{"id":15358,"date":"2016-08-25T14:04:00","date_gmt":"2016-08-25T21:04:00","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.kith.org\/journals\/jed\/2016\/08\/25\/15358.html"},"modified":"2016-08-25T14:04:00","modified_gmt":"2016-08-25T21:04:00","slug":"dragon-award-deadline-impendin","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.kith.org\/jed\/2016\/08\/25\/dragon-award-deadline-impendin\/","title":{"rendered":"Dragon Award deadline impending"},"content":{"rendered":"\n<p>Dragon Con is running an award this year, the <a href=\"http:\/\/awards.dragoncon.org\/\">Dragon Award<\/a>. They had a nominations phase that's now over; voting on the final ballot is due Thursday, September 1, one week from today.<\/p>\n<p>Anyone can vote, for free. To sign up, you go to their page, and you tell them your email address; they send you a verification email; you verify; they eventually send you a link to an online ballot. (It took 36 hours between my verifying my email address and their sending me a link to the ballot.)<\/p>\n<p>It seems weird to me that they don't post the list of finalists publicly. Various sites have published it; see, for example, <a href=\"http:\/\/www.theverge.com\/2016\/8\/13\/12461038\/dragon-awards-shortlist-dragoncon-science-fiction-fantasy\">The Verge<\/a>. The list is an odd and interesting mix of stuff: some Puppy-connected works, some not, a fair number I've never heard of.<\/p>\n<p>(Note that Scalzi explicitly <a href=\"http:\/\/whatever.scalzi.com\/2016\/08\/11\/declining-my-dragon-award-nomination\/\">asks that people not vote for his novel<\/a>, because he announced, before the Dragon Award existed, that he was withdrawing all of his 2015-dated work from awards consideration.)<\/p>\n<p>You get only one vote in each of the fifteen categories.<\/p>\n<p>Note that the FAQ for potential nominees explicitly says &ldquo;the Dragon Awards are a fan choice, and it is perfectly acceptable for you to encourage your fans to vote for you.&rdquo;<\/p>\n<p>(See also <a href=\"https:\/\/www.facebook.com\/jed.hartman\/posts\/10210380648732484\">Facebook thread<\/a> for this post.)<\/p>\n\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Dragon Con is running an award this year, the Dragon Award. They had a nominations phase that&#8217;s now over; voting&#8230;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":5,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_acf_changed":false,"footnotes":""},"categories":[82,39],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-15358","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-awards","category-conventions"],"acf":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.kith.org\/jed\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/15358","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.kith.org\/jed\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.kith.org\/jed\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.kith.org\/jed\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/5"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.kith.org\/jed\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=15358"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.kith.org\/jed\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/15358\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.kith.org\/jed\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=15358"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.kith.org\/jed\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=15358"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.kith.org\/jed\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=15358"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}