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Hugo nominations chance ending soon!
Jan. 30th, 2024 07:58 pmThe recent news about extreme hinkiness in last year's Hugo Awards (works ruled ineligible without the authors being notified or any reason given; questionable voting numbers; attendees' voting rights reportedly being reassigned to the convention committee) is deeply disturbing -- me, I'm in favor of a Retro Hugo for 2023 in an upcoming year, since we already have that structure in place -- but for this upcoming year, the more people who get involved, the better! If you want to nominate, you have until tomorrow to get at least a supporting membership to the Glasgow Worldcon -- you don't have to be planning to attend in person to get involved.
(There are technical difficulties right now with the nominations form, which they are trying to fix, but you can still register.)
I posted about my 2023 publications back in December, but it's rather a long list this time. If you pointed a knife at me and demanded I choose my favorites, I'd give it to "At the Heart of Each Pearl Lies a Grain of Sand" (which is unfortunately paywalled, but SMT is great and you should subscribe to it!) and the Rook and Rose trilogy in toto, now that it's finished up with Labyrinth's Heart being published last year. I genuinely think it's one of the best series I've (co-)written: Alyc and I had a much more complete plan than usual going into it, which meant we were able to play all kinds of long games across the three books, from seeding tiny worldbuilding details that would be load-bearing later, to pacing the arcs of the characters and their relationships, to braiding many strands of plot together into a complex rope. I think it repays re-reading more than anything else I've written, in terms of being able to say ohhhhh, waitasec, I see where that's going now -- -- which is not the only way for a series to be good, but it's certainly one of them!
So yes, register by tomorrow if you want to nominate, whether that's something of mine or anything else you enjoyed from 2023!
(originally posted at Swan Tower: https://is.gd/V6qsjk)
(There are technical difficulties right now with the nominations form, which they are trying to fix, but you can still register.)
I posted about my 2023 publications back in December, but it's rather a long list this time. If you pointed a knife at me and demanded I choose my favorites, I'd give it to "At the Heart of Each Pearl Lies a Grain of Sand" (which is unfortunately paywalled, but SMT is great and you should subscribe to it!) and the Rook and Rose trilogy in toto, now that it's finished up with Labyrinth's Heart being published last year. I genuinely think it's one of the best series I've (co-)written: Alyc and I had a much more complete plan than usual going into it, which meant we were able to play all kinds of long games across the three books, from seeding tiny worldbuilding details that would be load-bearing later, to pacing the arcs of the characters and their relationships, to braiding many strands of plot together into a complex rope. I think it repays re-reading more than anything else I've written, in terms of being able to say ohhhhh, waitasec, I see where that's going now -- -- which is not the only way for a series to be good, but it's certainly one of them!
So yes, register by tomorrow if you want to nominate, whether that's something of mine or anything else you enjoyed from 2023!
(originally posted at Swan Tower: https://is.gd/V6qsjk)
