{"id":1708,"date":"2014-02-10T06:10:48","date_gmt":"2014-02-10T11:10:48","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.graymanwrites.com\/blog\/?p=1708"},"modified":"2014-02-10T06:10:48","modified_gmt":"2014-02-10T11:10:48","slug":"let-me-know-if-you-nominate-one-of-my-stories","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.grayrinehart.com\/blog\/let-me-know-if-you-nominate-one-of-my-stories\/","title":{"rendered":"Let Me Know if You Nominate One of My Stories"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Strictly out of ego-boosting curiosity, if you happen to put one of my stories into an otherwise-unused spot on your Nebula or Hugo Award nomination form, I&#8217;d be interested to know about it.<\/p>\n<p><img decoding=\"async\" alt=\"\" src=\"http:\/\/www.graymanwrites.com\/pix\/ASF-July2013.gif\" \/><br \/>\n<em>(My best story of 2013 was in the July issue of Asimov&#8217;s.)<\/em><\/p>\n<p>For readers who don&#8217;t follow the science fiction and fantasy field, the <a href=\"http:\/\/www.sfwa.org\/nebula-awards\/\">Nebula Awards<\/a> are roughly equivalent to the Oscars or the Grammies, while the <a href=\"http:\/\/www.thehugoawards.org\/\">Hugo Awards<\/a> correspond more to the People&#8217;s Choice Awards. Nebula nominations are due this Friday, and Hugo nominations are due the end of next month.<\/p>\n<p>Of my eligible fiction published last year, I think my best story was definitely the novelette, &#8220;What is a Warrior Without His Wounds?&#8221;, which appeared in <a href=\"http:\/\/www.asimovs.com\/2013_07\/tableofcontents.shtml\">Asimov&#8217;s Science Fiction<\/a> in July. It&#8217;s the story of a\u00a0double amputee given the chance to have a whole, healthy body again &#8212; but at a terrible cost. (I also published two short stories last year: &#8220;A Star That Moves,&#8221; in <a href=\"https:\/\/www.createspace.com\/4258689\">LORE<\/a> in April, and &#8220;The Entropy Box,&#8221; published in October in the <a href=\"http:\/\/www.amazon.com\/Writers-Relief-Vol-Davey-Beauchamp\/dp\/1492391344\">Writers for Relief III<\/a> anthology edited by Davey Beauchamp and Stuart Jaffe. Of the two, I think &#8220;A Star That Moves&#8221; is better.)<\/p>\n<p>Of course, my other creative pursuit of 2013 was <a href=\"http:\/\/www.cdbaby.com\/cd\/grayrinehart\">Truths and Lies and Make-Believe,<\/a> but there&#8217;s no music category for the Nebulas or the Hugos. 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