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NEWS: World Fantasy Awards Nomination Period Now Open (Closes May 31, 2018)

This year’s World Fantasy Awards nomination period is now open.

The World Fantasy Awards will be presented in Baltimore, MD during the World Fantasy Convention (Nov. 1-4). Deadline for nominating is and ballots must be received by May 31, 2018.

All registered members of the 2016 World Fantasy Convention, the 2017 World Fantasy Convention, and the 2018 event in Baltimore will be eligible to vote before the deadline. If you didn’t attend one of the previously mentioned World Fantasy conventions, and you don’t plan to attend this year, you can still nominate by purchasing a supporting membership.

Already registered? Go and nominate your favorite works! Voting information is available on the World Fantasy Convention 2018 website.

To assist you in finding material to nominate, I’ve assembled this post to list everything that I worked on in 2017.

All of Lightspeed’s original fiction from 2017 is available online (and also much of the 2017 original fiction is available as a podcast).
All of Nightmare’s original fiction from 2017 is available online (and also much of the 2017 original fiction is available as a podcast).

After the jump, you’ll find all of the 2017 eligible stories/authors that either appeared in Lightspeed or Nightmare, or in projects I’m otherwise affiliated with. Everything is sorted into their proper World Fantasy categories. In the interest of clarity, I’ve eliminated any science fiction from these lists, as SF is not eligible for the World Fantasy Award.

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NEWS: CREATURES OF CHARM AND HUNGER by Molly Tanzer Acquired for John Joseph Adams Books (Houghton Mifflin Harcourt)

In my role as editor of John Joseph Adams Books for Houghton Mifflin Harcourt, I’m please to announce a new acquisition for the imprint. Here’s the deal memo that just ran on Publishers Marketplace:

Molly Tanzer’s CREATURES OF CHARM AND HUNGER, the third book in her series that began with CREATURES OF WILL AND TEMPER, a WWII-era fantasy set in England where two teenage girls seek to become full members of an international society of diabolists, a quest that will nearly ruin their friendship and take them down dark paths when one girl learns her parents were taken to a concentration camp and the other summons a powerful and mysterious demon, to John Joseph Adams Books, for publication in Spring 2020, by Cameron McClure at Donald Maass Literary Agency (World English).

NEWS: Carrie Vaughn’s BANNERLESS Wins Philip K. Dick Award

Carrie Vaughn’s BANNERLESS—the very first original novel we acquired and published under my John Joseph Adams Books imprint (Houghton Mifflin Harcourt)—just won the Philip K. Dick Award! Huge congrats to Carrie!

The full list of finalists this year were:

THE BOOK OF ETTA by Meg Elison (47North)
SIX WAKES by Mur Lafferty (Orbit)
AFTER THE FLARE by Deji Bryce Olukotun (The Unnamed Press)
THE WRONG STARS by Tim Pratt (Angry Robot)
REVENGER Alastair Reynolds (Orbit)
BANNERLESS by Carrie Vaughn (Mariner/Houghton Mifflin Harcourt) – Winner!
ALL SYSTEMS RED by Martha Wells (Tor.com)

The winner was announced on at Norwescon 41 in SeaTac, Washington.

The Philip K. Dick Award is presented annually with the support of the Philip K. Dick Trust for distinguished science fiction published in paperback original form in the United States during the previous calendar year. The award is sponsored by the Philadelphia Science Fiction Society and the Philip K. Dick Trust and the award ceremony is sponsored by the Northwest Science Fiction Society. This year’s judges were Deborah J. Ross (chair), Robert Onopa, James Stoddard, Amy Thomson, and Rick Wilber.

Launching on Patreon and Drip, or How to Become a Dragonrider or Space Wizard

I just launched a Patreon (patreon.com/JohnJosephAdams) and a Drip (d.rip/john-joseph-adams) as a way for readers and fans to support my editorial endeavors. Details below.

TL;DR Version

If you enjoy Lightspeed and Nightmare and my anthologies, this is a way for you to help support that endeavor by chipping in a buck or more on a recurring basis. Your support will help us bring bigger and better (and more) projects into the world.

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NEWS: THE CHAOS FUNCTION by Jack Skillingstead Acquired for John Joseph Adams Books (Houghton Mifflin Harcourt)

Jack Skillingstead’s THE CHAOS FUNCTION, about a war reporter who is drawn into a mysterious world of shifting timelines, machines that control probability, apocalypses both nuclear and biological, and a secret society that has the power to shape history—and save the world, to John Joseph Adams Books, for publication in Spring 2019. (World)

NEWS: Hugo Awards Nomination Period Now Open

This year’s Hugo Awards nomination period is now open. The 2018 Hugo Awards will be presented in San Jose, CA during Worldcon 76 (Aug. 16-20, 2018). Nominations close on March 16, 2017 at 11:59pm Pacific Daylight Time. The list of finalists will be announced on Saturday March 31, 2018.

