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NEWS: World Fantasy Awards Nomination Period Now Open (Closes May 31, 2018)

This year’s World Fantasy Awards nomination period is now open.

The World Fantasy Awards will be presented in Baltimore, MD during the World Fantasy Convention (Nov. 1-4). Deadline for nominating is and ballots must be received by May 31, 2018.

All registered members of the 2016 World Fantasy Convention, the 2017 World Fantasy Convention, and the 2018 event in Baltimore will be eligible to vote before the deadline. If you didn’t attend one of the previously mentioned World Fantasy conventions, and you don’t plan to attend this year, you can still nominate by purchasing a supporting membership.

Already registered? Go and nominate your favorite works! Voting information is available on the World Fantasy Convention 2018 website.

To assist you in finding material to nominate, I’ve assembled this post to list everything that I worked on in 2017.

All of Lightspeed’s original fiction from 2017 is available online (and also much of the 2017 original fiction is available as a podcast).
All of Nightmare’s original fiction from 2017 is available online (and also much of the 2017 original fiction is available as a podcast).

After the jump, you’ll find all of the 2017 eligible stories/authors that either appeared in Lightspeed or Nightmare, or in projects I’m otherwise affiliated with. Everything is sorted into their proper World Fantasy categories. In the interest of clarity, I’ve eliminated any science fiction from these lists, as SF is not eligible for the World Fantasy Award.

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Novels

Creatures of Will and Temper by Molly Tanzer (John Joseph Adams Books, November 2017)

Long Fiction (10,000 – 40,000 words)

“The Dragon of Dread Peak” by Jeremiah Tolbert (23,800 words, Lightspeed)
“You Will Always Have Family: A Triptych” by Kathleen Kayembe (11,400 words, Nightmare)

Short Fiction (under 10,000 words)



Anthology

Best American Science Fiction and Fantasy 2017, guest editor Charles Yu, series editor John Joseph Adams (Houghton Mifflin Harcourt)

Collection

Machine Learning by Hugh Howey (John Joseph Adams Books, October 2017)

Professional Artist

Eduardo Recife, Creatures of Will and Temper
Alan Bao, Lightspeed covers: [Feb. 2017, Sep. 2017]
Galen Dara, Lightspeed covers: [Jan. 2017, Nov. 2017]
Randy Gallegos, Lightspeed covers: [Jun. 2017]
Sam Schechter, Lightspeed covers: [May 2017]

Special Award, Professional

John Joseph Adams (publishing and editing Lightspeed Magazine & Nightmare Magazine ; editing anthologies and novels)
Stefan Rudnicki & Gabrielle de Cuir (of Skyboat Media, for audiobook production/narration & producing the Lightspeed and Nightmare podcasts)
The Geek’s Guide to the Galaxy podcast (Host: David Barr Kirtley, Producer: John Joseph Adams)

 

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NEWS: CREATURES OF CHARM AND HUNGER by Molly Tanzer Acquired for John Joseph Adams Books (Houghton Mifflin Harcourt)

In my role as editor of John Joseph Adams Books for Houghton Mifflin Harcourt, I’m please to announce a new acquisition for the imprint. Here’s the deal memo that just ran on Publishers Marketplace:

Molly Tanzer’s CREATURES OF CHARM AND HUNGER, the third book in her series that began with CREATURES OF WILL AND TEMPER, a WWII-era fantasy set in England where two teenage girls seek to become full members of an international society of diabolists, a quest that will nearly ruin their friendship and take them down dark paths when one girl learns her parents were taken to a concentration camp and the other summons a powerful and mysterious demon, to John Joseph Adams Books, for publication in Spring 2020, by Cameron McClure at Donald Maass Literary Agency (World English).

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NEWS: Carrie Vaughn’s BANNERLESS Wins Philip K. Dick Award

Carrie Vaughn’s BANNERLESS—the very first original novel we acquired and published under my John Joseph Adams Books imprint (Houghton Mifflin Harcourt)—just won the Philip K. Dick Award! Huge congrats to Carrie!

