News from the Golden Age
Here’s the thank you I sent to the Parsec Awards committee a couple of weeks ago. I had no idea if I would win or not so it was difficult to think of what to say.
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For the fourth year in a row, I’ve got a novel in the finals of the Parsec Awards. This is the Sixth Annual award ceremony so that’s a pretty good average. I don’t think anybody else has had that many finalists*.
To recap:
2008: Full Share and South Coast.
2009: Double Share
2010: Captain’s Share (Won!)
This year, I’m honored to have two nominations in the finalist lists.
The ceremony and awards will begin at 4:30pm EDT, Sept 3, 2011. I won’t be able to attend (drat) but I’m sure there’ll be plenty of live tweeting and we’ll undoubtedly have a Parsec Panel following along at Dragon*Cant this year, as well.
For the full list of finalists, visit the Parsec Awards web site.
Thanks to everybody who nominated and supported these two works. Special thanks to Tee Morris and Philippa Ballantine for inviting me to play in their sandbox by contributing a steampunk story to the Tales From the Archives anthology, and for the superb post-production work.
We’ll know in a month …
* As Mainframe pointed out in the comments, I’m certainly not the top dog in “most finalists” overall. I was thinking *Long Form* and mis-spoke in my excitement.
Yes.
Now that we got that over with, yes, it’s the end of the Shares. It’s probably not the end of Ishmael Wang. I’ve had a couple of emails about not ending the series and I want to assure you that this series *must* end. It’s the last of the share levels. I can’t write another Share book.
What I can do is start another series. I can fill in the places where there are gaps. I have a whole universe of other stories to tell, some of which will have Ishmael Wang in them, I’m pretty sure.
I’d like to ask you to wait until you see what the ending of this series actually is before getting too upset.
After it’s over, you’ll have plenty of time to be peeved with me. 
Now, fresh comment thread available. 26 should be up in the morning. Some of you will be cheering when it’s over.
I’m not ignoring you in the comment threads. I’m just trying to get these things done…
Thank you to everybody who’s been so generous to me and to podiobooks. Remember that you can also help us with reviews and ratings on iTunes (eh, may wanna wait until the host gets back) and Amazon.
Again, remember this is just to hold you over till Podiobooks comes back up …
