Adventures of a Bookonaut: Nominate Me! or Someone Else

I very much appreciate it when people lay out their publications/productions and which categories they qualify for. It may just be my limited intellect, but it is difficult to work out whether something is a novel, novella, novelette or short story (short of doing some manual word counting), let alone whether or not it qualifies from a timing perspective. Different awards have different definitions and working out when something was published in the right market is sometimes near impossible without a lot of research!

I've just finished nominating in the Hugos - the various notes people left about their own work was very much appreciated. So I for one would encourage people to put their modesty aside and make it easy for people to nominate them.

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SB Wright 110p · 679 weeks ago

In full agreement with you Mark. There was an interesting post by Paul Cornell vs those what don't like it when authors tweet or post about their eligibility.

Did you find the Hugo's site especially hard to navigate around? I wanted to buy a membership that allowed me to vote but it was all a bit to difficult.

Yes, it was a bit complicated wasn't it? I bought a supporting membership to Chicon so I could nominate/vote, but it took quite a while for my PIN and the nomination process details to come through.

I ended up needing to set up a spreadsheet to track my potential nominations. It took a while to work out what to put in, and I wasn't even trying to nominate it categories I didn't know much about (Best Art, Best Graphic Novel type categories).

There were lots of great Australian podcasts to nominate - was a bit spoiled for choice!

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Weird - I think my last submitted comment disappeared into the ether. Apologies if something similar turns up twice!

Yes, it was a bit complicated wasn't it? I purchased a supporting membership for Chicon (being new to looking at the awards scene it took me a while to work out what a supporting membership was etc). Once I'd done that, it took a while for the information relating to the nomination process to come through.

After that I had to maintain a spreadsheet just to track what I wanted to nominate (and I wasn't even nominating things in all of the categories - I don't have any informed comment to make about best fan artist for instance).

Fortunately there were a lot of great Australian podcasts to nominate this year - I was spoiled for choice!

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SB Wright 110p · 679 weeks ago

Caught in my Spam folder for some reason and I wasn't notified grrrr.

Not the first time I've been thought of as spam - probably not the last!

Well, at least you can see how well (or not) I can remember what I actually said from comment to comment!!!

(Feel free to delete your two least favourite of the three comments :)

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I've tried to respond a couple of times but my comments keep disappearing into the ether. Trying from another computer, so apologies if a few similar sounding responses suddenly turn up!

Yes, it was a bit confusing wasn't it? It's the first year I've tried to participate in voting, so working out that I had to go to the Chicon website and register as a supporting member and sorting out how to do that was a bit of a pain. Having registered, it took a while for the nomination information to come through.

Then I created a spreadsheet to track who I might want to nominate before finally voting. And that was just trying to vote in the few categories I had an opinion on. Fortunately for my sanity I don't have any useful knowledge about Best Fan Artist (for instance).

On the plus side, there were a lot of excellent Australian podcasts to choose from in the Fanzine/Fancast categories - I was spoiled for choice!

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SB Wright 110p · 679 weeks ago

Thanks for being persistent though :) . By the way are you going to Swancon?

My voice will be heard!

Unfortunately not - couldn't swing getting across to WA. I'm tossing up getting Conflux and/or Continuum though. Are you thinking about either of them?

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SB Wright 110p · 679 weeks ago

Trying to gather funds for continuum at the moment.

mark · 679 weeks ago

My wife has family in Melbourne, so I'm hoping to convince her that a trip to Continuum could serve multiple purposes!

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SB Wright 110p · 679 weeks ago

Football...no wait she's probably not into that...theatre? :D