The full list of finalists this year were:

THE BOOK OF ETTA by Meg Elison (47North)
SIX WAKES by Mur Lafferty (Orbit)
AFTER THE FLARE by Deji Bryce Olukotun (The Unnamed Press)
THE WRONG STARS by Tim Pratt (Angry Robot)
REVENGER Alastair Reynolds (Orbit)
BANNERLESS by Carrie Vaughn (Mariner/Houghton Mifflin Harcourt) – Winner!
ALL SYSTEMS RED by Martha Wells (Tor.com)

The winner was announced on at Norwescon 41 in SeaTac, Washington.

The Philip K. Dick Award is presented annually with the support of the Philip K. Dick Trust for distinguished science fiction published in paperback original form in the United States during the previous calendar year. The award is sponsored by the Philadelphia Science Fiction Society and the Philip K. Dick Trust and the award ceremony is sponsored by the Northwest Science Fiction Society. This year’s judges were Deborah J. Ross (chair), Robert Onopa, James Stoddard, Amy Thomson, and Rick Wilber.

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Launching on Patreon and Drip, or How to Become a Dragonrider or Space Wizard

I just launched a Patreon (patreon.com/JohnJosephAdams) and a Drip (d.rip/john-joseph-adams) as a way for readers and fans to support my editorial endeavors. Details below.

TL;DR Version

If you enjoy Lightspeed and Nightmare and my anthologies, this is a way for you to help support that endeavor by chipping in a buck or more on a recurring basis. Your support will help us bring bigger and better (and more) projects into the world.

About Lightspeed and Nightmare

Lightspeed is a digital science fiction and fantasy magazine. In its pages, you will find science fiction: from near-future, sociological soft SF, to far-future, star-spanning hard SF—and fantasy: from epic fantasy, sword-and-sorcery, and contemporary urban tales, to magical realism, science-fantasy, and folktales.

Nightmare is a digital horror and dark fantasy magazine. In Nightmare’spages, you will find all kinds of horror fiction, from zombie stories and haunted house tales, to visceral psychological horror.

Each monthly issue of Lightspeed and Nightmare contains an assortment of fiction (9 stories in each issue of Lightspeed; 4 stories in each issue of Nightmare) and nonfiction; every issue is released first in ebook format, and then is serialized on the magazine’s website throughout the month. Both magazines also offer a free story podcast the features selected stories from each issue. The ebook editions are available for sale (and subscription); the online version is free to all.

Lightspeed is a two-time winner of the Hugo Award, and stories published by Lightspeed have won the Hugo Award, and been finalists for the Nebula (16 times!), World Fantasy, Stoker, Sturgeon, and Shirley Jackson Awards.

Nightmare stories have won the Nebula, World Fantasy, and Shirley Jackson awards and have been a finalist for the Stoker Award.

Both have been edited by me since their inception (along with my dedicated team, of course). I’m also the sole publisher of both magazines as well.

About My Indie-Publishing Projects

In addition to editing and publishing Lightspeed and Nightmare, I also edit anthologies for various publishers, and edit my own science fiction and fantasy imprint for Houghton Mifflin Harcourt (John Joseph Adams Books).

But sometimes I also use indie (a/k/a self-publishing) tools to publish anthologies myself, such as HELP FUND MY ROBOT ARMY!!! and Other Improbable Crowdfunding Projects or the three books of The Apocalypse Triptych. Sometimes a project is just something I want to pursue independently, or in a couple of cases a traditional publisher published one of my books and then let it go out of print and the rights reverted to me, so I issued a new edition (as is the case with Federations, Seeds of Change, and The Way of the Wizard).

Why Patreon and Drip?

There are no big companies supporting or funding the magazines, so the magazines really rely on reader support. Though we offer the magazines online for free, we’re able to fund them by selling ebook subscriptions or website advertising.

