Very pleased
The Hugo ballot has been released, and I'm very pleased.
No time right now to go into an analysis of any of the categories or numbers, but I will take a moment to note a couple of SH-related items:
- Sadly, none of our fiction made it onto the ballot. Not entirely surprising; as expected, Asimov's and Analog heavily dominate the short-fiction nominees.
- Frank Wu, illustrator of "Slugball" and featured a year ago in our art gallery, is on the ballot in the Best Fan Artist category. (He asked not to be put in the Pro Artist category.)
- Two writers we've published (Alex Irvine and Jo Walton) are among the Campbell nominees.
- And, um, we were nominated for Best Web Site.
Yay, us!
We're in good company, too: the other nominees are Locus Online, Scifi.com (encompassing both SF Weekly (nonfiction) and Sci Fiction (fiction); I was wondering whether those would be nominated separately or together), SF Site, and Tangent Online, all well-deserving of places on the ballot. Way cool.
And a relief to be able to announce it publicly. We found out (about our being on the ballot, I mean) almost a week ago; I was expecting not to be able to say anything about it for another several days. I heard a rumor it would be announced today, and checked the ConJose site every hour all afternoon; tonight, I checked a couple hours ago, then gave up, figuring there was no chance it would go up tonight. Pleased to have been wrong.
Okay, now I really go edit.