After having said that people ought to put up awards eligibility posts, I guess I should do one of my own. These days I feel way too guilty about this because I have plenty of Hugos already. I certainly don’t expect to win any more. But here are a few reasons you might consider nominating things I have done.

First up is something I won’t get any credit for: Adventure Rocketship #1. All I did with this is love it so much that I asked if I could publish an ebook edition. It is a strange beast because it contains both fiction and non-fiction. There’s also confusion as to whether it is a magazine or a book. Well, as far as I’m concerned, anything that only comes out once a year is a book. Locus is treating it as an anthology, and it does contain several very good stories, but it contains as much non-fiction. And that non-fiction is by people such as Jon Courtenay-Grimwood, N.K. Jemisin and Minister Faust. I have no idea what the Administrators will make of fit, and I don’t envy Dave McCarty having to sort it out, but I’m going to nominate it in Related Work and see what happens. You should credit Jonathan Wright as editor, and Tangent Books / Wizards Tower Press as the publishers.

Some of the individual stories might also strike your fancy, though if you are going to nominate a Tim Maughan story (and I think you should) I think that “Zero Hours” has a better chance.

Secondly we have Small Blue Planet. That would be a nomination for Karen Burnham and myself in Fancast. The reason I want to get this nominated is that it would encourage more people to listen to the podcasts, as a result of which they would find out about all of the great non-Anglo writers and translators we spoke to.

By the way, if you are wondering what has happened to the podcast, Karen and I do want to make more, but we are both stupidly busy right now and we just don’t have the time.

Finally people keep nominating me for Best Fanwriter, which is very kind of y’all. Since 2009 I have been intending to decline if nominated, because I’ve been doing perfectly OK without this. However, this year’s Worldcon is in London, and is probably the only one for at least a decade that members of my family are likely to attend. So if I do get on the ballot this time I am going to accept. I will be back to declining again next year, promise.

A separate post about all of the other people I’d like you to nominate will come soon.