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!

[ecmyers.livejournal.com]

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

[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 everyone!

[leethomas.livejournal.com]

YAY!

[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!

[kaaronwarren.livejournal.com]

Wonderful, Ellen! What a record!

[jamietr.livejournal.com]

Congrats!

[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.

[sarcobatus.livejournal.com]

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

[birdhousefrog.livejournal.com]

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

Oz

[ratmmjess.livejournal.com]

Congratulations!

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.

[apexdigest.livejournal.com]

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

Congrats, Ellen! :)

Woot! Woot!

[themadblonde]

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

[dsmoen.livejournal.com]

A well-deserved congratulations!

[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.)