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.

[nick-kaufmann.livejournal.com]

I was just as thrilled for Laird too, and for the same reason!

[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!).

[mjlayman.livejournal.com]

Congratulations! Perfect choice!

[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!

[ellen-datlow.livejournal.com]

Thank you everyone!

[leethomas.livejournal.com]

YAY!

[ellen-datlow.livejournal.com]

:-)

[fixnwrtr.livejournal.com]

Much heartfelt congratulations.

[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!

[czakbar.livejournal.com]

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

[splinister.livejournal.com]

Hurray!

[bobhowe.livejournal.com]

Hey! Congratulations!

[kaaronwarren.livejournal.com]

Wonderful, Ellen! What a record!

[jamietr.livejournal.com]

Congrats!

[ghostposts.livejournal.com]

Wow! Good for you!

[mroctober.livejournal.com]

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

[safewrite.livejournal.com]

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

How wonderful and well-deserved.