{"id":21901,"date":"2016-05-17T22:40:58","date_gmt":"2016-05-18T02:40:58","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.scottedelman.com\/?p=21901"},"modified":"2016-05-17T22:47:14","modified_gmt":"2016-05-18T02:47:14","slug":"how-i-won-at-saturdays-stoker-awards-banquet","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.scottedelman.com\/wordpress\/2016\/05\/17\/how-i-won-at-saturdays-stoker-awards-banquet\/","title":{"rendered":"How I won at Saturday’s Stoker Awards banquet"},"content":{"rendered":"

Remember when I told you I’d been honored with a sixth Stoker Award nomination<\/a>, and that whatever ended up happening, win or lose, I’d win?<\/p>\n

Well, I did win Saturday.<\/p>\n

No, not that way. The other way.<\/p>\n

\"ScottEdelmanStokerLoser\"<\/a><\/p>\n

The trophy for Superior Achievement in Long Fiction was taken home by co-finalist Mercedes Yardley, with whom I got into a brawl when I’d spotted her inside a candy store earlier that afternoon.<\/p>\n

\"MercedesYardleyScottEdelman\"<\/a><\/p>\n

But I’m fine with that—because as you can see by this screen grab from Locus<\/em><\/a>, I’m now tied for the most nominations without a win.<\/p>\n

\"StokerNeverWinnersLocus\"<\/a><\/p>\n

Top of the world, Ma!<\/p>\n

Besides, if you’d been in my skin as I wandered The Flamingo Hotel and then the banquet in my D\u00eda de Muertos suit, you’d know I felt too glorious for anything to ever bring me down.<\/p>\n

\"ScottSkullSuit\"<\/a><\/p>\n

A night among peers whom I respect and friends who are more like family? Nothing can beat that.<\/p>\n

It truly is an honor to be nominated. Those are more than just words.<\/p>\n

In fact, I’m hoping I can someday get nominated again—for one of my stories published this year or one, more likely, which will see print further down the road—so that when I lose I can become the only person in Stoker Awards history to rock a record of 7-0.<\/p>\n

I can dream, can’t I?<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

Remember when I told you I’d been honored with a sixth Stoker Award nomination, and that whatever ended up happening, win or lose, I’d win? Well, I did win Saturday. No, not that way. The other way. The trophy for Superior Achievement in Long Fiction was taken home by co-finalist Mercedes Yardley, with whom I […]<\/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":[67,29,30,744],"class_list":["post-21901","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-uncategorized","tag-horror","tag-my-writing","tag-stoker-awards","tag-stokercon"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.scottedelman.com\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/21901","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=21901"}],"version-history":[{"count":5,"href":"https:\/\/www.scottedelman.com\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/21901\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":21915,"href":"https:\/\/www.scottedelman.com\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/21901\/revisions\/21915"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.scottedelman.com\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=21901"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.scottedelman.com\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=21901"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.scottedelman.com\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=21901"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}