#Andre Norton Award

[moniquill]

To Shape a Dragon’s Breath has been nominated for the 2024 Andre Norton Nebula Award for Middle Grade and Young Adult Fiction!

[constantvariations]

Been listening to the rwby books. After the Fall wasn't too terrible, but jesus fuck Before the Dawn is a lesson in frustration. What is Myers' beef with Sun and why was it allowed to assassinate his character?

[ktempestbradford]

20 years ago at Clarion West my submission story was one of the first we critiqued. Our instructor Nancy Kress advised that I not use the pen name I was currently going by (Finley Larkin - a combo of family names).

She said something like: Don't use a name you wouldn't want etched into a Nebula Award.

At the time thought: If I win a Nebula, I won't care what name they put on it because I'll be a Nebula winner!

Well. Here we are today and there's a Nebula with my name on it! 😍

I'll acknowledge that Nancy was correct in her overall advice. The name one writes under is important and one you want to be sure you want to be known by forever, if you get that lucky.

(she also advised the women in the room to write under their maiden name if they were or would get married just in case you ended up stuck with the name of someone you later wish you weren't associated with....)

I'm glad I switched to the name people had been calling me for years, Tempest, because it's the name that suits the me I've become.

Still, I had to get Finley in there somehow!

[atendencytotangle]

Book Review: To Shape a Dragon's Breath by Moniquill Blackgoose

To Shape a Dragon’s Breath by Moniquill Blackgoose (published in 2023 by Del Rey) is the first book of the Nampeshiweisit. It has been nominated for the Libby Award for Best Fantasy (2023), the Andre Norton Award (2024), the Lodestar Award for Best YA Book (2024), and Moniquill Blackgoose has been nominated for the Astounding Award for Best New Writer (2024). And the hype is real. To Shape a…

[thehorrortree]

Deadline: April 30th, 2024 Prizes: The GRAND PRIZE winner will be published as the featured story on the Baen Books main website and paid at industry-standard rates for professional story submittals. The author will also receive a handsome engraved award and a prize package containing $500 of free Baen Books. SECOND place winner will receive a prize package containing $500 of free Baen Books. THIRD place winner will receive a prize package containing $300 of free Baen Books. Theme: Any form of fantasy Baen Books is excited to announce the eleventh annual Baen Fantasy Adventure Award. The award recognizes the best original adventure fantasy short story in the style of fantasy greats like Mercedes Lackey, Larry Correia, Jim Butcher, Charlaine Harris, Elizabeth Moon, Andre Norton, Brandon Sanderson, J.R.R. Tolkien, and David Weber. Contest Rules Write and submit a short story of no more than 8,000 words. It must be a work of fantasy, though all fantasy genres are open, e.g. epic fantasy, heroic fantasy, sword and sorcery, contemporary fantasy, etc. No entry fee. But only one submission per person...we suggest your best one! No reprints (i.e. the story must be unpublished). All entries must be original unpublished works in English. Plagiarism, poetry, song lyrics, settings and/or characters from published gaming worlds or another author’s works of fiction will not be considered. Any AI-generated stories will be automatically disqualified. E-mail submissions only. Send entries as .RTF attachments to: baenfantasyaward@baen.com Please put BFAA SUBMISSION in the subject line when sending a contest entry and BFAA QUESTION in the subject line for questions to the contest administrator. Please include the following in the body of your email: the title of the work the author's name, address, and telephone number an approximate word-count The manuscript should be a RTF attachment, in standard manuscript format, and should be titled and numbered on every page, but the author's name MUST BE DELETED to facilitate fair judging. Click here for our standard manuscript format guidelines. Employees of Baen Books and Staff of Dragon Con are not eligible. Previous Grand Prize winners are not eligible (previous second and third place winners are eligible). Contest opens for submissions on January 15th, 2024 at 12:01am EST. (Entries sent before that date will be deleted unread.) Contest closes for submissions April 30th, 2024 at 11:59pm EDT. What We Want to See Adventure fantasy with heroes you want to root for. Warriors either modern or medieval, who solve problems with their wits or with their weapons—and we have nothing against dragons, elves, dwarves, castles under siege, urban fantasy, damsels in distress, or damsels who inflict distress. What We Don’t Want to See Political drama with no action, angst-ridden teens pining over vampire lovers, religious allegory, novel segments, your gaming adventure transcript, anything set in any universe not your own, "it was all a dream" endings, or screenplays. Judges Entries will be judged by Baen editorial staff. Prizes The GRAND PRIZE winner will be published as the featured story on the Baen Books main website and paid at industry-standard rates for professional story submittals. The author will also receive a handsome engraved award and a prize package containing $500 of free Baen Books. SECOND place winner will receive a prize package containing $500 of free Baen Books. THIRD place winner will receive a prize package containing $300 of free Baen Books. Finalists will be announced no later than July 1st, 2024 Winners will be notified no later than July 21st, 2024. (Only the winners will be notified.) The winners will be officially announced during the Baen Traveling Roadshow at Dragon Con, in Atlanta, Georgia. (We would prefer the winners attend the convention, but it is not required.) Submission Checklist All identifying information (author's name, address, email) has been removed from the manuscript and manuscript file name.

