{"id":31784,"date":"2018-01-05T08:39:45","date_gmt":"2018-01-05T13:39:45","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/terribleminds.com\/ramble\/?p=31784"},"modified":"2018-01-05T08:39:45","modified_gmt":"2018-01-05T13:39:45","slug":"awards-eligibility-post-2017","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/terribleminds.com\/ramble\/2018\/01\/05\/awards-eligibility-post-2017\/","title":{"rendered":"Awards Eligibility Post, 2017"},"content":{"rendered":"

<\/a>I’m told now is the time to get those awards eligibility posts out there, and I don’t usually do these, but I’ve had a few people ask,\u00a0so here we are<\/em>.<\/p>\n

I have complicated feelings about awards and eligibility posts — from me, not from you — because I like to think, if I wrote something really good, really impactful, you’d remember it. It would’ve stuck with you. That said, 2017 was the year that lasted ten years, and I have full-facedly forgotten what books actually came out in 2017. I only recently realized that Kameron Hurley’s STARS ARE LEGION came out in 2017? I thought it was 2016? (Probably because I read it in 2016, I think.) As a sidenote, I recommend that book and others over at the Book Smugglers<\/strong><\/span><\/a>.<\/p>\n

So, given that two of my releases —\u00a0Thunderbird\u00a0<\/strong>and\u00a0Empire’s End<\/strong> came out very early in 2017, I guess I’ll pop by and say, hey, those books.<\/p>\n

I wrote them.<\/p>\n

I hope you liked them.<\/p>\n

I suspect there exists\u00a0a zero percent chance anyone would nominate\u00a0Empire’s End<\/strong> or the now-completed\u00a0Aftermath<\/strong> trilogy for any Major Awards, because I don’t think that tie-ins tend to earn them. I am very proud of those books, though, and tried to own them and own the voice even while sharing this epic universe with all the Stars and all the Wars. And I do enjoy the fantasy of them earning a nomination, if only for the underwear-chafing that ensues amongst a certain bigoted cabal of very loud toilet-humans.<\/p>\n

Bonus:\u00a0I wrote a Jar-Jar chapter, and I think it is very good. Which I know, doesn’t sound like reality, but it is reality. It happened. Here we are.<\/p>\n

Also, there’s Damn Fine Story<\/strong>, though I’ve no idea what award that would even go for, or if a book that talks about how the Emperor’s name is really a Star Wars version of “Steve” really deserves an award anyway.<\/p>\n

So, there you have it.<\/p>\n

Happy award season, word-nerds.<\/p>\n

*stomps button with foot*<\/p>\n

*trap door opens*<\/p>\n

*quietly oozes into the open floor portal*<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

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