If you’re a book blogger, don’t forget to nominate your favorite SFF stories from 2016.
Happy New Year — it’s time to nominate your favorite science fiction and fantasy writing for the 2016 Planetary Awards.
We’re doing only two categories this year:
- Shorter story (under 40,000 words/160 paperback pages)
- Longer story (novels)
If you’re a book blogger, book podcaster, or booktuber, the nomination process is easy:
- Post your nominations on your site
- Leave a comment on this post, with a link to your nominations
The nomination deadline is February 14th, 11:59PM US Pacific time.
Good luck to all of 2016’s authors. Don’t forget to spread the word to other book reviewers!
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I’m in! Here’s a link to me own humble ballot:
http://seagullrising.blogspot.com/2017/01/2016-planetary-award-nomination.html
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Here is mine:
http://www.castaliahouse.com/2016-planetary-award-nomination/
:pops the popcorn:
Let’s do this!
Haven’t heard of that award. Is it another culture war zone?
It’s an award where nominations and votes are only open to book bloggers / podcasters / booktubers.
Where the Hugos take votes from people who are willing to spend money, the Planetary Awards takes votes from people who are willing to spend their time, telling others about the world of SFF stories.
Here’s a couple more: http://injusticegamer.blogspot.com/2017/01/2016-planetary-awards.html
Let’s see some good stories.
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Novel: Murphy’s Law of Vampires by Declan Finn
I’ll get everyone else’s nominations up on the Planetary Awards Blog over the next couple of days!
Sure.
Novel: Murphy’s Law of Vampires, by Declan Finn
Thanks Brian. You’re right
Novel: “Murphy’s Law of Vampires,” by Declan Finn
Oh, and short
“You’re a Dinah Shore My Love,” by Lou Antonelli.
Zev and Meg, you’ll have to post links to your blog posts, for your nominations to be counted.
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My nominations. https://mcsmith187.wordpress.com/2017/02/12/planetary-awards-nomination-2016/
Novel: “Murphy’s Law of Vampires” by Declan Finn
Sorry, here’s the link:
http://wastelandandsky.blogspot.ca/2017/02/2016-planetary-award-nomination.html
For some reason it wouldn’t go through before.