{"id":23005,"date":"2017-01-20T08:22:43","date_gmt":"2017-01-20T13:22:43","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.scottedelman.com\/?p=23005"},"modified":"2017-01-20T16:05:11","modified_gmt":"2017-01-20T21:05:11","slug":"look-who-made-the-bram-stoker-awards-preliminary-ballot","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.scottedelman.com\/wordpress\/2017\/01\/20\/look-who-made-the-bram-stoker-awards-preliminary-ballot\/","title":{"rendered":"Look who made the Bram Stoker Awards Preliminary Ballot!"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>I woke this morning to a press release from the Horror Writers Association announcing the 2016 Bram Stoker Awards Preliminary Ballot&#8212;and look who appears in the category of Superior Achievement in Long Fiction&#8212;<\/p>\n<p>Me!<\/p>\n<p><a href=\"https:\/\/www.scottedelman.com\/wordpress\/wp-content\/uploads\/2017\/01\/BramStokerAwardsLogo.jpg\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" src=\"https:\/\/www.scottedelman.com\/wordpress\/wp-content\/uploads\/2017\/01\/BramStokerAwardsLogo-300x155.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"300\" height=\"155\" class=\"aligncenter size-medium wp-image-23006\" srcset=\"https:\/\/www.scottedelman.com\/wordpress\/wp-content\/uploads\/2017\/01\/BramStokerAwardsLogo-300x155.jpg 300w, https:\/\/www.scottedelman.com\/wordpress\/wp-content\/uploads\/2017\/01\/BramStokerAwardsLogo.jpg 506w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 300px) 100vw, 300px\" \/><\/a><\/p>\n<blockquote><p>Anderson, Paul Michael \u2013 <em>Bones Are Made to be Broken<\/em> (Bones Are Made to be Broken) (Written Backwards)<\/p>\n<p>Boden, John \u2013 <em>Jedi Summer with the Magnetic Kid<\/em> (Post Mortem Press)<\/p>\n<p>Cushing, Aric \u2013 <em>Vampire Boy<\/em> (Grand &#038; Archer)<\/p>\n<p>Cushing, Nicole \u2013 <em>The Sadist\u2019s Bible<\/em> (01Publishing)<\/p>\n<p>Drinkwater, Karl \u2013 <em>Harvest Festival<\/em> (Organic Apocalypse)<\/p>\n<p><strong>Edelman, Scott \u2013 <em>That Perilous Stuff<\/em> (Chiral Mad 3) (Written Backwards)<\/strong><\/p>\n<p>LaValle, Victor \u2013 <em>The Ballad of Black Tom<\/em> (Tor.com)<\/p>\n<p>Malerman, Josh \u2013 <em>The Jupiter Drop<\/em> (You, Human) (Written Backwards)<\/p>\n<p>Matthews, Mark \u2013 <em>All Smoke Rises: Milk-Blood Redux<\/em> (Wicked Run Press)<\/p>\n<p>Shane, Simmons \u2013 <em>Raw<\/em> (Silent Screams: An Anthology of Socially Conscious Dark Fiction) (Serpent &#038; Dove Speculative Fiction)<\/p>\n<p>Waggoner, Tim \u2013 <em>The Winter Box<\/em> (Darkfuse)<\/p><\/blockquote>\n<p>You can find the full preliminary ballot <a href=\"http:\/\/horror.org\/2016-bram-stoker-awards-preliminary-ballot-announced\/\">here<\/a>.<\/p>\n<p>Please note that this does <em>not<\/em> make me a Bram Stoker Award nominee or finalist&#8212;those will be determined by members of the HWA voting from February 1 through 15, and the lucky few who make the final ballot will be announced on February 23. But hey, I&#8217;m thrilled to have gotten <em>this<\/em> far!<\/p>\n<p>If you&#8217;re a voting member of the HWA, and would like to receive a copy of my story to consider as you make your final decisions, please <a href=\"http:\/\/www.scottedelman.com\/contact-scott\/\">let me know<\/a> and I&#8217;ll send one off right away.<\/p>\n<p>And whatever happens next, I hope to see you at <a href=\"http:\/\/stokercon2017.horror.org\">Stokercon<\/a>!<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>I woke this morning to a press release from the Horror Writers Association announcing the 2016 Bram Stoker Awards Preliminary Ballot&#8212;and look who appears in the category of Superior Achievement in Long Fiction&#8212; Me! Anderson, Paul Michael \u2013 Bones Are Made to be Broken (Bones Are Made to be Broken) (Written Backwards) Boden, John \u2013 [&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":[29,30],"class_list":["post-23005","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-uncategorized","tag-my-writing","tag-stoker-awards"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.scottedelman.com\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/23005","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=23005"}],"version-history":[{"count":5,"href":"https:\/\/www.scottedelman.com\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/23005\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":23025,"href":"https:\/\/www.scottedelman.com\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/23005\/revisions\/23025"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.scottedelman.com\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=23005"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.scottedelman.com\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=23005"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.scottedelman.com\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=23005"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}