Hugo Links

I just got back from two weeks’ vacation. I had good time but I’m happy to be home again. While I was gone my Hugo Pin showed up in my inbox, which is exciting. That reminded me that I have some resources for Hugo nomination that I wanted to share with you. These are mostly things that will help you figure out what’s eligible and it what category.

(If you aren’t member of world con you can still nominate if you join by the 31st, also known as next Saturday. As reminder here is why I think you might want to participate)

The official Hugo Awards site Contains news and history. Useful in for nominating because it contains a list of categories which can be helpful.

Hugo Eligible Art(ists) Tumblr Now showing art form 2014. Posts showcases of artists work form the last year. Good for finding out about new artist and what they published in 2014.

Semiprozine Directory A list of things that are eligible for smeiprozine. Very helpful as this category is hard to figure out.

Campbell Award Eligibility Page Lists writers eligible for the Campbell award. This award is technically not a Hugo but is nominated and voted on like a Hugo. Writers are eligible in the two years after their first pro sale.

Lady Business Spread Sheet An open source list of works people liked, by category maintained by the Lady Business editors. Lots and lots of recs. Handy for when you are wondering what novellas (for example) were published in 2014 and if you should read any of them.

Choas Horizon. This blog tries to use data to predict the hugo and nebula nominees. Not very helpful for making your own nominations, especially since it only really covers the novel category, but interesting if you enjoy data driven speculation about awards and the state of the genre.

Joining Things

I decided to make a email account for job hunting since my academic account will be disappearing in a few months. So I went and made gmail account. It's based on my name because that seems to be normal now. But it feels weird. When I first joined things on the internet everyone used pseudonyms and since that seemed to be the normal thing I did too. I guess a lot of time has passed, but still feel uncomfortable sharing my legal name.

Also I finally made a twitter account as Forestofglory. I was spending enough time looking at what people were posting there that I thought I ought to try having an account. I've experimentally followed some people, but I'm still not sure how the whole thing works.