While we have a dedicated ebook subscriber base, the vast majority of our readers consume the magazine online for free. If just 10% of our website readers pledged just $1 a month, the magazines would be doing fantastically well. So we thought it might be useful to have an option like Drip and Patreon for readers who maybe haven’t considered supporting the magazine, or who maybe haven’t because they don’t have any desire to receive the ebook editions—or who would be glad to pay $1 a month, but not $3 (the cost of a monthly subscriber issue of Lightspeed).

Though Lightspeed and Nightmare are separate entities, we decided to create a single “publisher” Drip and Patreon account because it seemed like it would be more efficient to manage just one page on each platform. Plus, since I sometimes independently publish works using indie-publishing tools (as described above), we thought it would be good to have a single place where folks could come to show their support for such projects.

But basically, we wanted to create a crowdfunding page where, if you enjoy my work as an editor, and you want to contribute a little something to help make it easier for us to produce more cool projects, then our Drip or Patreon will be the place to do that.

If you’ve read this far and are still not sure about pledging any money to the Patreon/Drip or subscribing or the like, but still want to offer some kind of support… please post a reader review on something you loved (especially on Amazon, where they’re most useful). Posting a review of any project of mine would be appreciated, but if you want to support one or both of the magazines, it would be most useful to add a review to the Kindle subscription page. (If you’d like to do that, here’s Lightspeed‘s and here’s Nightmare‘s.)

What Do I Get Out of Being a Backer or Patron?

Well, you get the satisfaction of helping to usher the creation of cool new short fiction projects into the world! Plus, the more support we get, the better we can make the magazines and compensate our authors and staff. By becoming a supporter via Patreon or Drip, you help fund our growth and continued publication of two award-winning magazines. Of course, if you’re already one of our ebook subscribers (thank you!), you are already supporting us. This is for those who prefer to read the issues each month on our free websites, or wish to support our efforts more generally.

If you want something in return for your backing (which is totally reasonable!), please instead choose one of our (non-Patreon) ebooksubscription options.

Thank You!

If you’ve read this far, thanks so much. We hope you’ll consider becoming a backer on Patreon or Drip. Those URLs again are d.rip/john-joseph-adams and patreon.com/JohnJosephAdams.

Thanks in advance for your time. We look forward to hopefully being able to make the magazines—and my other publishing endeavors—even better with the support of people like you.

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NEWS: THE CHAOS FUNCTION by Jack Skillingstead Acquired for John Joseph Adams Books (Houghton Mifflin Harcourt)

In my role as editor of John Joseph Adams Books for Houghton Mifflin Harcourt, I’m please to announce a new acquisition for the imprint. Here’s the deal memo that just ran on Publishers Marketplace:

Jack Skillingstead’s THE CHAOS FUNCTION, about a war reporter who is drawn into a mysterious world of shifting timelines, machines that control probability, apocalypses both nuclear and biological, and a secret society that has the power to shape history—and save the world, to John Joseph Adams Books, for publication in Spring 2019. (World)

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NEWS: Hugo Awards Nomination Period Now Open

This year’s Hugo Awards nomination period is now open. The 2018 Hugo Awards will be presented in San Jose, CA during Worldcon 76 (Aug. 16-20, 2018). Nominations close on March 16, 2017 at 11:59pm Pacific Daylight Time. The list of finalists will be announced on Saturday March 31, 2018.

Anyone who is a voting member of the 2017, 2018, or 2019 Worldcons is eligible to nominate. You may nominate only once, regardless of how many of those three Worldcons you are a member. [Become a member of Worldcon 76.]

Nominations may be submitted through the online ballot. If you’re registered Worldcon 76 will send you (or likely already has sent you) a link and a PIN via email that will allow you to vote.

To assist you in finding material to nominate, I’ve assembled this post to list everything that I worked on in 2017.

All of Lightspeed’s original fiction from 2017 is available online (and also much of the 2017 original fiction is available as a podcast).
All of Nightmare’s original fiction from 2017 is available online (and also much of the 2017 original fiction is available as a podcast).

