hopeful"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.
Congratulations!
February 24 2017, 04:40:11 UTC 4 months ago Edited: February 24 2017, 04:49:30 UTC
And I would like you to know what I read the weekend after my doctor's office called me at closing time on Friday and said that they just got the results of my MRI and they wanted me to come in first thing Monday morning. I needed comfort reading that weekend, so I re-read...
[Do you want to guess?]
The Velveteen stories.
Your Velveteen stories take my mind off my worries because they're so frivolous: You have a superhero (do you prefer superheroine?) with bunny ears, and you toss around parallel universes like confetti. Yet at the same time Velveteen and her friends seem like real people with real human emotions, people worth caring about. "Imaginary gardens with real toads in them."
P.S. My medical issue turned out to be easy to treat. For details, see my Facebook, or talk to me in October when we "rise up singing".