Peer Pressure and Hugo Nominations

It's that time of year again, when the Hugo nominations are open and people are looking for things to nominate. (I think the Nebulas are likewise open, but I might be wrong.) Last year I was fortunate enough to have Boneshaker on the ballot, and even though I feel like it is unreasonably optimistic (and perhaps inexcusably greedy) to hope for a second shot at that shiny rocket statue … well, people are urging me to mention what's eligible. So here goes.

In 2010 I saw published:

One novel: Dreadnought, through Tor.

One novella: Clementine, through Subterranean.

And one short story: "Reluctance," in The Living Dead II anthology by Night Shade Books.



That's all!

At present – and depending on the unfathomable flux of publishing schedules – it looks like 2011 will be a much heartier year of output for yours truly, at least, I certainly hope so. Not that I'm not proud of 2010′s offerings – far from it! But because it looks like an awful short list.* [:: squints critically ::] Or maybe I'm just nuts.

* At present, I have four books scheduled for release in 2011 – Ganymede, Bloodshot, Hellbent, and Fort Freak – for which I wrote the interstitial, but not the entire novel. However, my contribution to that project was every bit as time-consuming and exhausting and viciously ass-kicking as any full book I've ever written. So I'm totally counting it.

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