Seanan McGuire (seanan_mcguire) wrote,
Seanan McGuire
seanan_mcguire
  • Mood: ecstatic
  • Music: Talis Kimberley, "Dead Susan."

Hugo nominations are live. When will you Rise?

I am...honored and delighted and a little stunned to announce that Feed, written under the name "Mira Grant," has been nominated for the 2011 Hugo Award for Best Novel. The award will be given this August, at Renovation, the World Science Fiction Convention to be held in Reno, Nevada.

Yeah.

I've been nominated for a Hugo.

And yeah, I cried.

This is such an honor. This is...this is one of those things I never expected, that I get to have for the rest of my life. "I was nominated for a Hugo Award." Winning would be awesome, but in a way, it's icing on an already delicious cake, because I was nominated. Out of everything published in 2010, enough people said "Feed was the best" that I made the ballot. Me, and four other people, out of all the books there were.

I am honored and stunned and delighted and terrified, and it's something I've dreamed of literally since I found out Ray Bradbury had a Hugo Award, so I must have been, like, eight. And now my name is on that ballot.

When will I Rise? I don't think I could Rise any higher than I am right now.

Thank you all so much.
Tags: awards and stuff, feed, good things, gratitude, mira grant, so the marilyn, zombies
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vincentursus

April 25 2011, 20:44:24 UTC 6 years ago

Now, the appropriate response at this point is to say "Congratulations!" and tell you that this is a well deserved honor.

But lots of people have said those things already. So instead, I shall observe that velociraptors are too small to use as riding animals, but deinonychus might work. They're pack hunters, so domesticating them isn't implausible. The problem is keeping them fed. I imagine it would be quite tricky to carry enough meat for them on an ongoing basis.

phoenixrave

April 26 2011, 01:02:43 UTC 6 years ago

Best comment EVER!

seanan_mcguire

April 26 2011, 02:00:29 UTC 6 years ago

...I love you.