{"id":18158,"date":"2013-03-30T16:51:43","date_gmt":"2013-03-30T20:51:43","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/terribleminds.com\/ramble\/?p=18158"},"modified":"2013-03-30T16:51:43","modified_gmt":"2013-03-30T20:51:43","slug":"in-which-i-am-nominated-for-a-campbell-award","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/terribleminds.com\/ramble\/2013\/03\/30\/in-which-i-am-nominated-for-a-campbell-award\/","title":{"rendered":"In Which I Am Nominated For A Campbell Award"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>My life as a writer so far has been spent basking in good company. I feel genuinely, stupidly, weirdly lucky to be doing what I do, to get to tell stories for a living and to do so in a realm full of kickass human beings and maybe the occasional sentient spam-bot.<\/p>\n<p>As such, I have been nominated for the John W. Campbell Award for Best New Writer.<\/p>\n<p>I have been nominated alongside fellow authors:<\/p>\n<p><a title=\"http:\/\/murverse.com\" href=\"http:\/\/murverse.com\"><span style=\"text-decoration: underline;\"><strong>Mur Lafferty<\/strong><\/span><\/a><\/p>\n<p><a title=\"http:\/\/stina-leicht.livejournal.com\" href=\"http:\/\/stina-leicht.livejournal.com\"><span style=\"text-decoration: underline;\"><strong>Stina Leicht<\/strong><\/span><\/a><\/p>\n<p><a title=\"http:\/\/www.maxgladstone.com\" href=\"http:\/\/www.maxgladstone.com\"><span style=\"text-decoration: underline;\"><strong>Max Gladstone<\/strong><\/span><\/a><\/p>\n<p>and <a title=\"http:\/\/zencho.org\" href=\"http:\/\/zencho.org\"><span style=\"text-decoration: underline;\"><strong>Zen Cho<\/strong><\/span><\/a>.<\/p>\n<p>Further, the past legacy of eye-popping <a title=\"http:\/\/en.wikipedia.org\/wiki\/John_W._Campbell_Award_for_Best_New_Writer\" href=\"http:\/\/en.wikipedia.org\/wiki\/John_W._Campbell_Award_for_Best_New_Writer\"><span style=\"text-decoration: underline;\"><strong>Campbell nominees<\/strong><\/span><\/a> rolls deep.<\/p>\n<p>I am a lucky duckling.<\/p>\n<p>Thank you all for the love.<\/p>\n<p>I&#8217;m going to go tremble and twirl around in a mountainside meadow and sweat and maybe start cobbling together armor from found objects in my office for when Mur Lafferty tries to shank me in the kidneys. Because she will. I just saw her in the shrubbery sharpening a toothbrush.<\/p>\n<p>Full list of this year&#8217;s Hugo and Campbell award nominees <a title=\"http:\/\/www.tor.com\/blogs\/2013\/03\/2013-hugo-award-nominees\" href=\"http:\/\/www.tor.com\/blogs\/2013\/03\/2013-hugo-award-nominees\"><span style=\"text-decoration: underline;\"><strong>here<\/strong><\/span><\/a>, which contains such wonderful authors as Joe Hill, Saladin Ahmed, Seanan McGuire, John Scalzi, Ken Liu, Cat Valente, and more. See you all at LoneStarCon at summer&#8217;s end!<\/p>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>My life as a writer so far has been spent basking in good company. I feel genuinely, stupidly, weirdly lucky to be doing what I do, to get to tell stories for a living and to do so in a realm full of kickass human beings and maybe the occasional sentient spam-bot. 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