{"id":3553,"date":"2023-09-15T11:21:00","date_gmt":"2023-09-15T15:21:00","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.davideriknelson.com\/sbsb\/?p=3553"},"modified":"2023-09-14T16:45:51","modified_gmt":"2023-09-14T20:45:51","slug":"two-pics-two-points-new-story-new-rock","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.davideriknelson.com\/sbsb\/index.php\/2023\/09\/two-pics-two-points-new-story-new-rock\/","title":{"rendered":"Two Pics, Two Points: New Story, New Rock"},"content":{"rendered":"\n

First, as you may recall, I was nominated for a Shirley Jackson Award<\/a> this year.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

🚨SPOILER ALERT!!!<\/strong>🚨 I did not win.<\/em><\/p>\n\n\n\n

But I did learn that all of the finalists get a “token”: a nice smooth river stone, suitable for all your smoothest, roundest river stone<\/a> needs. Pictured above is mine.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

Second, on the day this came in the mail, I also got my contributor copies of the Sept\/Oct 2023 Asimov’s Science Fiction<\/em><\/a>, featuring my most recent novelette, “The Dead Letter Office.” That’s shown below. Look for your copy wherever delightful nonsense is sold. <\/p>\n\n\n\n

Asimov’s<\/em> is also running an interview with me<\/a> about writing in general, this story in particular, and my history with the magazine, who’ve been publishing my drek<\/em> for about 13 years now (my first pro sale was to Sheila Williams back in 2008, although that story didn’t see print until 2010, I guess).<\/p>\n\n\n\n

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First, as you may recall, I was nominated for a Shirley Jackson Award this year. 🚨SPOILER ALERT!!!🚨 I did not win. But I did learn that all of the finalists get a “token”: a nice smooth river stone, suitable for all your smoothest, roundest river stone needs. Pictured above is mine. Second, on the day … Continue reading “Two Pics, Two Points: New Story, New Rock”<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":3554,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_share_on_mastodon":"1"},"categories":[85,11],"tags":[909,270,46,30,856,713,904,572,940,908,557],"share_on_mastodon":{"url":"https:\/\/a2mi.social\/@dave0\/111069847675072165","error":""},"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.davideriknelson.com\/sbsb\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/3553"}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.davideriknelson.com\/sbsb\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.davideriknelson.com\/sbsb\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.davideriknelson.com\/sbsb\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.davideriknelson.com\/sbsb\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=3553"}],"version-history":[{"count":6,"href":"https:\/\/www.davideriknelson.com\/sbsb\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/3553\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":3563,"href":"https:\/\/www.davideriknelson.com\/sbsb\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/3553\/revisions\/3563"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.davideriknelson.com\/sbsb\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/3554"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.davideriknelson.com\/sbsb\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=3553"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.davideriknelson.com\/sbsb\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=3553"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.davideriknelson.com\/sbsb\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=3553"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}