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[jhezenkoss]

Hi margot do you have a list you'd share of the Hugo and nebula women? This is so in my vein and I've been feeling the itch to read more sf again also I hope you enjoy the female man I thought it was a fun whirlwind

Here: https://docs.google.com/spreadsheets/d/1JgcIyXqcOJbAqMjXKEsGgTRCRBGm6ksCInb6nqFdeao/edit#gid=0

I'm expanding this to women and nonbinary authors, which was less of a concern when I was just doing pre-1980 books, but a few more these days.

Authors with an asterisk next to their name means they won the award for that year.

For the 50s-80s I actually checked every author, since a few (like Andre Norton) used pseudonyms. For the 90s on, I got lazy and mostly just assumed gender based on first name (I know, I know) and only checked ambiguous ones. May or may not be entirely accurate, and there might be a few I have or have not deleted that should be. But it's probably most of them.

Nonbinary authors I am aware of: Caitlín R. Kiernan, Annalee Newitz, Shelley Parker-Chan, and C.L. Polk. And there may be more! I admittedly was not being super thorough.

I removed Yoon Ha Lee, who is the only trans man I know of who's been nominated, but I do love his books so I want to give a shoutout here to the Machineries of Empire series anyway.

Charlie Jane Anders, Rachel Pollack, and Ryka Aoki are the trans woman I'm aware of on the list, though again, there may be more.

The second tab has all winners/nominees, including for a few other awards. (I did delete one entry for association with the Sad Puppies nonsense.)

Also if you have trouble finding any of the books, let me know and I can probably help! I've managed to track most of the older ones down. (I've had good luck with archive.org and libgen for the long out of print.)

[sistahscifi]

The SFWA (Science Fiction & Fantasy Writers Association) awarded K Tempest Bradford a Andre Norton Nebula Award for Middle Grade and Young Adult Fiction for Ruby Finley vs the Interstellar Invasion last Saturday!!

Watch Tempest's AMAZINGLY brilliant acceptance speech here:

https://sistahscifi.us20.list-manage.com/track/click?u=830a610cd0c7df797e5929db2&id=cfc2b3d31a&e=05a8907b2d. Watch to the end for the shoutout to @NisiShawl.

You can get your copy of Ruby Finley at @SistahScifi | www.sistahscifi.com or your local #library!

Please join is in congratulating Tempest on the big win!!

Reposted @ktempestbradford Ruby Finley is an:

👧🏾 11 year old

✊🏽 Black girl

🔬 Science genius

🐞 who loves bugs

🕵🏽‍♀️ and gets caught up in a neighborhood mystery

Can she solve it using the scientific method? Find out in Ruby Finley vs the Interstellar Invasion! 👉🏾 Lynk in Baio

____________

#middlegradebooks #middlegrade #middlegradefiction #sciencefiction #stem #SheCanSTEM #mystery #ownvoices #blackgirlmagic #SistahScifi #RubyFinleyvstheInterstellarInvasion! #KTEMPESTBradford

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[denimbex1986]

'Paul Mescal has revealed the "blind panic" he felt before filming All Of Us Strangers alongside co-star and fellow Irishman Andrew Scott.