After the jump, you’ll find all of the 2017 eligible stories/authors that either appeared in Lightspeed or Nightmare, or in projects I’m otherwise affiliated with. Everything is sorted into their proper Hugo categories. In the interest of clarity (and to avoid the confusion that perhaps I’ve left something off the list by accident), I’ve listed some items that are ineligible and have them struckthrough to indicate their ineligibility.

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Novels

BANNERLESS by Carrie Vaughn (John Joseph Adams Books, July 2017)
CREATURES OF WILL AND TEMPER by Molly Tanzer (John Joseph Adams Books, November 2017)
SAND by Hugh Howey (John Joseph Adams Books, July 2017)*
RETROGRADE by Peter Cawdron (John Joseph Adams Books, September 2017)*

* Ineligible due to prior self-published edition.

Novellas, Novelettes, & Short Stories

To aid you in sorting through the voting categories, I’ve color-coded the stories in the following spreadsheets (Novella: red | Novelette: blue | Short Story: black). They’re also all sorted by word count, longest to shortest.







Editor, Short-Form

John Joseph Adams ( Best American Science Fiction and Fantasy 2017 , Lightspeed Magazine, Nightmare Magazine, Cosmic Powers)


Charles Yu (co-editor w/JJA:  Best American Science Fiction and Fantasy 2017 )*

* Not eligible due to not meeting the minimum lifetime requirement of having edited at least four magazine issues, anthologies, or collections.

Editor, Long-Form

John Joseph Adams, John Joseph Adams Books (2017 Books Edited: Creatures of Will and Temper by Molly Tanzer, Bannerless by Carrie Vaughn, Machine Learning by Hugh Howey, Retrograde by Peter Cawdron, Sand by Hugh Howey)

Professional Artist

Chris Foss, Cosmic Powers
Elizabeth Leggett, Retrograde
M.S. Corley, Machine Learning
Eduardo Recife, Creatures of Will and Temper
Alan Bao, Lightspeed covers: [Feb. 2017, Sep. 2017]
Galen Dara, Lightspeed covers: [Jan. 2017, Nov. 2017]
Randy Gallegos, Lightspeed covers: [Jun. 2017]
Odera Igbokwe, Lightspeed covers: [Apr. 2017]
Reiko Murikami, Lightspeed covers: [Mar. 2017, Jul. 2017, Aug. 2017, Oct. 2017]
Christopher Park, Lightspeed covers: [Dec. 2017]
Sam Schechter, Lightspeed covers: [May 2017]

Semiprozine

Lightspeed Magazine *
Nightmare Magazine *

* Now considered “professional” by Hugo rules; no longer eligible in the semiprozine category.

Best Related Work

The Geek’s Guide to the Galaxy (Season Eight), hosted by David Barr Kirtley, produced by John Joseph Adams (Season Eight, consisting of episodes 237-288, released in 2017) [Episode List] [iTunes]

John W. Campbell Award for Best New Writer (1st Year Eligibility)**

Giovanni de Feo
Kathleen Kayembe
Theodore McCombs
Timothy Mudie
Lina Rather
Max Wynne
Cadwell Turnbull

John W. Campbell Award for Best New Writer (2nd Year Eligibility)**

Brian K. Hudson
Dayo Ntwari
Ishi Karki
Kevin Jared Hosein
Matthew Bailey
Jennifer Marie Brissett
Jenn Grunigen
Teresa Naval
Tristina Wright
Gavin Pate
Rose Hartley
Wole Talabi

** Note: For Campbell Eligibility, I did some research to try to verify that these folks were all eligible, but I can’t be 100% sure; if anyone knows that any of these folks are NOT eligible, please let me know. (Likewise please let me know if I missed including anyone eligible that I published on this list.)

