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

[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!

[rosefox]

She might like about 40% of Interfictions, then.

[ellen-datlow.livejournal.com]

You're right. I'll see if I still have it around (and if she's interested in reading it). But I have this feeling she may only be reading anthologies because they're edited by me. But maybe I can broaden her interests!