Spectrum Awards - nominations close April 30

[julesjones]

Note from Rob Gates of the Spectrum Awards. Yes, obviously I have a vested interest in this and would be deliriously happy if you all rushed out and nominated my stuff. :-) But *I'd* forgotten that the closing date was fast approaching and I can probably think of queer-friendly speculative fiction I'd like to nominate, and I'll bet the same is true of some of my flist.

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Greetings Everyone,

Our nominations deadline for the 2006 Gaylactic Spectrum Awards is fast
approaching. If you read, saw, published, wrote, etc a work of speculative
fiction released during 2005 that had positive GLBT content, please drop by
the Gaylactic Spectrum Awards website and submit a nomination. Our judges
do a great job reviewing and discussing nominees and coming up with
fantastic winners - but if we don;t hear about a work we can't consider it!

Visit http://www.spectrumawards.org/

Pleased also feel free and encouraged to distribute this call for
nominations to any individual or list where there may be folks with input
for our nominations list.

Cheers,

Rob Gates
Gaylactic Spectrum Awards

Comments

[tharain.livejournal.com]

Guess I'd have to publish first, huh. Damn.

[jjsass.livejournal.com]

I'll nominate yours if you nominate mine, lol.
The Syndicate? Or another one??
Let me know!

[julesjones]

Has to be stuff published in 2005, which in my case is Spindrift, Spindrift 2: Ship to Shore, Buildup 1: Mindscan, First Footer, The Syndicate: Four Leaf Clover (although I will be the first to admit that the last is a piece of fluff which nobody is going to take seriously:-). What's your list?

They do say you can nominate your own stuff. I can guess why they're happy with that - it's a juried rather than an open voting award, and if they don't know about it they can't consider it. Still makes me feel slightly weird nominating my own things.