The 2012 Campbell Awards.: seanan

The 2012 Campbell Awards.

The John W. Campbell Award for Best New Writer is currently open for voting! This award uses the same nomination and voting mechanism as the Hugos, even though the Campbell Award is not a Hugo, and will be presented this year in Chicago, during the Hugo Awards Ceremony. Having been on the Campbell ballot in 2010, I can testify that it is a huge, huge honor to be nominated, and that it gets your name in front of a lot of eyes that might not otherwise have heard of you.

(I can also testify that winning is amazeballs best thing oh my sweet Great Pumpkin corn maze paradise wonderful. But that's probably true of winning most awards that you really, really want.)

If you are currently a member, either Attending or Supporting, of Chicon 7, you are eligible to vote for the Campbell Award, along with the Hugo Awards. If you're not a member, either Attending or Supporting, you can view the membership rates by clicking right here. A Supporting Membership comes with voting rights and the complete Hugo packet, and is only $50.

Because writers who are eligible for the Campbell are, by their very nature, relatively new writers, it's possible that you don't know anything about this year's candidates. Jim Hines has sensibly decided to help you with this little problem, and has conducted interviews with all five of this year's nominees. Go, read, and be enlightened!

We have a truly awesome class of Campbell nominees this year; any one of them is worthy of the tiara. Because remember, the Campbell is one of only two major genre awards that comes with a tiara (the other is the Tiptree).

In closing, I present the comic strip I drew to commemorate my own eligibility:

TESTIFY!

tithenai

May 16 2012, 14:45:38 UTC 5 years ago

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Because remember, the Campbell is the only major genre award that comes with a tiara.

Wait, is that true? But the Tiptree!

seanan_mcguire

May 16 2012, 14:55:31 UTC 5 years ago

I didn't think that one had an actual tiara...

5 years ago

dewline

May 16 2012, 14:46:23 UTC 5 years ago

As promotions go, this one is dangerously belly-laugh-inducing.

May 16 2012, 14:55:42 UTC 5 years ago

*curtsey*

jimhines

May 16 2012, 14:59:41 UTC 5 years ago

The problem was that after doing those interviews and reading about these authors, now I want to read ALL THEIR BOOKS!

Which is, now that I think about it, a pretty good problem to have...

May 16 2012, 17:18:45 UTC 5 years ago

Seriously.

reedrover

May 16 2012, 15:00:11 UTC 5 years ago

I'm registered, and I've been studying Jim Hines's posts with pleasure.

(Also, I'm still waiting on my Hugo packet! Pouty face.)

May 16 2012, 15:45:46 UTC 5 years ago

It's supposed to be available some time today...

::Peeks at site, drums fingers impatiently::

dormouse_in_tea

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spectralbovine

May 16 2012, 15:29:22 UTC 5 years ago

Five nominees, four of them women, two of them women of color? Cool!

May 16 2012, 17:19:10 UTC 5 years ago

Seriously!

You should register to vote I'M JUST SAYING.

alitalf

May 16 2012, 17:14:42 UTC 5 years ago

<Grin>

May 16 2012, 17:19:50 UTC 5 years ago

Glee.

brandietarvin

May 16 2012, 21:04:26 UTC 5 years ago

I LOVE the strip. It's brilliant!

May 16 2012, 21:23:55 UTC 5 years ago

Thank you!

rhoda_rants

May 16 2012, 21:21:21 UTC 5 years ago

If you win, I will personally find and mail you a velociraptor, and I will make sure it matches both your tiara and your prom dress. As long as you don't ask where it came from or how I got one...

May 16 2012, 21:26:19 UTC 5 years ago

I did win! In 2010, where I was crowned Princess of the Kingdom of POISON AND FLAME!

yellowblackhaze

May 16 2012, 22:40:42 UTC 5 years ago

Wait...you didn't ride a velociraptor after you won? You should have stayed in Australia a bit longer and gone down to Tasmania, I'm absolutely positive that they've got dinosaurs and thylacines hiding down there in the forests.

May 17 2012, 19:18:27 UTC 5 years ago

I have a velociraptor! On a stick! I rode it.

donaithnen

May 17 2012, 02:23:09 UTC 5 years ago

You make awesome music, you write awesome books (about three awesome books a year in fact!) _and_ you can draw awesome comics.

I'm starting to suspect that you are in fact not human at all =P

May 17 2012, 19:18:39 UTC 5 years ago

I never actually claimed to be...

thedragonweaver

May 17 2012, 02:24:26 UTC 5 years ago

Love the comic. What tiara wouldn't be prettier with a blood-stained prom dress and a chainsaw?

May 17 2012, 19:18:53 UTC 5 years ago

No tiara worth having!

groblek

May 17 2012, 04:41:20 UTC 5 years ago

I love the strip. You are truly a woman of many talents. And I've quite enjoyed Jim Hines' interviews with the nominees. I am very glad that I have four weeks off work between now and the voting deadline while school is out of session. I look forward to curling up with the voting packet in between bouts of getting Josh's new room ready for him.

May 17 2012, 19:19:01 UTC 5 years ago

Yay!

drcpunk

May 17 2012, 06:15:06 UTC 5 years ago

Eagerly awaiting Hugo Packet. Trying not to gnaw through ceiling in eagerness, as we are on the top floor.

May 17 2012, 18:07:10 UTC 5 years ago

From the Chicon Facebook page - "Unfortunately we have had a few last minute technical issues with the Hugo Packet. It's important we address these before releasing the Packet, given the number of people who will download the material in the first few hours. We now expect to issue the Packet on Thursday but look out for a teaser on our website in a couple of hours time! We apologize for any inconvenience - we know you're keen to start reading!"

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