A few SFWA members have e-mailed me recently to share that they’d nominated “Almost the Last Story by Almost the Last Man” for a Nebula Award. As pleased I was to learn that the story was liked, according to the Nebula rules, “a work’s eligibility period begins on the first day of the month of its first publication in the United States.” Since PostScripts is a UK magazine, that story’s eligibility period won’t begin unless and until someone decides to reprint it over here.

But that doesn’t hold true for the Stoker Awards, as HWA’s rules don’t contain a U.S. publication requirement. On the other hand, another thing that HWA doesn’t have is the 12-month rolling eligibility period that SFWA does, which means that my story’s eligibility will shortly run out, always a problem for those pieces which appear late in the year. So if there are any HWA members out there who’d like to see a copy, raise your hand.