PSA: Nominate, Early and Often

I am in receipt of an email from Anticipation, reminding me that, as a member of that convention, I am eligible to nominate works for the Hugo Awards to be presented in Melbourne, Australia in August of this year.

Any attending (aka voting) member of last year's WorldCon may nominate. Any attending or supporting member of the upcoming WorldCon may nominate. Complete rules here.

First, the obligatory moment of self-promotion:

Sharon Lee and Steve Miller have two novels eligible for nomination: Longeye (Baen, April 2009), and Fledgling (Baen, September 2009) and two short stories: "Hidden Resources," and "Moon on the Hill" (in Halfling Moon, SRM Publisher Ltd, December 2009)

Also eligible are:

Flesh and Fire (novel, Pocket, October 2009), Laura Anne Gilman

Dragon's Bones (novelette, SRM Publisher, Ltd., October 2009), James A. Hetley

Shambling Toward Hiroshima (novella, Tachyon Publications, February 2009), James Morrow

Thirteenth Child (novel, Scholastic Press, April, 2009), Patricia C. Wrede

As previously discussed in these pages, the Hugos are awarded by a very small number of voters, who are motivated to vote, who care about the award, and who nag their friends to vote. So if you feel strongly about a novel/novella/novelette/short story/&c/&c -- nominate it/them. If you feel strongly about the award, get motivated and vote, nag your friends to vote, nag strangers on the street to vote.

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