World Fantasy Award nominations announced

Congratulations everyone:

http://tinyurl.com/3ldzulr

World Fantasy Nominees and Lifetime Achievement Winners


The World Fantasy Awards Lifetime Achievement Winners for 2011 are Peter S. Beagle and Angélica Gorodischer. The awards are presented annually to individuals who have demonstrated outstanding service to the fantasy field.

The World Fantasy Awards nomination ballot has also been announced. Winners will be announced at this year’s World Fantasy Convention, to be held October 27-30, in San Diego CA. (Lifetime Achievement winners are announced in advance of the event).

Nominees are:

Best Novel

Zoo City, Lauren Beukes (Jacana South Africa; Angry Robot)
The Hundred Thousand Kingdoms, N.K. Jemisin (Orbit)
The Silent Land, Graham Joyce (Gollancz; Doubleday)
Under Heaven, Guy Gavriel Kay (Viking Canada; Roc; Harper Voyager UK)
Redemption In Indigo, Karen Lord (Small Beer)
Who Fears Death, Nnedi Okorafor (DAW)

Best Novella

Bone and Jewel Creatures, Elizabeth Bear (Subterranean)
The Broken Man, Michael Byers (PS)
“The Maiden Flight of McCauley’s Bellerophon”, Elizabeth Hand (Stories: All-New Tales)
The Thief of Broken Toys, Tim Lebbon (ChiZine)
“The Mystery Knight”, George R.R. Martin (Warriors)
“The Lady Who Plucked Red Flowers beneath the Queen’s Window”, Rachel Swirsky (Subterranean Summer 2010)

Best Short Fiction

“Beautiful Men” , Christopher Fowler (Visitants: Stories of Fallen Angels and Heavenly Hosts)
“Booth’s Ghost”, Karen Joy Fowler (What I Didn’t See and Other Stories)
“Ponies”, Kij Johnson (Tor.com 11/17/10)
“Fossil-Figures”, Joyce Carol Oates (Stories: All-New Tales)
“Tu Sufrimiento Shall Protect Us”, Mercurio D. Rivera (Black Static 8-9/10)

Best Anthology

The Way of the Wizard, John Joseph Adams, ed. (Prime)
My Mother She Killed Me, My Father He Ate Me, Kate Bernheimer, ed. (Penguin)
Haunted Legends, Ellen Datlow & Nick Mamatas, eds. (Tor)
Stories: All-New Tales, Neil Gaiman & Al Sarrantonio, eds. (Morrow; Headline Review)
Black Wings: New Tales of Lovecraftian Horror, S.T. Joshi, ed. (PS)
Swords & Dark Magic, Jonathan Strahan & Lou Anders, eds. (Eos)

Best Collection

What I Didn’t See and Other Stories, Karen Joy Fowler (Small Beer)
The Ammonite Violin & Others, Caitlín R. Kiernan (Subterranean)
Holiday, M. Rickert (Golden Gryphon)
Sourdough and Other Stories, Angela Slatter (Tartarus)
The Third Bear, Jeff VanderMeer (Tachyon)

Best Artist

Vincent Chong
Kinuko Y. Craft
Richard A. Kirk
John Picacio
Shaun Tan

Special Award, Professional

John Joseph Adams, for editing and anthologies
Lou Anders, for editing at Pyr
Marc Gascoigne, for Angry Robot
Stéphane Marsan & Alain Névant, for Bragelonne
Brett Alexander Savory & Sandra Kasturi, for ChiZine

Special Award, Non-Professional

Stephen Jones, Michael Marshall Smith, & Amanda Foubister, for Brighton Shock!: The Souvenir Book Of The World Horror Convention 2010
Alisa Krasnostein, for Twelfth Planet Press
Matthew Kressel, for Sybil’s Garage and Senses Five Press
Charles Tan, for Bibliophile Stalker
Lavie Tidhar, for The World SF Blog

Hello I must be going+ photos from Porter Square Naked City reading

So...I wrote a post on LJ, pushed post and it got hung up and never posted. In addition, my DW posts are not going there. This is extraordinarily frustrating.

I've mostly been tweeting as it's quicker and everything goes directly to FB. (I don't care for the enforced brevity but...).

Briefly: toe's doing well--doc says to come back end of September and if it's still a little "thick" I can have a cortisone shot to help ease the internal scarring, but he thinks that over time it will continue to get better. No boot no cane. I'm walking. I told him I'm worried about winter when I'll be wearing closed shoes and boots but he says I could do so now if I want. ( I don't want).

Off to mom's tomorrow -steamy Florida for a week (if the threatened thunderstorms don't delay/cancel the flight). All you can eat Chinese/Japanese, lobster, Lucille's bbq, lots of movies (rented or in the theater--I'm going to see Harry Potter with my mom), may see some relatives. Reading for Best Horror #4 and catching up on my New Yorkers. I will be online too.

Oh yeah. I posted store guy Josh Cook's photos that he took of the reading in Cambridge, MA the 14th:http://tinyurl.com/3qesq4w
and of beautiful Bella here: http://tinyurl.com/433lgz4
I need to take new photos of Sophie. When I get home.

paying forward

The wonderful Colleen Lindsay just reminded me during her Book Country chat that it's our responsibility (all readers) to pay forward and recommend writers/works we've enjoyed.

I just finished a grim yet hilarious story by Jeff Ford that's forthcoming from Jack Dann and Nick Gever's excellent original anthology Ghosts by Gaslight. It's from his Well-Built City trilogy and stars Physiognomist Cley. There are some wonderfully dark stories in the anthology by Laird Barron, Terry Dowling, John Langan, John Harwood, and others. It'll be out in September.

I'd also like to recommend the third volume of Richard Kadrey's Sandman Slim novels: Aloha From Hell, which is clever, brutal, vicious, and a helluva a lot of fun. That should be out this fall (the second volume, Kill the Dead is just out in pb).