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2017 Award-Eligible Work Blog Posts & Roundups for F&SF

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Hello! I’m posting my yearly round-up of eligibility posts. If you’ve got one, let me know by commenting here, e-mailing me, or messaging on social media. I’ll update daily.

An eligibility post is a blog or social media post listing what you published in 2017 that is eligible for awards such as the Compton Crook, Dragon, Endeavour, Hugo, Lambda, Nebula, World Fantasy Award, and WSFA awards, and sometimes including information such as which pieces you like the best or think are the strongest, word length, and genre. You can click through for many examples.

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  6. I haven’t checked my eligibility for all the awards you’ve mentioned, but I’m pretty sure my trilogy qualifies for the Hugo ‘series’. The first book was published Sept/2016 and the other two in 2017.

    The Bobiverse series:
    We are Legion (We are Bob)
    For We are Many
    All These Worlds

    I’m not submitting links because that often sends a comment post into the spam folder, but can provide them on request. Available on Amazon and Audible.

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  7. http://www.ursulapflug.ca/2017-award-eligibility-list/

    In 2017 I published Mountain, a near-future YA novella. It was endorsed by Candas Jane Dorsey and Governor General’s Award winning artist and writer Heather Spears. It’s available from Overdrive, as an Ebook and as a paperback from the publisher and online retailers. It’s received nice notices in Canada and the US. In my Awards Post I also talk about indigenous Canadian writers of speculative fiction Eden Robinson and Leanne Betasamosake Simpson. Both were published as mainstream and shortlisted for major Canadian awards.

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  10. I have ONE! Short story!

    “The Queens’ Confederate Space Marines,” appearing in Dogs of War Vol. 1 (Jan 2017). Editor: Fred Patten. Publisher: Furplanet. (ISBN: 978-1-61450-346-0)

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  22. I think a story of mine is eligible? It’s called “The Fourth Hill” and appeared in Asimov’s September issue last year. I realize I’m right at the end of the nominating season but I’ve been a little busy with school and work the past few months and didn’t really look into any of this. 🙂

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You Should Read This: On Writing by Stephen King

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"Words create sentences; sentences create paragraphs; sometimes paragraphs quicken and begin to breathe." - Stephen King
When I taught at Hopkins, the students used to defiantly bring up King as an example of what they liked to read. It always surprised them when I said I liked him too. It feels like I’ve been reading Stephen King all my life. At least, for a very long time. He’s produced a lot of wonderful books, including one of my favorites, The Stand. In this book you get to see beneath the covers on a lot of those books.

What: On Writing: A Memoir of the Craft by Stephen King is divided into two parts. The first is an autobiographical look at his writing over the years. It is unflinching and honest and well worth the read. The second is stuff about writing. It is also unflinching and honest and well worth the read.

Who: If you are a writer who buys writing books, it maybe impossible for you not to know about this book already. If you’re a writer who doesn’t read books about writing — this one’s worth picking up.

Why: Read this to become a better writer, or just to understand the craft better. King uses the metaphor of the writer’s toolbox, which is a very useful one.

I want to suggest that to write to your best abilities, it behooves you to construct your own toolbox and then build up enough muscle so you can carry it with you. Then, instead of looking at a hard job and getting discouraged, you will perhaps seize the correct tool and get immediately to work.

What goes in your toolbox? Vocabulary and punctuation. Point of view. Literary Devices. Foreshadowing. You get the picture.

When: Read this when you’re feeling a bit starved for the muse and want to be reminded that writing is a matter of work, not divine inspiration.

Where and how: Read it with pen in hand, ready to underline and make notes that apply to your own writing. Read it with King’s books close by, so you can reach for them and see his principles played out in their pages.

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Recent Reading From September

Linoleum print I did in 2008 (?). Meant to use it on Christmas cards, then never got around to it.
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I went through the usual slew of books in September, but I thought I’d mention some of the more notable ones. Links go to the Kindle edition when available, because I do most of my reading on that.

Erin Morgenstern’s THE NIGHT CIRCUS was a terrific read and one that will delight fans of THE PRESTIGE and CARTER BEATS THE DEVIL. Lots of gorgeous and beautiful description of a highly evocative setting and the love story that plays out against it.

While on a visit to Baltimore recently, I was introduced to Joe Hill’s graphic horror novel, LOCKE AND KEY. I read the first one, and am looking forward to the rest.

THE PALACE JOB by Patrick Weekes was a terrific romp of a fantasy read, and is an Ocean’s Eleven type adventure played out against a fantasy setting.

Jonathan Wood’s NO HERO and YESTERDAY’S HERO reminded me of a less frenetic Charlie Stross. Another fun and frothy urban fantasy was Jennifer Willis’ VALHALLA.

Love Joe Lansdale, but I’m reading him slowly in order to spread out the cost of getting all the Hap and Leonard novels. September held THE TWO-BEAR MAMBO as well as a collection of short fiction, BUMPER CROP.

I go back every few years to read E.F. Benson’s Mapp and Lucia novels. Why doesn’t someone do a fantasy version of these? That would be so awesome.

THE WEIRD: A COMPENDIUM and THE APEX BOOK OF WORLD SCIENCE FICTION are both books that I am dipping into periodically, spacing them out so I can think about the stories, rather than absorb them all in one long read.

THE BANDIT KING by Lilith Saintcrow is a fantasy romance, the sequel to THE HEDGEWITCH QUEEN. I’ve yet to find a Saintcrow book that I haven’t enjoyed.

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  • FROM AN ANONYMOUS SOURCE purports to be written by a senior White House official. It’s entertaining if you’re interested in politics.

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