Campbell Eligibility.

[seanan_mcguire]

It's difficult for me to talk about awards and such for which I qualify. Part of this is the firm conviction that I'm actually asleep (and having a really weird dream), and part of it is that I come from the filk community, where saying "Hey, I'm eligible for award X!" is considered highly tacky and inappropriate. We all have our quirks, I suppose. But still, my particular recalcitrance isn't the standard in the writing community, so I'm trying to get past it. With that in mind...

I am considered eligible for the John W. Campbell Award for Best New Writer.

To quote the site a bit:

The John W. Campbell Award uses the same nomination and voting mechanism as the Hugo, even though the Campbell Award is not a Hugo. To be able to nominate a writer for the 2010 award, you must have either been an attending member of Anticipation (the 67th World Science Fiction Convention in Montreal) or be a supporting or attending member of Aussiecon Four (the 68th World Science Fiction Convention in Melbourne) before Jan. 31, 2010.

Nomination ballots can be found on the Aussiecon website. They must be received before 23:59 PST on March 13, 2010.

If you qualify to nominate, please, take a look at the site I linked above, and see who's eligible for this year's award. There were some really awesome debut authors in 2009, and it would be really bad-ass to see them make the ballot. (Mind you, if I make the ballot, I'll probably stop breathing until Kate slaps me, but...)

This has been your PSA for Thursday.

Comments

[hms42]

Thanks for the link about the other authors. I have to see whom besides you I will nominate to the ballot.

[seanan-mcguire.livejournal.com]

Welcome!

[kateyule.livejournal.com]

Campbell eligibility criteria are such that pointing out one's meeting them really is somewhat of a public device announcement.

[seanan-mcguire.livejournal.com]

Public device announcement?

[kateyule.livejournal.com]

oh, bugger.

[bearhand.livejournal.com]

I now know someone (albeit* from the internet) *((It's late, give me albeit)) who has been nominated for a Campbell award. You realize that now I'll never be able to win the lottery and it's your fault.

For the non-sequitor of the day, Where do you stand on the "Bruce Campbell is the greatest actor of the 80's and 90's?

12 days until "Local Habitation" comes out?

Looks like I'm going to have to buy it. I'm happy to do so, but free is so cool.

[seanan-mcguire.livejournal.com]

I may have been nominated, but I haven't made the ballot. It's going to take a lot of nominations to get on the actual list.

Bruce Campbell is a god made flesh.

Eleven days now. And even when people get things free through me, I beg them to please buy, too. Because I need the numbers.