Nominated for the John W Campbell Best New Writer Award!

Hello world! I’m jutting my head out of my shell for another big announcement: I’m nominated for the 2014 John W Campbell Best New Writer award!  Kermit flails abound!

I was nominated for the 2013 JWC award, and had a wonderful time—met great people, made good friends, and helped form the first Tiara Club.  (We even got Ben Bova to wear a tiara!)  I’m really, really excited to meet this year’s fellow nominees, and for the general madness which I’m sure will consume and constitute LonCon 3.

Without further ado, the full nominee slate:

Wesley Chu
Max Gladstone
Ramez Naam
Sofia Samatar
Benjanun Sriduangkaew

I’m honored to be on a list with these folks, great writers all across the range of Stuff We Do and Are in Genre.  And since this is my second (and last) year of eligibility, I think I need to figure out how to get a tuxedo to London.

Yes, I used an emoticon on my blog.  There’s a first time for everything!

Also, there’s a lot to love on the Hugo slate this year.  Great writing and podcasts about the genre (the Skiffy and Fanty Show, the Book Smugglers, Justin Landon, Liz Bourke, Kameron Hurley, A Dribble of Ink), wild short fiction (John Chu! Sofia Samatar!), novels (Ancillary Justice! Neptune’s Brood!), editors (Liz Gornisky!!), I could go on and on and on and…

Plus, the part of me that will always be the thirteen-year-old boy who read The Shadow Rising in 24 hours is really, really happy that the Wheel of Time Series got a Best Novel nod.  I know it makes things weird…. but still.  Eternal thirteen year old joy.

No idea whether I’ll be posting again on Wednesday, since I’m (a) on vacation, and (b) unlikely to come up with something witty to say in the next four or five days that isn’t CAMPBELL AWARD!!!!  If so, I’ll be back in a week and a half.  Rock on!