Or in this case, award nominations! OWW alumni continue to take the genre world by storm. Three of our former members were nominated for Nebula awards this week.
Novella: Beth Cato was nominated for Wings of Sorrow and Bone
Novel: N.K. Jemisin was nominated for The Fifth Season
Fran Wilde was nominated for Updraft
Andre Norton Award for Young Adult Science Fiction and Fantasy: Fran Wilde was nominated a second time for Updraft
Huge congratulations to all of you and the best of luck!
OWW alumni Josh Vogt and Fran Wilde are both Compton Crook Award Finalists! Huge congratulations to both of them.
And Josh Vogt earns double congratulations. His story “Have You Seen Me?” was just published in Fantasy Scroll Magazine.
It’s been a good couple of weeks for OWW alumni.
Kathyrn Allen wants us to know: “My short story “Unheil” has made it into print in Typhon: A Monster Anthology. The book is available via Amazon and Amazon Uk.“
Jeremiah Tolbert’s story “Not By Wardrobe, Tornado, or Looking Glass” appears in the February issue of Lightspeed Magazine.
Amber Van Dyk’s story “And the Woods Are Silent” was published in the latest issue of The Dark.
And the covers for Fran Wilde’s next book, Cloudbound, and a new cover for the trade paperback edition of Updraft were revealed. Watch for Cloudbound in September 2016.
Elad Haber sold a reprint of his story “Do What You Desire” to Strange Constellations. Watch for it in May 2016.
Aimee Odgen’s story “The Goblin Knight” appeared in the January 2016 issue of Spaceports and Spidersilk.
Rae Carson’s next book, a sequel to Walk On Earth A Stranger, now has a title and a release date. Watch for Like A River Glorious in September 2016. Cover images coming soon.
Angraecus Daniels wants us all to know: “The editor at Misque Press found one of my short stories on my workshop shelf and requested permission to publish it. “Lost Marbles” will appear in the next issue of Misque Press’ Hero and Heroine.”
Kate Ellis’ story “Liarbird” was the grand prize winner of the 2015 Defenestrationism Short Fiction Contest, and her story “At the Sixes’ and the Sevens'” will appear in a forthcoming issue of Crossed Genres.
Gregor Hartmann wrote with great news: “Trustworthy, Loyal, Helpful” (my “uber-nerd” story), which was critiqued here last summer, has been bought by F&SF. My thanks to Tom Greene, George Allen Miller, Gene Schiappa, Allan Dyen-Shapiro, and R.M. Smythe for their close readings and thoughtful suggestions.
L.J. Kendall wants us all to know that his book Wild Thing, Vol 1 of The Leeth Dossier,is now available on Amazon. You can find it here.
Tim Major’s story “Read/Write Head” will appeart in The Museum of All Things Awesome And That Go Boom anthology from Upper Rubber Boot Books, to be published in 2016.
Clint Spivey’s story “Kara’s Ares” appeared in the December 2015 issue of Fantasy Scroll Magazine.