What? You wouldn’t do this? From Christmas 2011 It did take some structural engineering to get it to stay put because it is a wee bit heavier than your standard tree topper.
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I– that’s a… I have a– Last night, my short story— Rocket!!! It is really hard to wrap my head around having a Hugo. I mean… It’s a HUGO! !!!!!
I am very, very pleased to announce that my short story, “For Want of a Nail” is on the Hugo ballot this year. I got to sit in the crowd at Norwescon and watch the Hugo nominations be announced, live. This was a lot of fun. Especially when my name went up on the screen
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As you know, the Hugo nomination period is open. I thought I’d post a list of my stories published in 2009. Just a reminder, I recused myself from SFWA Nebula eligibility this year, so none of these are Nebula eligible. I’ve bolded my favorites. If the story title has a link, you can read the
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I arrived home from WorldCon last night, absolutely beat. The convention was a great deal of fun, but the highlight for me is summed up in this photo. That’s me, at the Hugo Ceremony, presenting David Anthony Durham with the Campbell Tiara. He wore it the rest of the evening and looks darn good in
I’m in Montreal where I will hand over the Campbell Tiara to the newest winner of the Campbell Award for Best New Writer. I’m seriously looking forward to it. This year had a really strong field with David Anthony Durham, Aliette de Bodard, Tony Pi, Felix Gilman, and Gord Sellar. Any of them would look
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. . I’m heading up to Montreal for Anticipation, the 2009 WorldCon. Here is my convention schedule. Thursday Twitter, Facebook, My Space: Social Media and Writing 14:00, P-513B What’s all the buzz about the new social media? Writing short-short-short stories on Twitter??? Good grief! Is this networking or a new way to write? Can tweets
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The concom at ConQuest 40 were looking for a bio of John Scalzi but wanted something a little more detailed and accurate than the standard wikipedia one. They asked me if I’d assist, given my long-standing friendship with him, and write one for them with some behind the scenes details for the program book. In
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One of the interesting side effects of having a story nominated for a Hugo is that everyone and their cousin posts reviews of them. So, I haven’t been linking to them because it would just get silly. One popped up on my feedreader today from Best Science Fiction Stories. I haven’t run across this site
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My short story “Evil Robot Monkey,” read by Stephen Eley, appears on Escape Pod today as part of their yearly podcast of Hugo nominees. It first appeared in the Solaris Book of New Science Fiction, vol. 2 edited by George Mann. Sliding his hands over the clay, Sly relished the moisture oozing around his fingers.
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It always makes me happy when Joe Sherry over at Adventures in Reading reviews one of my stories. He manages to cover the whole thing without any spoilers, which is pretty amazing for a 970 word story. “Evil Robot Monkey” is a heartbreaking and surprising story. The title might suggest a little robot monkey being
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There’s nothing to make one quite so humble as realizing that photos of one’s husband with a Giant Block of Foam are more popular than links to one’s Hugo-nominated story. That first surge is Evil Robot Monkey. The second is the Giant Block of Foam.
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I have three version of Evil Robot Monkey to offer for your consideration as one of the Hugo nominees for Short Story. It was originally published in the Solaris Book of New Science Fiction, vol. 2 edited by George Mann. You may download a pdf of “Evil Robot Monkey“, illustrated by me. I do layout
Here’s another post that you’re reading days and days after I write it. Short form: My story, “Evil Robot Monkey” has been nominated for a Hugo! !!!! Longform: Jodi and I had a show last Thursday night and went out afterwards with his sweetie, Sam, to hang and celebrate that it went pretty darn well.
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Antiticaption, the 2009 Hugos held in Montreal, has opened the doors for Hugo nominations today, so I thought I’d mention which of my stories came out in 2008. [bfentry id=15 full] (“Evil Robot Monkey” will be appearing in both Rich Horton’s Science Fiction Best of the Year and Gardner Dozois’s The Year’s Best Science-Fiction) [bfentry
2008 Fiction wrap up Read More »