I want to wish Brad and skadder (and any other Hatrackers who are eligible) good luck with possibly being nominated for the John W. Campbell Award for best new SF or Fantasy writer. Due to their recent wins in WOTF, they are both now eligible to be nominated for this award. I believe they are also eligible to be nominated for the Hugo as well.
The following link - WOTF - explains how writers can be nominated and links to various conventions where this can be done. Not to be cliche, but just being nominated is a big honor. Good luck, guys!
Posted by Brad R Torgersen (Member # 8211) on :
Thanks! As I have stated elsewhere, I am reasonably certain that WOTF will be the first and last writing award I ever get. (grin) No worries, if I can have even a little bit of Kevin J. Anderson's success, it's all good.
Posted by skadder (Member # 6757) on :
Yeah. Thanks. It's usually people who have written novel who win, a couple of pro-published short stories like mine won't swing it!
Posted by Wordcaster (Member # 9183) on :
Where can I read your stories? Wotf anthologies or are there additional locations?
Posted by tchernabyelo (Member # 2651) on :
IIRC, Mary Robinette Kowal won it based on short story publication.
Posted by skadder (Member # 6757) on :
True--but novelists tend to win, I think.
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Posted by skadder (Member # 6757) on :
Brad is published in WOTF 26 with me, available as a download from amazon. You can get free kindle software to read it on.
He has also had a number of stories published (some are to be published) in Analog. I think one was November 2010--not sure when the others are. He is also an active member of SFWA. Analog can be purchased from fictionwise and other places as an e-version (amazon too I believe).
I have also been published in Intergalactic Medicine Show in August 2010; Redstone Science Fiction (December 2010) (free to read) and Dark Spires anthology (£2.98 from amazon for e-version).
Novelists tend to win it, yes. I figure I'll have to either sell a ton of short work this year or have the quickest purchase and publish of any novelist in history to have a shot for real since technically 2011 is my last year of eligibility if I make any professional sales. Alas, novels generally take 18-24 months to come out even after contracts are signed, so I'm doomed. The sales, however, will console me
Posted by Kitti (Member # 7277) on :
I'm eligible this year, too, for my story in IGMS.
Good luck to all of you.
Posted by skadder (Member # 6757) on :
Don't forget, if you are eligible, to register on the Campbell Award Eligible Author Site (or something like that).
Posted by snapper (Member # 7299) on :
I was just looking over a few of the authors eligible for the prize. Matthew Bey makes such a compelling argument I am considering lightening my wallet for the right to vote for him.
Hah, that's a great link snapper. He he he he....
Posted by skadder (Member # 6757) on :
Yeah, very funny!
Posted by Foste (Member # 8892) on :
Great sense of humor. I didn't like Pogopolis, but I wish him luck-and all our fellow Hattrackers. Posted by Grayson Morris (Member # 9285) on :
I liked both the stories I read at the link above. "Pogopolis" seemed uneven, like a first draft, and there were a couple of tense problems and some other niggles I had with it, but the author has a gift for phrasing. I'll definitely read more of his work.
That said, I don't know that I'd consider him the best new writer the year has to offer. He reads to me like someone with a talent for writing who needs to acquire some polish.
