pameladean

Seriously, what Amal said:

http://amalelmohtar.com/2014/01/09/of-awards-eligibility-lists-and-unbearable-smugness/

I am not eligible for any awards because I had nothing published in 2013, so I can't make a post of that nature.  But for those of you who are eligible because you did have something published, you would make my life much easier if you did make such a post.  I have a very difficult time remembering when a work was published and am not all that wonderful at recalling, either, whether it was a short story, a novelette, or a novella.  Sometimes I misremember who wrote what and become alarmingly entangled in an alternate universe where Mary Smith wrote what was actually Jane Brown's story but Google knows nothing of it, even though my mind is quite, quite sure that I have the facts of the matter correct.  (Someday I will tell you about the world where Meg Hutchinson wrote a song called "Iowa," but not today.)

Please help out all around by listing your accomplishments, if you would like to do so.

When I am eligible I will probably fail to make such a post because my organizational skills are minimal and, honestly, I probably won't remember what year my book was published any more than I can remember what year anybody else's was.  So I cannot throw any asparagus.  But if you are hesitating to make such a post because you fear to annoy me or people like me, you will really do quite the opposite.

Thanks very much to those of you who have already listed the stories of whatever length that you had published last year.

Pamela