John W. Campbell Award Nominee!
I was just nominated for the John W. Campbell Best New Writer Award! (!!!!!!!!) For those of you playing along at home, the Campbell Award is the Best New Writer award in Science Fiction and Fantasy. It’s not technically a Hugo, but it’s voted on by the Hugo voters, administered by the Hugo Awards committee, and presented at the WorldCon Hugo Awards dinner. So, um. This is a huge deal.
I’m blown away right now. Some past award winners and nominees include: George RR Martin, Jerry Pournelle, Felix Gilman, Diane Duane, Tad Williams (for Tailchaser’s Song!), Lois McMaster Bujold (!), Nalo Hopkinson, Jo Walton, John Scalzi, E. Lily Yu, Saladin Ahmed, John Scalzi, I’m going to stop now or else I’ll just re-copy the entire list. It’s here—one of those lists where you know almost every name. I’m honored, and awed, and really really excited to be nominated for this award. Thanks so much to everyone who voted. I’ve dreamed of being here.
For those of you who haven’t been here before, here’s a link to the book. I like it, and apparently a number of other folks agree with me! I hope you’re all having a wonderful weekend. I sure am.
EDIT: And here’s the full list of nominees, courtesy of LoneStarCon!
EDIT 2: Since I wrote most of that blog post in a rush before the nominations were distributed, I didn’t actually know who else was nominated for the Campbell! Here’s the list, in addition to yours truly:
Zen Cho
Mur Lafferty
Stina Leicht
Chuck Wendig
A range of really impressive and wonderful people. What an honor. I look forward to meeting as many of them as make it to Texas this year! ‘Cos I’m sure going.