The Kildare native, 27, stars in the romantic fantasy drama, directed by Andre Haigh, which sees he and Scott play neighbours who strike up a relationship.

Reflecting on his preparation for the Bafta-nominated film, the Normal People star told reporters at the London premiere: "A lot of preparation was thought preparation, thinking about the character, all the basic things and then the blind panic the night before you start filming, hoping you're going to live up to the standard of the script, which is one of the most beautiful scripts that I've ever read.

"And then the work becomes a hell of a lot easier when you're working with actors like Andrew [Scott] and directors like Andrew Haigh."

Mescal, from Maynooth, received a Bafta nod for supporting actor last Thursday for All Of Us Strangers, after last year being nominated at the awards show for best actor for Aftersun.

The film, which also looks into the grief of Scott’s character losing his parents, was nominated for a total of six Baftas, which also includes best director for Looking series writer Haigh and outstanding British film.

The film star previously said that having his family watch his and Scott's sex scenes in the cinema will be a difficult prospect to navigate.

Mescal, known also for his intimate scenes in romantic drama series Normal People, told BBC One’s The Graham Norton Show last Friday: “With the Irish premiere, trying to allocate tickets to all the aunties and uncles is a tricky business.

“They have seen my bum before but there is a little more going on in this movie I would say.”

While his co-star Scott, also known for Sherlock and Fleabag, said: “I don’t want to be there when my parents watch it.”'

[hollymbryan]

Blog Tour Spotlight: THE LIBRARY OF BROKEN WORLDS by Alaya Dawn Johnson (w/ #giveaway)!

Welcome to Book-Keeping and my stop on the Rockstar Book Tours blog tour for The Library of Broken Worlds by Alaya Dawn Johnson! I’ve got all the book and author details, plus an excerpt, for you below; there’s also a giveaway so be sure to read to the end!

About the Book

title: The Library of Broken Worlds author: Alaya Dawn Johnson publisher: Scholastic Press release date: 6 June 2023

A girl matches wits with a war god in this kaleidoscopic, thought-provoking tale of oppression and the cost of peace, where stories hide within other stories, and narrative has the power to heal -- or to burn everything in its path -- from World Fantasy Award–winning author Alaya Dawn Johnson.

A girl and a god, alone in communion...

In the winding underground tunnels of the Library, the great peacekeeper of the three systems, a heinous secret lies buried -- and Freida is the only one who can uncover it. As the daughter of a Library god, Freida has spent her whole life exploring the Library's ever-changing tunnels and communing with the gods. Her unparalleled access makes her unique -- and dangerous.

When Freida meets Joshua, a Tierran boy desperate to save his people, and Nergüi, a disciple from a persecuted religious minority, Freida is compelled to help them. But in order to do so, she will have to venture deeper into the Library than she has ever known. There she will discover the atrocities of the past, the truth of her origins, and the impossibility of her future.

With the world at the brink of war, Freida embarks on a journey to fulfill her destiny, one that pits her against an ancient war god. Her mission is straightforward: Destroy the god before he can rain hellfire upon thousands of innocent lives -- if he doesn't destroy her first.

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About the Author

Alaya Dawn Johnson is an award-winning short story writer and the author of seven novels for adults and young adults. Her most recent novel for adults, Trouble the Saints, won the 2021 World Fantasy Award for best novel. Her debut short story collection, Reconstruction, was an Ignyte Award and a Hurston/Wright Legacy Award finalist. Her debut YA novel The Summer Prince was longlisted for the National Book Award for Young People's Literature, and the follow-up Love Is the Drug was awarded the Andre Norton Nebula Award. Her short stories have appeared in many magazines and anthologies, most notably the title story in The Memory Librarian, in collaboration with Janelle Monáe. She lives in Oaxaca, Mexico. 

