{"id":12544,"date":"2008-02-10T08:13:21","date_gmt":"2008-02-10T13:13:21","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.scottedelman.com\/?p=12544"},"modified":"2014-01-13T16:31:21","modified_gmt":"2014-01-13T21:31:21","slug":"last-chance-to-vote-on-the-preliminary-stoker-ballot","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.scottedelman.com\/wordpress\/2008\/02\/10\/last-chance-to-vote-on-the-preliminary-stoker-ballot\/","title":{"rendered":"Last chance to vote on the preliminary Stoker ballot"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>As I <a href=\"http:\/\/www.scottedelman.com\/2008\/01\/23\/bram-stoker-awards-preliminary-ballot\/\">mentioned here earlier<\/a>, two of my stories are on the preliminary ballot for the Bram Stoker Awards, given out each year by the Horror Writers Association.  Voting is still going on to determine the nominated stories which will make up the final ballot.<\/p>\n<p>This is just a gratuitous, self-serving reminder to all Active Members that their votes must be received by 11:59 p.m. today, which means that fewer than 16 hours remain.  <\/p>\n<p>My two stories appearing among the final twelve recommended in the category of  Superior Achievement in Long Fiction are:<\/p>\n<blockquote><p>&#8220;Almost the Last Story by Almost the Last Man&#8221;  (originally published in <i>Postscripts<\/i>)<br \/>\n&#8220;Survival of the Fittest&#8221; (originally published in <i>Summer Chills<\/i>)<\/p><\/blockquote>\n<p>If there are any voting members out there who haven&#8217;t yet made up their minds and would like to receive electronic copies of my stories for review during these final hours, please let me know.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>As I mentioned here earlier, two of my stories are on the preliminary ballot for the Bram Stoker Awards, given out each year by the Horror Writers Association. Voting is still going on to determine the nominated stories which will make up the final ballot. This is just a gratuitous, self-serving reminder to all Active [&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-12544","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\/12544","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=12544"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/www.scottedelman.com\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/12544\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":12545,"href":"https:\/\/www.scottedelman.com\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/12544\/revisions\/12545"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.scottedelman.com\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=12544"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.scottedelman.com\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=12544"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.scottedelman.com\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=12544"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}