{"id":2586,"date":"2011-04-14T23:09:32","date_gmt":"2011-04-15T03:09:32","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.scottedelman.com\/?p=2586"},"modified":"2011-04-14T23:09:32","modified_gmt":"2011-04-15T03:09:32","slug":"what-will-come-after-is-a-2010-shirley-jackson-award-nominee","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.scottedelman.com\/wordpress\/2011\/04\/14\/what-will-come-after-is-a-2010-shirley-jackson-award-nominee\/","title":{"rendered":"What Will Come After is a 2010 Shirley Jackson Award nominee!"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>I&#8217;ve been biting my tongue since Monday because the Shirley Jackson Awards committee wanted to keep the news secret until<a href=\"http:\/\/www.shirleyjacksonawards.org\/sja_2010_nominees.php\"> its site<\/a> could be updated, but I can now reveal here that my short story collection <a href=\"http:\/\/www.scottedelman.com\/writing\/books\/what-will-come-after\/\"><em>What Will Come After<\/em><\/a> is a nominee in the category of Single-Author Collection.<\/p>\n<p>Since you can easily find the full ballot elsewhere, I won&#8217;t repeat the list, but here are the nominees in my category. (And I hope it won&#8217;t be seen as an insult to the writers with whom I&#8217;ve appeared on any previous ballot  if I say that collectively,  this is the most talented group with whom I&#8217;ve ever competed. Seeing those other names fills me with awe and has me thinking &#8230; &#8220;Do I really belong <em>there<\/em>?&#8221;)<\/p>\n<blockquote><p><em>Occultation<\/em>, Laird Barron (Night Shade)<br \/>\n<em>The Ones That Got Away<\/em>, Stephen Graham Jones (Prime Books)<br \/>\n<em>The Third Bear<\/em>, Jeff Vandermeer (Tachyon)<br \/>\n<em>What I Didn\u2019t See<\/em>, Karen Joy Fowler (Small Beer Press)<br \/>\n<em>What Will Come After<\/em>, Scott Edelman (PS Publishing)<\/p><\/blockquote>\n<p>The winners of the 2010 Shirley Jackson Awards will be announced in July at Readercon, a convention I&#8217;ve been attending since 1987. I love that con more than any other, and the sense of anticipation I&#8217;ll be feeling throughout that weekend could make it the best Readercon yet!<\/p>\n<p>Hope to see you there!<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>I&#8217;ve been biting my tongue since Monday because the Shirley Jackson Awards committee wanted to keep the news secret until its site could be updated, but I can now reveal here that my short story collection What Will Come After is a nominee in the category of Single-Author Collection. Since you can easily find the [&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":[],"class_list":["post-2586","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-uncategorized"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.scottedelman.com\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2586","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=2586"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.scottedelman.com\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2586\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.scottedelman.com\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=2586"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.scottedelman.com\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=2586"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.scottedelman.com\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=2586"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}