Dear All,
It’s Hugo nomination season. In fact, the deadline to submit your Hugo nominations is Thursday, March 31st.
If you love something, nominate it. It’s really that easy.
- Your ballot is anonymous.
- You don’t have to fill out all five slots.
- You don’t have to fill in all of the categories.
- You can nominate even if you only read or watched one thing last year.
- You can start your ballot now and change it or add to it right up until the deadline.
If you’d like to consider something of mine, please read Poseidon’s Eyes, a short story published in Volume 31 of Writers of the Future. If you don’t want to buy the whole book, you can read the story for free on Wattpad (you might have to register).
As you read it, I’d like to make a special request. Please don’t nominate the story because you like me or something else I’ve written, because I’m female, to piss someone off or because of what happened last year.
To my mind, there is only one valid reason to nominate something for a Hugo – because you love it.
I live in one of those places where the mail doesn’t come to the house. We all have PO boxes, so getting the mail requires a trip to the local post office. And that’s what I was doing a few days before Christmas when an unexpected package arrived. Believe me, no child on Christmas morning could have been more delighted than I was when I saw what was inside.
The second is my fellow nominee, Ken Burnside, who graciously sent out 3D-printed Crashlander Awards. THREE-DEE PRINTED! How cool is that? It, too, has a place of honor on my brag shelf.