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Excerpt

By the time Samlin left me three weeks later, I felt like a blindfolded animal: confused, disoriented, ready to bite. I cried for days and sent him increasingly desperate messages until I realized he would never respond to me again. Nadi told me I’d forget about him, that everyone had to fall in love for the first time, that it would get better. I wanted to believe zir. But I was shivering, growing into ice, drifting into an empty sea. I didn’t know how to say what I was feeling. I hardly knew how to feel it.

Nadi had little time for me in those days. Ze was sequestered at a diplomatic round table with the Mahām leadership to address recent protests about their Treaty-condemned occupation of the Miuri moon. I didn’t push. The thought of telling Nadi precisely what had happened or not happened in that nanodrop made my guts twist like wet rope and my head fill with cotton. Better Iemaja, I decided. Better a god who barely understands the minutiae of human affairs and only speaks in communion.

I walked inside her because I had seen myself in Samlin’s deep eyes and hated that reflection. Freida the sweet. Freida the beautiful. Freida, once an excellent find but now inconvenient, twitchy, withdrawn, and desperate. I was beginning to see myself as they did, all those who stared and stared and saw nothing behind my eyes but a dark mirror. What was my heart, what were my bones, what were my constellations of synapses firing, lighting up my soul? Nadi insisted I was human, but even so, I had been left to freeze out in the ocean because no one thought I was worth any more. I was afraid, Nameren, so very afraid that they were right.

I had begun in Kohru, the artery of childhood and discovery and, in some ways, rebellion. But I was now in unknown capillaries. Some passages were so narrow that I had to get on my belly to pass through, the stone warm against my exposed skin. Sometimes the crystal would crack and water would bubble through the seams and I would slurp it down. It tasted of moonlight and copal and stillness. I told Iemaja that I loved her. The water then bubbled with her laughter and tasted of rose petals. It grew thick and slow with sugar. I lay in that soft, sticky womb for a while. The sweetness had been made to balance the salt of my tears. She is kind like that, Iemaja.

I told her about Samlin. I told her how helpless he had made me feel, not in my body, which he’d left untouched, but in my spirit. My tongue was heavy, as though it belonged to someone else. But still I spoke, until I reached the end.

Excerpted from The Library of Broken Worlds by Alaya Dawn Johnson, Copyright © 2023 by Alaya Dawn Johnson. Published by Scholastic Press

About the Giveaway

One (1) lucky winner will receive a finished copy of The Library of Broken Worlds by Alaya Dawn Johnson! This one is US only and ends 19 June 2023. Enter via the Rafflecopter below, and good luck!

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About the Tour

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Week Two:

5/28/2023 - celiamcmaahonreads - IG Review 5/29/2023 - thealylifestyle - Review/IG Post 5/30/2023 - travelersguidetobooks - IG Review 5/31/2023 - Jaime_of_gryffindor - Review/IG Post 6/1/2023 - @get.outside.and.read - IG Post 6/2/2023 - Book-Keeping - Spotlight/IG Post      **you are here! 6/3/2023 - More Books Please blog - Review/IG Post

[moniquill]

Hi, hello. I am a traditionally published author. I'm represented by https://prentisliterary.com/ , who secured a deal with Del Rey press, a subsidiary of Penguin Books. One of The Big Five.

I won a Nebula and an Andre Norton award for this book.

Which is traditionally published.

I have also been an Actual Poor Person(tm) for most of my life - qualified for SNAP, didn't own a car until I was in my 20's, didn't own a decent car (doesn't need work every month, all the fluids stay where they're supposed to, etc) until I was in my 30's. Went into debt for college and hold a degree that has nothing to do with either writing OR my current day job.

I currently work 40 hours a week at a job wholly unrelated to writing, at which I make ~$20/hr. I live in a state where Cost of Living is 13% higher than national average. I would not consider myself actual poor now, at age 41. I'm comfortably lower-middle: I generally have a little bit of extra money at the end of the month to put in savings, I can occasionally splurge on bougie groceries, an abrupt $1000.00 emergency wouldn't make me homeless but WOULD require me to dip into savings. I have to plan for months in advance for things like hotel rooms and airline tickets.

