In case you care…
The fine folks at Unreality-SF.net are celebrating their fourth anniversary of reviewing SF/F on the Intertubes by accepting nominations for their latest annual awards extravaganza, the Media Tie-in SF/F Story of the Year trophy.
(It’s kind of like the Scribe Award, except it’s voted on by fans, making it the Tie-in Hugo to the IAMTW‘s Tie-in Nebula. Which is significant, since tie-ins are perennially snubbed by the voters of both those awards.)
The nominating period starts today, March 19, and continues through March 26, 2012. Here are the rules, in their own words:
Starting today, you can nominate three stories. At the end of the week, we’ll count up the suggestions to find the ten that are most popular.
Next Monday, we’ll post that final shortlist and give you seven days to pick one absolute favourite.
And then the authors of the first- and second-placed stories each get a block of glass with their name engraved in it.
Plus, one lucky participant in this process will win a free Amazon.com voucher. Hey, it beats a poke in the eye with a sharp stick, at least.
For a story to be eligible, it must: 1) be an officially licensed literary (prose or comic) tie-in to an existing SF/F property in another medium (TV, film, game, etc.); 2) have been published between March 1, 2011, and February 29, 2012; and, 3) be an individual story, not multiple related works (such as a trilogy or a multi-issue comic-book series).
Why am I telling you this? Could it be that I have published works that are eligible for your consideration? Mayyyyybe.
Seriously, if you want to throw my work into the mix, my two eligible stories are my novel Star Trek Mirror Universe: Rise Like Lions and my novella in Star Trek Vanguard: Declassified, “The Stars Look Down”.
Do with that information what you will.