Mar. 15th, 2019 09:16 am
Award: Stoker Nomination
![[personal profile]](https://www.dreamwidth.org/img/silk/identity/user.png){kind=small}
klwardIt is absolutely, 100% official - "And In Her Eyes the City Drowned", my short story from Weirdbook #39 is a Stoker nominee. That means, it passed from the Recommended Reading List to the Preliminary Ballot, and thence to the Final Ballot on which HWA members are now last-minute voting. I have cast my own. I can only agree with the general consensus that the field is particularly strong this year.
I will in fact be attending Stokercon this year in Grand Rapids, Michigan. To attend Stokercon is a long-held ambition. But I would like to take the opportunity now to thank all the people who read the story (OMGs, people actually read it???!!!), and who liked it enough to nominate and vote for it in the previous rounds. Thanks is obviously due to editor Douglas Draa, who took time out to email me directly after he finished reading the piece, and perhaps less obviously to Kaaron Warren. Kaaron rejected a much earlier draft when she was guest editor of Midnight Echo, and thus, without her discrimination, the present story would not exist.
Thank you all, and see you at Stokercon!
I will in fact be attending Stokercon this year in Grand Rapids, Michigan. To attend Stokercon is a long-held ambition. But I would like to take the opportunity now to thank all the people who read the story (OMGs, people actually read it???!!!), and who liked it enough to nominate and vote for it in the previous rounds. Thanks is obviously due to editor Douglas Draa, who took time out to email me directly after he finished reading the piece, and perhaps less obviously to Kaaron Warren. Kaaron rejected a much earlier draft when she was guest editor of Midnight Echo, and thus, without her discrimination, the present story would not exist.
Thank you all, and see you at Stokercon!
