So I really should have posted this several months ago now but I forgot. (I am much better at election blogging than self-promotion-blogging.) I am up for A BUNCH of awards this year for my fiction writing! Specifically:

1. My new book, Liberty’s Daughter, was nominated for the Minnesota Book Award in the Genre category. That one is now “was nominated,” the ceremony was in May and I lost to Emma Törzs’s really excellent Ink Blood Sister Scribe.
   
2. The Locus Awards will be given in late June; my novelette “The Year Without Sunshine” is a finalist.
   
3. The Nebula Awards will be given this weekend in Pasadena, California. “Better Living Through Algorithms” is a finalist for Best Short Story, “The Year Without Sunshine” is a finalist for Best Novelette, and Liberty’s Daughter is a finalist for the Norton Award (best YA).
   
4. The Hugo Awards will be given in August in Glasgow, Scotland. “Better Living Through Algorithms” is a finalist for Best Short Story, “The Year Without Sunshine” is a finalist for Best Novelette, and Liberty’s Daughter is a finalist for the Lodestar Award (best YA).

Upcoming: my novelette “The Four Women Overlooking the Sea” will be published in Asimov’s SF in their September/October issue. For those who’ve heard bits and pieces of this at readings, it’s the one with the frustrated academic woman who studies (or used to study) seals. It’s about selkies (that’s a spoiler, but you know, when something runs in a SF/F magazine and involves seals, everyone’s just kind of waiting for selkies to show up), academia, and the way the contributions of women in academic writing has often been actively obscured. I’m still looking for a publisher for the Ren Faire Portal Fantasy Tarot Card novella — turns out novellas are hard, if Tor.com doesn’t buy it you run out of places to send it kinda fast. I am nonetheless writing another novella (about parallel timelines and someone who falls out of one and into another). We’ll see how that goes.

Anyway, I am going in person to Nebula Weekend and the Hugo Awards and will also be at Scintillation (Montreal) later this month and Convergence (Minneapolis) in July. Anyone looking for signed copies of my work can either find me at a con (I’m always happy to sign stuff) or order it from Dreamhaven or Uncle Hugo’s, both of which almost always have signed copies.