REVIEW: “A phantasmagoric murder mystery that wails, chants, laments, and changes shape as audaciously as the mythical beings populating its narrative.” —Kirkus, on THE CITY OF LOST FORTUNES (starred review)

“A phantasmagoric murder mystery that wails, chants, laments, and changes shape as audaciously as the mythical beings populating its narrative. […] The engaging style, facility with folklore, and, above all, impassioned love for the city its characters call home keeps you enraptured by the book’s most chilling and outrageous plot twists.” —Kirkus (starred review), on THE CITY OF LOST FORTUNES [review]

NEWS: THE UNFINISHED LAND by Greg Bear Acquired for John Joseph Adams Books (Houghton Mifflin Harcourt)

In my role as editor of John Joseph Adams Books for Houghton Mifflin Harcourt, I just made a new acquisition. Here’s the deal memo that just ran on Publishers Marketplace:

NYT bestseller and multiple Hugo and Nebula Award-winner Greg Bear’s THE UNFINISHED LAND, about a time of great peril—the sailing of the Spanish Armada—when a young man is transported in a wrecked fishing boat to a lost island at the top of the world, to be caught up in a war that pits gods against monsters and humans against the slavery of history, to John Joseph Adams Books, in a pre-empt, for publication in 2019, by Richard Curtis at Richard Curtis Associates. (NA).  UK/ translation: Baror International.​

NEWS: Nebula Awards Nomination Period Now Open + Free Stuff for SFWA Members

This year’s Nebula Awards nomination period is now open.

From November 15 to February 15, Active and Associate SFWA members may submit nominations for the Nebula Awards. Nominations may be submitted through the online ballot, available here. For more information, visit SFWA’s How to Vote page.

To assist you in finding material to nominate, I’ve assembled this post to list everything that I worked on in 2017.

All of Lightspeed’s original fiction from 2017 is available online (and also much of the 2017 original fiction is available as a podcast). If you are a SFWA member, you can also download an ebook (epub/mobi/pdf) compilation of all 2017’s original material from the SFWA forums.
All of Nightmare’s original fiction from 2017 is available online (and also much of the 2017 original fiction is available as a podcast). If you are a SFWA member, you can also download an ebook (epub/mobi/pdf) compilation of all 2017’s original material from the SFWA forums.
The two original (2017) stories in MACHINE LEARNING by Hugh Howey are not online, but if you are a SFWA member, you can download them from the SFWA forums. [story 1 | story 2]
The two eligible novels I edited for John Joseph Adams Books—BANNERLESS by Carrie Vaughn and CREATURES OF WILL AND TEMPER by Molly Tanzer—are available for SFWA members in the SFWA forums. [BANNERLESS | CREATURES]

After the jump, you’ll find lists of all of the 2017 eligible stories/authors that either appeared in Lightspeed or Nightmare, or in projects I’m otherwise affiliated with.

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Novels

BANNERLESS by Carrie Vaughn (John Joseph Adams Books, July 2017)
CREATURES OF WILL AND TEMPER by Molly Tanzer (John Joseph Adams Books, November 2017)
SAND by Hugh Howey (John Joseph Adams Books, July 2017)*
RETROGRADE by Peter Cawdron (John Joseph Adams Books, September 2017)*

* Ineligible due to prior self-published edition.

Novellas, Novelettes, & Short Stories

To aid you in sorting through the voting categories, I’ve color-coded the stories in the following spreadsheets (Novella: red | Novelette: blue | Short Story: black). They’re also all sorted by word count, longest to shortest.







NEWS: BREAK THE BODIES, HAUNT THE BONES by Micah Dean Hicks Acquired for John Joseph Adams Books (Houghton Mifflin Harcourt)

In my role as editor of John Joseph Adams Books for Houghton Mifflin Harcourt, I just made a new acquisition. Here’s the deal memo that just ran on Publishers Marketplace:

Author of New American Fiction Prize-winning ELECTRICTY AND OTHER DREAMS, Micah Dean Hicks’s debut BREAK THE BODIES, HAUNT THE BONES, in which dangerous machines and unnatural beastmen mysteriously arrive in a dying town already filled with ghosts, forcing a haunted brother and sister to figure out how to save their family before tortured spirits tear the town and the newcomers apart, to John Joseph Adams Books, in a preempt, for publication in Spring 2019, by Kerry D’Agostino at Curtis Brown (NA, Audio).