YAY! I’m so excited. “I’m Alive, I Love You, I’ll See You in Reno” has been nominated for a Nebula Award. I’ll be in DC for the ceremony in May.

Nom nom nom!

Short Story
“Arvies”, Adam-Troy Castro (Lightspeed Magazine 8/10)
“How Interesting: A Tiny Man”, Harlan Ellison® (Realms of Fantasy 2/10)
“Ponies”, Kij Johnson (Tor.com 1/17/10)
“I’m Alive, I Love You, I’ll See You in Reno”, Vylar Kaftan (Lightspeed Magazine 6/10)
“The Green Book”, Amal El-Mohtar (Apex Magazine 11/1/10)
“Ghosts of New York”, Jennifer Pelland (Dark Faith)
“Conditional Love”, Felicity Shoulders (Asimov’s Science Fiction Magazine1/10)

Novelette
“Map of Seventeen”, Christopher Barzak (The Beastly Bride)
“The Jaguar House, in Shadow”, Aliette de Bodard (Asimov’s Science Fiction Magazine 7/10)
“The Fortuitous Meeting of Gerard van Oost and Oludara”, Christopher Kastensmidt (Realms of Fantasy 4/10)
“Plus or Minus”, James Patrick Kelly (Asimov’s Science Fiction Magazine12/10)
“Pishaach”, Shweta Narayan (The Beastly Bride)
“That Leviathan, Whom Thou Hast Made”, Eric James Stone (Analog Science Fiction and Fact 9/10)
“Stone Wall Truth”, Caroline M. Yoachim (Asimov’s Science Fiction Magazine 2/10)

Novella
The Alchemist, Paolo Bacigalupi (Audible; Subterranean)
“Iron Shoes”, J. Kathleen Cheney (Alembical 2)
The Lifecycle of Software Objects, Ted Chiang (Subterranean)
“The Sultan of the Clouds”, Geoffrey A. Landis (Asimov’s Science Fiction Magazine 9/10)
“Ghosts Doing the Orange Dance”, Paul Park (The Magazine of Fantasy and Science Fiction 1-2/10)
“The Lady Who Plucked Red Flowers beneath the Queen’s Window”, Rachel Swirsky (Subterranean Magazine Summer ’10)

Novel
The Native Star, M.K. Hobson (Spectra)
The Hundred Thousand Kingdoms, N.K. Jemisin (Orbit UK; Orbit US)
Shades of Milk and Honey, Mary Robinette Kowal (Tor)
Echo, Jack McDevitt (Ace)
Who Fears Death, Nnedi Okorafor (DAW)
Blackout/All Clear, Connie Willis (Spectra)

The Ray Bradbury Award for Outstanding Dramatic Presentation
Despicable Me, Pierre Coffin & Chris Renaud (directors), Ken Daurio & Cinco Paul (screenplay), Sergio Pablos (story) (Illumination Entertainment)
Doctor Who: “Vincent and the Doctor”, Richard Curtis (writer), Jonny Campbell (director)
How to Train Your Dragon, Dean DeBlois & Chris Sanders (directors), William Davies, Dean DeBlois, & Chris Sanders (screenplay) (DreamWorks Animation)
Inception, Christopher Nolan (director), Christopher Nolan (screenplay) (Warner)
Scott Pilgrim vs. the World, Edgar Wright (director), Michael Bacall & Edgar Wright (screenplay) (Universal)
Toy Story 3, Lee Unkrich (director), Michael Arndt (screenplay), John Lasseter, Andrew Stanton, & Lee Unkrich (story) (Pixar/Disney)

Andre Norton Award for Young Adult Science Fiction and Fantasy
Ship Breaker, Paolo Bacigalupi (Little, Brown)
White Cat, Holly Black (McElderry)
Mockingjay, Suzanne Collins (Scholastic Press; Scholastic UK)
Hereville: How Mirka Got Her Sword, Barry Deutsch (Amulet)
The Boy from Ilysies, Pearl North (Tor Teen)
I Shall Wear Midnight, Terry Pratchett (Gollancz; Harper)
A Conspiracy of Kings, Megan Whalen Turner (Greenwillow)
Behemoth, Scott Westerfeld (Simon Pulse; Simon & Schuster UK)

You can view the FOGcon programming online. Choose the Programming tab to see Friday, Saturday, and Sunday events.

A few more events will be added when we confirm them, and there’s still a few corrections to the panelist lists, but this is mostly accurate.

Of all the things I think FOGcon is doing well–which is a lot!–I’m exceptionally pleased with the programming. We have some great panels here, with strong panelists. Check out what we’re doing!

The deadline for Nebula nominations is tomorrow. If anyone is sending their nominations in last-minute, I hope you’ll consider my short story I’m Alive, I Love You, I’ll See You in Reno. Lightspeed, June 2010.

(Apparently 50% of nominations arrive in the last 48 hours before deadline. So if you’ve procrastinated, you’re in good company!)

Lightspeed Magazine is holding a poll for Best Story of 2010. You can vote here for your three favorites.

If you leave comments on the stories during the month of February, you’ll be entered into a drawing for a $50 Amazon gift certificate.

I hope you’ll consider I’m Alive, I Love You, I’ll See You in Reno, along with the other fine stories of Lightspeed. I particularly liked Amaryllis by Carrie Vaughn, and Hwang’s Billion Brilliant Daughters by Alice Sola Kim. Happy reading!

FOGcon program book cover by the ever-talented and lovely Vito Excalibur. I love it!

ETA: DAMMIT I hate when I copy/paste and don’t notice the copy failed, so I post the last string I had copied… like a pair of lovers’ mittens which I was laughing about. But they were cute, weren’t they? 🙂

I fly out to Arisia tomorrow. I’ve got two panels: Taboos in Fiction (Friday at 5 PM) and Imagining Anarchy (Friday at 6:30 PM). I have a reading on Saturday at 11 PM. I’ll be teaching Writing the Other, along with Nisi Shawl, on Sunday at 11 AM. And I’ll be attending the Arisia corporate meeting to talk about FOGcon, and I think that meeting is Sunday at 5 PM. So that’s my schedule. Phew!

Mind-Diver is published at Abyss & Apex. Dive into someone’s mind and take a nice swim! Try not to drown while you’re healing them.

Also, Christmas Wedding was podcast at Escape Pod last week, if you’re not too burned out on holiday things. And if you _are_ burned out on Christmas, there’s a nice apocalypse and some brain damage to keep you busy.

…Shannon and I eloped at City Hall.

Happy What-The-Hell Day, sweetie.

Time Wise addresses the question of guilt versus responsibility in this short video. He’s answering the question, “As a white male, should I feel guilty for the sins of my fathers?”

I thought his answer was wonderful. The short version: No, but you should feel angry and do something about how unfair our society is.

It’s only about two minutes long, and it’s worth hearing.

Surprise, I’m going to Arisia!

I’m going so I can promote FOGcon and attend the business meeting where they discuss our grant proposal. (Arisia offers grants, and we’ve applied for one to help start FOGcon.)

Who will I see there?