In which Seanan is nominated for a Nebula Award, and is overcome with gratitude.: seanan

In which Seanan is nominated for a Nebula Award, and is overcome with gratitude.

Last Thursday, while in a car on the way to Half-Price Books, my phone rang. It was an unfamiliar number, and so I answered warily, all too aware of the various scams people are currently conducting. "Hello," said a woman. "I'm looking for Seanan McGuire?"

"May I ask who's calling?"

She identified herself as from SFWA (the Science Fiction Writers of America). I identified myself as Seanan. Lots of identification happened, all while I was going "no, this can't be what I want it to be, because that doesn't happen."

She said, "I am pleased to let you know that your novella, Every Heart a Doorway, has been nominated for a Nebula Award."

I made a noise that only bats could hear. The driver did not run us off the road. The woman laughed. I said the right, polite things. I hung up.

I cried.

This is the first time I have ever been nominated for a Nebula Award (if you don't know what that is, details are here). I have wanted one for as long as I could remember, since I was a little girl and reading anthologies and authors with that amazing word on the cover. And now I'm nominated.

I am so happy.

phoenix_singing

February 24 2017, 13:06:30 UTC 5 months ago

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I've only read Every Heart a Doorway once, haven't got around to a reread, and it still gives me such strong feels. Congratulations on a very well-deserved nomination! <3

mysterysquid

February 24 2017, 13:11:00 UTC 5 months ago

Congratulations!

taylweaver

February 24 2017, 14:27:47 UTC 5 months ago

Congratulations!

Given how amazing that story is, I would have been surprised if it *hadn't* ended up on the list. Which is to say, it very much deserves to be there.

February 24 2017, 14:27:55 UTC 5 months ago

That's fantastic!

cammycat

February 24 2017, 14:37:39 UTC 5 months ago

Congratulations!!!

Love & kitty snugs from TN.

sirfox

February 24 2017, 15:04:18 UTC 5 months ago

AWESOMESAUCE!! congrats!

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YAAAAAAAAAAAYYYYYY

innostrantsa

February 24 2017, 19:29:24 UTC 5 months ago

¡¡ALL OF THE CONGRATULATIONS!!

*¡confetti!*
*¡cupcakes!*
*¡kittens!*

archangelbeth

February 24 2017, 23:45:17 UTC 5 months ago

*cheers your accomplishment!*

notalwaysweak

February 24 2017, 23:58:44 UTC 5 months ago

Bestest news ever!

adafrog

February 25 2017, 00:17:24 UTC 5 months ago

eeee!!!! Congrats!

lylassandra

February 25 2017, 07:16:11 UTC 5 months ago

Congratulations!! I love it when my favorite authors get the recognition they deserve. =)

kdsorceress

February 25 2017, 16:21:50 UTC 5 months ago

Yay yay yay yay yay!!! You are so great and awesome and so totally deserve this!

~Sor

joyce

February 25 2017, 17:10:28 UTC 5 months ago

You out a book out into the world about us 'weird' kids and now it's nominated for a Nebula and shoot, I'm crying a little too.

Thank you for putting the stories out into the world that you do.

Gail Kreis

February 25 2017, 21:37:54 UTC 5 months ago

congratulations, it's well deserved.

montuos

February 26 2017, 04:19:39 UTC 5 months ago

melchar

February 26 2017, 05:32:12 UTC 5 months ago

Congratulations! You deserve it and for -once- I won't mind my yearly dues. I just wish I could vote for you more than once [per nomination / 'Chicago-style' ^_^]

trialia

February 26 2017, 07:07:05 UTC 5 months ago

Oh, honey, I am so, so happy for you. You - and the book - thoroughly deserve this nomination. Congratulations! :D ♥

As an asexual person who grew up as a girl (came out as genderfluid last week, if that reference leaves you wondering & you didn't see me mention it via Twitter), I'm honestly giddy that it should have been this particular book that garnered you your first Nebula nomination (and hopefully also your first Nebula award!), because I have never yet read any other book with an ace MC who knew what they were and was happy with it, and that is a message that badly needs to be disseminated: that we are not broken, or at least, if/when we are, it is not our asexuality that makes us so. It is not an abnormality in us, simply a difference.

Thank you so much.