ghost ship/green wind romance.

markbernstein

April 6 2010, 17:27:29 UTC 7 years ago

Non sequitur time!

I don't know if you follow Something Positive, but I thought of you when I saw this.

April 8 2010, 14:16:04 UTC 7 years ago

Hee!

la_marquise_de_

April 6 2010, 18:11:22 UTC 7 years ago

Many congratulations.

April 8 2010, 14:16:24 UTC 7 years ago

I'm excited.

And terrified.

And excited.

And terrified.

And I really do want the tiara.

April 8 2010, 15:54:31 UTC 7 years ago

You will look cute in that tiara.
Mind you, if I had been eligible, I might have made you share it!

April 8 2010, 16:54:36 UTC 7 years ago

Quite fair!

docpockets

April 6 2010, 19:09:58 UTC 7 years ago

Even though we can't attend, I'm thinking of buying a Supporting Membership just so I can vote for you (and Locus). Of course, the Hugo eBook package may also have figured into my thinking.

April 8 2010, 15:28:17 UTC 7 years ago

SQUEE!

I will applaud if you do. Vigorously.

gorgeousgary

April 7 2010, 00:50:46 UTC 7 years ago

You could be dreaming, but there are a few hundred of us here who also saw the Hugo page. So unless we're all figments of your imagination... 8-)

Also happy about Palimpsest, which was among my nominations as well.