Back in early August, I went to Glasgow, Scotland, to attend WorldCon, where I won two Hugo Awards:

The Hugo Book Club Blog went looking to see how often this had happened before, and determined that four previous writers had won twice in prose fiction categories in the same year. (Lots more people have won for both a story and a podcast.) The other writers: George R.R. Martin, Gordon Dickson, Connie Willis, and Martha Wells.

I am deeply honored and also feeling a little bit of impostor syndrome. (At this point in my life I rarely feel impostor syndrome but it turns out finding out that I’m on a five-person list with those four people will do it!)

Anyway, if you want to go read the stories I wrote that won, they are Better Living Through Algorithms and The Year Without Sunshine, both free and online.

So yeah: kind of an amazing week. And then I went to Iceland, where I went all the way around the Ring Road with my husband and my dad. I saw puffins! I saw puffins up close! I stood on a glacier! I saw a volcanic eruption! (It started right before we left and we could see it from the road back to the airport.) I may at some point write up a detailed trip report with photos (at least of the puffins) but right now I feel like I should probably write about the judicial elections.

FYI, I have a new story out but it’s out in print — “The Four Women Overlooking the Sea” is in the September/October issue of Asimov’s Science Fiction. (Well, OK, it’s also available in digital subscription — including Kindle Unlimited — but it’s not available on a web page you can just go pull up.)