{"id":12381,"date":"2007-12-28T17:03:20","date_gmt":"2007-12-28T22:03:20","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.scottedelman.com\/?p=12381"},"modified":"2014-01-09T23:01:35","modified_gmt":"2014-01-10T04:01:35","slug":"a-few-words-about-awards","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.scottedelman.com\/wordpress\/2007\/12\/28\/a-few-words-about-awards\/","title":{"rendered":"A few words about awards"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>A few SFWA members have e-mailed me  recently to share that they&#8217;d nominated <a href=\"http:\/\/scottedelman.livejournal.com\/616.html\" target=\"_blank\">&#8220;Almost the Last Story by Almost the Last Man&#8221;<\/a> for a Nebula Award.  As pleased I was to learn that the story was liked, according to the Nebula rules, &#8220;a work&#8217;s eligibility period begins on the first day of the month of its first publication in the United States.&#8221; Since <i>PostScripts<\/i> is a UK magazine, that story&#8217;s eligibility period won&#8217;t begin unless and until someone decides to reprint it over here.<\/p>\n<p>But that doesn&#8217;t hold true for the Stoker Awards, as HWA&#8217;s rules don&#8217;t contain a U.S. publication requirement.  On the other hand, another thing that HWA doesn&#8217;t have is the 12-month rolling eligibility period that SFWA does, which means that my story&#8217;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&#8217;d like to see a copy, raise your hand.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>A few SFWA members have e-mailed me recently to share that they&#8217;d nominated &#8220;Almost the Last Story by Almost the Last Man&#8221; for a Nebula Award. As pleased I was to learn that the story was liked, according to the Nebula rules, &#8220;a work&#8217;s eligibility period begins on the first day of the month of [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[1],"tags":[29],"class_list":["post-12381","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-uncategorized","tag-my-writing"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.scottedelman.com\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/12381","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.scottedelman.com\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.scottedelman.com\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.scottedelman.com\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.scottedelman.com\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=12381"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/www.scottedelman.com\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/12381\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":12382,"href":"https:\/\/www.scottedelman.com\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/12381\/revisions\/12382"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.scottedelman.com\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=12381"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.scottedelman.com\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=12381"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.scottedelman.com\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=12381"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}