Your assertion that 'traditional publishing only publishes affluent writers' is false.

The 'rags to ritches' thing is in fact a fake-ass premise, but it has nothing to do with publication. Getting a publication deal as a poor person is much more realistically 'rags to nicer rags, and also people read your work'

Your take is, essentially, doomerism.

woop there it is

[emwigstersbookshelf]

Author Spotlight: Interview with Sarah Beth Durst

All about the romantasy debut The Spellshop Who is Sarah Beth Durst? Sarah Beth Durst is the award-winning author of over twenty-five books for adults, teens, and kids, including The Spellshop, The Lake House, and Spark. She won an American Library Association Alex Award and a Mythopoeic Fantasy Award and has been a finalist for SFWA’s Andre Norton Nebula Award three times. Several of her books…

[moniquill]

Andre Norton Nebula Award for Middle Grade and Young Adult FictionTo Shape a Dragon’s Breath, Moniquill Blackgoose (Del Rey)

[ktempestbradford]

In my acceptance speech I talked about the importance of healthy communities and how that shaped the worldbuilding in Ruby Finley vs the Interstellar Invasion.

Community is fundamental for humans. Story is fundamental for humans.

[alexseanchai]

you can't hack a 110K work into three chunks and get three works that each individually fall into the word count bucket that the Nebula awards says is novels. cannot do it. not without adding 10K+ words to the total, because a work has to be at least forty thousand words to go in the novel bucket in the Nebulas.

and novella trilogies and solo novels, even when they are in the same genre and have the same total word count, have entirely different structures! for reasons including the same reason you wouldn't look at a single mountain peak and call it several hills!

here's Wikipedia on word count:

In fiction Novelist Jane Smiley suggests that length is an important quality of the novel.[2] However, novels can vary tremendously in length; Smiley lists novels as typically being between 100,000 and 175,000 words,[3] while National Novel Writing Month requires its novels to be at least 50,000 words. There are no firm rules: for example, the boundary between a novella and a novel is arbitrary and a literary work may be difficult to categorise.[4] But while the length of a novel is to a large extent up to its writer,[5] lengths may also vary by subgenre; many chapter books for children start at a length of about 16,000 words,[6] and a typical mystery novel might be in the 60,000 to 80,000 word range while a thriller could be well over 100,000 words.[7] The Science Fiction and Fantasy Writers of America specifies word lengths for each category of its Nebula Award categories:[8] Classification Word count Novel 40,000 words or over Novella 17,500 to 39,999 words Novelette 7,500 to 17,499 words Short story up to 7,500 words

citation 8:

and an essay on prose fiction structure vis-a-vis story length:

i will never complain about a book seeming like a fanfic with the serial numbers filed off because that means the author had the invaluable ability to tell when their au had diverged enough that these were just straight-up different characters now

[prologusblog]

Borítómánia: Varázslókalauz ​önvédelmi sütéshez

Végre nálunk is megjelent magyarul a többszörösen díjnyertes (Locus Award: Best Young Adult Book (2021), Mythopoeic Fantasy Award for Children’s Literature (2021), Andre Norton Award (2020), Lodestar Award (2021) ) Varázslókalauz ​önvédelmi sütéshez című regény T. Kingfisher tollából. Én már neki is láttam az olvasásnak és már az első néhány fejezet után érzem, hogy egy nagyon jó kis könyv elé…

[brookston]

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Footloose (Film; 1984)

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Hey, Hey, It’s the Monkees (TV Special; 1997)

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Jerry, Jerry, Quite Contrary (Tom & Jerry Cartoon; 1966)

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Hebrew: 8 Adair I 5784

Islamic: 7 Sha’ban 1445

J Cal: 18 Grey; Foursday [18 of 30]

Julian: 4 February 2024

Moon: 63%: Waxing Gibbous

Positivist: 20 Homer (2nd Month) [Lucian]

Runic Half Month: Sigel (Sun) [Day 9 of 15]

Season: Winter (Day 59 of 89)

Week: 2nd Week of February

Zodiac: Capricorn (Day 27 of 28)