I'm hommmme -and won the first Shirley Jackson award!!

[ellen_datlow]

I had a wonderful, exhausting time at Readercon culminating with the Shirley Jackson awards at which all the winning stories were published by me. Scary but very satisfying.

The best part were the nominee "gifts" everyone was given: a large stone with "Shirley Jackson Awards 2007" printed on it. I will cherish it and promise not to throw it at those who don't like the anthology.

SHORT STORY: "The Monsters of Heaven", Nathan Ballingrud (Inferno, Tor)
COLLECTION: The Imago Sequence, Laird Barron (Night Shade Books)
ANTHOLOGY: Inferno, edited by Ellen Datlow (Tor)
NOVELLA: "Vacancy", Lucias Shepard (Subterranean 7, September 2007)
NOVELETTE: "The Janus Tree", Glen Hirshberg (Inferno, Tor)
NOVEL: Generation Loss, Elizabeth Hand (Small Beer Press)

Comments

[nick-kaufmann.livejournal.com]

Congrats, it was all well deserved!

[ellen-datlow.livejournal.com]

thank you Nick. I'm also very excited for Laird (his work has been nominated for several stories and novellas but never won before) and for Liz Hand.

[ecmyers.livejournal.com]

Wow! Congratulations! That's something to celebrate at the reading this Wednesday!

[ellen-datlow.livejournal.com]

thank you! I'm thinking I should bring the award to show it off. I'll suggest it to JoAnn and the judges.

[crookedfeet.livejournal.com]

Congratulations! A very impressive set of winners overall-I was especially glad to see the Barron and Hand books getting some well-deserved recognition, as well as Inferno.

[gillpolack.livejournal.com]

Congratulations!

[zhai.livejournal.com]

Congratulations! I was tickled when I heard. Well deserved indeed.

[charlesatan.livejournal.com]

Congrats!

P.S. Maybe next year, you can do the "will my mom like this anthology" test again (you never know!).

[ellen-datlow.livejournal.com]

Thank you...well I already know that she didn't like the Del Rey book as myuch. I think I'm beginning to understand her taste. She's the opposite of most sf aficionados. She wants stories that she can get into immediately without sf trappings. Stories that start solidly in a world she can relate to --then if it gets a bit weird she can still follow it!

[mjlayman.livejournal.com]

Congratulations! Perfect choice!

[ellen-datlow.livejournal.com]

Thank you everyone!

[leethomas.livejournal.com]

YAY!

[ellen-datlow.livejournal.com]

:-)

[fixnwrtr.livejournal.com]

Much heartfelt congratulations.

[czakbar.livejournal.com]

Congrats, Ellen! That's a great list of winners and nominees!

[splinister.livejournal.com]

Hurray!

[bobhowe.livejournal.com]

Hey! Congratulations!

[ellen-datlow.livejournal.com]

thanks!

[kaaronwarren.livejournal.com]

Wonderful, Ellen! What a record!

[ellen-datlow.livejournal.com]

thanks, Kaaron. It'll never happen again (or at least couldn't for another couple of years, till the Poe antho is out !)

[jamietr.livejournal.com]

Congrats!

[ghostposts.livejournal.com]

Wow! Good for you!

[mroctober.livejournal.com]

Terrific news. How cool 'bout the stones! Congrats!

[ellen-datlow.livejournal.com]

thanks and to everyone!!! Yes, I'll try to take a photo of it...or maybe they'll show them on the Jackson website.

[safewrite.livejournal.com]

..."all the winning stories were published by me."

How wonderful and well-deserved.

[sarcobatus.livejournal.com]

Wonderful! Absolutely wonderful. So happy for you, and Laird, and Nathan, and all!

[ellen-datlow.livejournal.com]

Thank you.

[birdhousefrog.livejournal.com]

Oh congrats! That's fab! The very first stone thrown!

Oz

[ellen-datlow.livejournal.com]

thanks, Oz. It was great seeing you there.

[ratmmjess.livejournal.com]

Congratulations!

[ellen-datlow.livejournal.com]

thanks Jess!

You did it, after all . . .

[(Anonymous)]

The best part were the nominee "gifts" everyone was given: a large stone with "Shirley Jackson Awards 2007" printed on it.

Stone me! You said you were going to keep it a secret from us.

Lagavulin Bottles at Dawn.

Re: You did it, after all . . .

[ellen-datlow.livejournal.com]

Hey Christopher, I know it's you...
Well I didn't know you were going to run over to my blog :-) But you'll see --they're great!

[apexdigest.livejournal.com]

Wow...it's like INFERNO might be pretty good or something?

Congrats, Ellen! :)

[ellen-datlow.livejournal.com]

I hope so, although obviously some reviewers don't think so ;-)

Woot! Woot!

[themadblonde]

Excellent, well done! Give the judges a prize for good taste! ;-)

Re: Woot! Woot!

[ellen-datlow.livejournal.com]

thank you. Btw, I got your surprise package today! Very nice. I tried several sets of batteries to see what that dolly does but no dice--it's really weird anyway...and the other one? The ...flapper--I'm speechless. Thanks for the great surprise!

[dsmoen.livejournal.com]

A well-deserved congratulations!

[ellen-datlow.livejournal.com]

Thank you!

[ouronlyhunter.livejournal.com]

Congrats! I haven't read Inferno yet, but do plan on picking it up since Laird mentioned it in his LJ and he has a story in it. (And it helps that Monsters of Heaven got a Shirley Jackson award as well :D) Also, I'm assuming from what you said that The Monsters of Heaven was first published in Inferno. Or maybe solely there. Congrats on spotting that one, too.

Thank you for continuing to publish his work. I've only just discovered him due to the Imago sequence. I am incredibly excited about the Lovecraft Unbound anthology, too, and I also need to pick up the Del Ray Science Fiction/Fantasy anthology. (Heh. I have a feeling he'll be throwing a lot of your work my way, though.)

[ellen-datlow.livejournal.com]

Yup, "Monsters of Heaven" is in Inferno, too but I've also picked it for my Year's Best (coming out in October). Gordon Van Gelder and I do publish a lot of his work. Yup :-) --Maybe most of it.