Gaylactic Spectrum Award

[julesjones]

Since it seems to be the season for trolling for award nominations, I will point out the one that is probably the most relevant to my stuff -- the Gaylactic Spectrum Award. Nominations are currently open for GLBT-positive science fiction and fantasy first published in calendar year 2007. Nominations are open until 31 January, and my eligible publications are:


Novel category:
Dolphin Dreams
(Not that I think anyone who's read it is going to forget it in a hurry, but details here.)

Short fiction category:
And if I offered thee a bargain
(currently available as a free story at Forbidden Fruit.)
(ETA warning for the romance readers: romantic, but *not* genre romance.)

I'm not the only one publishing glbt-positive sf&f romance, so even if you don't want to nominate one of mine, if you read in the genre you can undoubtedly find something worthy of nomination. You can find more details about the awards and the nomination form here:
http://www.spectrumawards.org/

(This isn't *just* trolling for nominations -- in the past someone has nominated something of mine which as far as I could see wasn't actually eligible, so I'm putting up a list this year.)

Comments

[green-knight.livejournal.com]

And if I offered thee a bargain

Beautiful.

[julesjones]

Thanks. Obviously it's riffing off Irish mythology -- it came out of me thinking that the "old" stories were contemporary stories in their day, and what would one look like now...

[green-knight.livejournal.com]

It's the perfect combination of a modern person who is steeped in a modern life, and the old tales. And it's tremendously sympathetic with the Good Folk. Bittersweet. You've found exactly the right tone.

Well, apart from some scenes that would have been cut under blushes and probably were put back in late at night around the campfire...

[ruthi.livejournal.com]

I have read And if I offered thee a bargain , and I liked it.

Then, today, doing this thing where I read papersky, I found this poem, which so fits: Off With the Fairies" (http://papersky.livejournal.com/366488.html). I wanted to point you at it.

[julesjones]

Thanks. Papersky's on my daily read filter, but I missed that one -- I think it was posted when I was too busy earlier this week to read LJ.