Tiptee Awards recognize Hollow World in their long list as worthy of attention

Okay, so I'll admit I never got into this writing gig for critical acclaim, I just wanted to write books I wanted to read, and have been more than thrilled that so many others have felt similarly.  I do think Tachyon Publications (the publisher of Hollow World) was a bit disappointed that my Kickstarter followed by traditional release took the book out of the running for the fantasy awards, but I still have no regrets with how that book was released.

Anyway, the Tiptree Awards were recently announced and it was nice to get a nod from them.  Here is a list of books they felt were worthy of attention.

Corinne Duyvis, Otherbound (Amulet 2014)Meg Elison, The Book of the Unnamed Midwife (Sybaritic Press 2014) At the same time that the Tiptree winners were announced, this book won the Philip K. Dick Award.L.S. Johnson, “Marigolds” (Long Hidden: Speculative Fiction from the Margins of History, edited by Rose Fox and Daniel José Older, Crossed Genres 2014)Laura Lam, Shadowplay (Angry Robot/Strange Chemistry 2014)Ken Liu, “Knotting Grass, Holding Ring” (Long Hidden: Speculative Fiction from the Margins of History, edited by Rose Fox and Daniel José Older, Crossed Genres 2014)Sarah Pinsker, “No Lonely Seafarer” (Lightspeed Magazine, September 2014)Michael J. Sullivan, Hollow World (Tachyon 2014)Deborah Wheeler, Collaborators (Dragon Moon Press 2013)Cat Winters, The Cure for Dreaming (Amulet 2014)The winners for 2014 went to:
Monica Byrne’s The Girl in the RoadJo Walton’s My Real Children The Tiptree honor list included:Jennifer Marie Brissett's Elysium Seth Chambers', “In Her Eyes”Kim Curran's “A Woman Out of Time” Emmi Itäranta's Memory of WaterJacqueline Koyanagi's Ascension Alisa Krasnostein and Julia Rios for editing Kaleidoscope Pat MacEwen's “The Lightness of the Movement”Nnedi Okorafor's LagoonNghi Vo's “Neither Witch nor Fairy”Aliya Whiteley's, The Beauty   While inclusion on the long list means I'll be recognized Memorial Day weekend at WisCon, I won't be attending because I'm hard at work writing the Third Riyria Chronicles book.  My congratulations and hopes for a great time go out to all the other honorees.