More Good News - Again :)

[pameladlloyd]

I'm sure I'm still behind, but more people on my flist have had good news to report, so here's another gold star for all of you:



Sean Williams (ladnews), has been busy.

In this December 4 post, he mentions: that Voyager online has published some of his thoughts about Clarion; he's found a video on YouTube of an interview in which he discusses how the Writers of the Future contest changed his life; he's received positive reviews of his soon to be available YA novel, The Scarecrow, from Bookseller and Publisher (PW?); and Ansible published a letter he wrote about an error message he received from Gender Analyzer, after the site determined his writing was not in English. (By the way, I discovered an excerpt from The Scarecrow on Sean´s website, so head on over there and check it out.) You can also see the cover and blurb for The Scarecrow in his December 12 post.

I also happened to notice that he has a book listed as #5 on planetfantastic's November bestseller list: Star Wars: The Force Unleashed
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On December 9, Sean lists his works that have been nominated for the Aurealis Award: Earth Ascendant - Best SF Novel; The Changeling - Best YA Novel and Best Children's Long Fiction; The Dust Devils
- Best Children's Long Fiction; and Magic Dirt: The Best of Sean Williams - Best Collection. Whew!

Also nominated for the Aurealis Award were two stories by Deborah Biancotti (deborahb), "Pale Dark Soldier" in Midnight Echo #1 (Kirstyn McDermott and Ian Mond eds.), and "The Tailor of Time" in Clockwork Phoenix: Tales of Beauty and Strangeness, (Mike Allen ed.).

Catherine Lundoff (catherineldf) also has lots of news to report. In this post, she mentions that her contributor's copy of Mondadori's Best Erotica 2008 has arrived; in it, her story, "Spoonbridge and Cherry," appears in translation (Italian, I think). This year she recieved the 2008 Goldie Award for Erotica and the Lesbian Fiction Readers Choice Award, and she is under consideration for the 2008 Gaylactic Spectrum Award. Additionally, she mentions that her publisher, Steve Berman of Lethe Press, has nominated her novel, Haunted Hearths & Sapphic Shades: Lesbian Ghost Stories, for the 2008 Lambda Literary Award.

Elizabeth Bear mentions that All the Windwracked Stars has a review at Tor.com, and one at Green Man Review (but, beware of spoilers if you read the one at Green Man Review). In this post, she mentions that her story, Dust, is a Romantic Times Reviewer's Choice Award nominee in the SF category. She also notes a number of international credits: Japanese editions of her Jenny Casey books are now available, translations of "Tideline," "Wax," and "Wane" are to be published by the Czech magazine Ikarie, and "Tideline" will be appearing in translation in the Italian magazine, Robot.

Janni Lee Simner (janni) reports that indigowolf made a countdown widget for Bones of Faerie.


I'm sure that while I've been busy away from LJ, plenty more of you completed projects, had stories or books accepted or published, got great reviews, and otherwise had good news which I have missed. Please, accept this star as just one more accolade, with my apologies for missing you and being unable to pass on the word. Feel free to bring us up-to-date in the comments.