Anyone who is a voting member of the 2017, 2018, or 2019 Worldcons is eligible to nominate. You may nominate only once, regardless of how many of those three Worldcons you are a member. [Become a member of Worldcon 76.]

Nominations may be submitted through the online ballot. If you’re registered Worldcon 76 will send you (or likely already has sent you) a link and a PIN via email that will allow you to vote.

To assist you in finding material to nominate, I’ve assembled this post to list everything that I worked on in 2017.

All of Lightspeed’s original fiction from 2017 is available online (and also much of the 2017 original fiction is available as a podcast).
All of Nightmare’s original fiction from 2017 is available online (and also much of the 2017 original fiction is available as a podcast).

After the jump, you’ll find all of the 2017 eligible stories/authors that either appeared in Lightspeed or Nightmare, or in projects I’m otherwise affiliated with. Everything is sorted into their proper Hugo categories. In the interest of clarity (and to avoid the confusion that perhaps I’ve left something off the list by accident), I’ve listed some items that are ineligible and have them struckthrough to indicate their ineligibility.

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REVIEW: “A phantasmagoric murder mystery that wails, chants, laments, and changes shape as audaciously as the mythical beings populating its narrative.” —Kirkus, on THE CITY OF LOST FORTUNES (starred review)

“A phantasmagoric murder mystery that wails, chants, laments, and changes shape as audaciously as the mythical beings populating its narrative. […] The engaging style, facility with folklore, and, above all, impassioned love for the city its characters call home keeps you enraptured by the book’s most chilling and outrageous plot twists.” —Kirkus (starred review), on THE CITY OF LOST FORTUNES [review]

NEWS: THE UNFINISHED LAND by Greg Bear Acquired for John Joseph Adams Books (Houghton Mifflin Harcourt)

In my role as editor of John Joseph Adams Books for Houghton Mifflin Harcourt, I just made a new acquisition. Here’s the deal memo that just ran on Publishers Marketplace:

NYT bestseller and multiple Hugo and Nebula Award-winner Greg Bear’s THE UNFINISHED LAND, about a time of great peril—the sailing of the Spanish Armada—when a young man is transported in a wrecked fishing boat to a lost island at the top of the world, to be caught up in a war that pits gods against monsters and humans against the slavery of history, to John Joseph Adams Books, in a pre-empt, for publication in 2019, by Richard Curtis at Richard Curtis Associates. (NA). UK/ translation: Baror International.

NEWS: Nebula Awards Nomination Period Now Open + Free Stuff for SFWA Members

This year’s Nebula Awards nomination period is now open.

From November 15 to February 15, Active and Associate SFWA members may submit nominations for the Nebula Awards. Nominations may be submitted through the online ballot, available here. For more information, visit SFWA’s How to Vote page.

To assist you in finding material to nominate, I’ve assembled this post to list everything that I worked on in 2017.

All of Lightspeed’s original fiction from 2017 is available online (and also much of the 2017 original fiction is available as a podcast). If you are a SFWA member, you can also download an ebook (epub/mobi/pdf) compilation of all 2017’s original material from the SFWA forums.
All of Nightmare’s original fiction from 2017 is available online (and also much of the 2017 original fiction is available as a podcast). If you are a SFWA member, you can also download an ebook (epub/mobi/pdf) compilation of all 2017’s original material from the SFWA forums.
The two original (2017) stories in MACHINE LEARNING by Hugh Howey are not online, but if you are a SFWA member, you can download them from the SFWA forums. [story 1 | story 2]
The two eligible novels I edited for John Joseph Adams Books—BANNERLESS by Carrie Vaughn and CREATURES OF WILL AND TEMPER by Molly Tanzer—are available for SFWA members in the SFWA forums. [BANNERLESS | CREATURES]

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NEWS: BREAK THE BODIES, HAUNT THE BONES by Micah Dean Hicks Acquired for John Joseph Adams Books (Houghton Mifflin Harcourt)

In my role as editor of John Joseph Adams Books for Houghton Mifflin Harcourt, I just made a new acquisition. Here’s the deal memo that just ran on Publishers Marketplace:

Author of New American Fiction Prize-winning ELECTRICTY AND OTHER DREAMS, Micah Dean Hicks’s debut BREAK THE BODIES, HAUNT THE BONES, in which dangerous machines and unnatural beastmen mysteriously arrive in a dying town already filled with ghosts, forcing a haunted brother and sister to figure out how to save their family before tortured spirits tear the town and the newcomers apart, to John Joseph Adams Books, in a preempt, for publication in Spring 2019, by Kerry D’Agostino at Curtis Brown (NA, Audio).

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