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.
- Owner’s Share is on the short list for Best Speculative Fiction (Long Form)
- The Amazing Amulet of Amenartas is on the short list for Best Speculative Fiction (Short Form)
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.
Congradulations!
Congrats on 4 consecutive years of being a Parsec finalists .. especially having 2 nods this year. :)
I hate to break it to you but I’m pretty sure between Mur’s books and ISBW (plus this year’s Escape Pod with her new duties over there), she’s probably got you beat on Parsec finalist credits.
But it is safe to assume that the number of people with more finalist badges as you is a very short list. And if you are talking about only the podcast fiction categories, you would be very high on that list, maybe even the top.
Oh and I forgot to say, special congrats on the short story finalist status… there was a LOT of competition in that category (I even had a VERY dark horse in that race). :)
Congratulations!
What is this Dragon*Can’t I keep seeing you talk about?
Good Job Sar.
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Fantastic Nate! Congrats again! Great run so far and here’s to many many more!
@tony, Dragon*Cant is a “virtual convention” for people who can’t attend Dragon*Con in Atlanta over Labor Day weekend. I started just playing around two years ago by taking pictures of things I was doing around the house as if they were events at a convention and then putting them on twitter like all the people at Dragon*Con were doing. “At the food court” was my kitchen while I fixed lunch, “The Game Room” was the dining room table where the family was playing a board game. We had anime viewings and cosplay events. It was basically an excuse for us to get together and play all weekend.
Last year, Brandg and SVAllie joined me and we produced some video panels and did some readings, had periodic “reports from the floor” where we highlighted tweets that we’d seen, and just generally gave people a chance to come together in real time to have a conversation about what was happening. We even did a “Parsec Party” while we followed along as people tweeted the awards from the Parsec Award ceremony.
It was insanely popular with over 50 people from around the country playing along with us and this year we’re hoping that maybe we’ll get a few more. We’ve got new technology to try out, a facebook page (search dragon*cant), and we’re even assembling panels and soliciting volunteers to help us keep it all straight and moving along.
It should be a fun time and the price is really reasonable :)
Thanks, sounds interesting. :)
Oh and, Mainframe?
Yes, I meant only in LONG form. Not all of parsec.
I think a lot of people have more *total* finalists than I do.
Congratulations, Nathan!
Hm, I bet if they moved that con from Atlanta down to a nice Caribbean Island, you’d find a way to go. Or maybe that’s just me… ;)
Nice thought, Lindsay.
But, no. It’s really the timing. That’s a bad time for me to be away from home and I have to choose which cons to invest in. Dragon*Con is not on the list – at least not this year.
Nate – well done! Peer recognition is sweet indeed!
Any word on Double Share or the hard bound editions? Ridan is doing an amazing amount of work lately – they seem to have crossed some turning point and are going gangbusters!
Nothing yet, Sean.
I’ve got a query in.
Thanks, Nate – and by the way, good luck! Nineteen days to go, plus or minus?
September 3rd at 4:30pm ET
:)
But who’s counting?
Congrats Nate on your nomination! The stories are certainly award worthy.
Also can’t wait for the hard covers to start churning out. It’ll be nice to have the whole series in hard cover on my bookshelf to read.
Congrats on another nomination!
So…about that August DoubleShare timeline….are we looking at Sept. now?
Did you take a hit when Borders went under in terms of unpaid copies?
Yeah. Ridan has pushed Double Share back to September now. I’m waiting to get the edits back from them for approval.
And no, I have no books in any physical bookstores. Borders had no effect on me at all.
Congrats on being mentioned in Allen M. Steele’s Hugo acceptance speech