{"id":1475,"date":"2014-03-31T19:42:25","date_gmt":"2014-03-31T19:42:25","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/georgerrmartin.com\/notablog\/?p=1475"},"modified":"2017-08-29T21:16:56","modified_gmt":"2017-08-29T21:16:56","slug":"hugo-deadline-at-hand","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/georgerrmartin.com\/notablog\/2014\/03\/31\/hugo-deadline-at-hand\/","title":{"rendered":"Hugo Deadline At Hand"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Just a reminder.&nbsp; Today is the last day to nominate for the 2014 Hugo Awards, to be awarded this August in London.&nbsp; You will need to be a memer (attending or supporting) of LonCon to vote&#8230; but if you were a member of last year&#39;s San Antonio worldcon, or the forthcoming one in Spokane, you can still nominate.<\/p>\n<p>The Hugos are the oldest award in the fields of SF and fantasy, and still far and away the most important.&nbsp;&nbsp; They are a fan award&#8230; a reader award&#8230; YOUR award&#8230; so do let your voice be heard.<\/p>\n<p>To nominate, start at the official website here: <a href=\"http:\/\/www.loncon3.org\/nominations.php\">http:\/\/www.loncon3.org\/nominations.php<\/a><\/p>\n<p>You will need your membership number and PIN.<\/p>\n<p>(I don&#39;t have time to give a long list of recommendations this year, as I have done in past years.&nbsp; But I will suggest that you remember GARY GIANNI when nominating for Best Professional Artist, for his incredible work on the 2014 Ice &amp; Fire calendar, and JANE JOHNSON and MALCOLM EDWARDS when nominating Best Professional Editor, Long Form.&nbsp; This is a British worldcon, after all, and these two titans of SF and fantasy publishing in the UK have NEVER received a single nomination for their contributions to our field, which is shocking and shameful.&nbsp; Both of them deserve places on the ballot this year).<\/p>\n<p>((And even if you have already sent in your e-ballot, it&#39;s not too late.&nbsp; The LonCon format permits you to go back and add and even change right up to the deadline)). <\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Just a reminder.&nbsp; Today is the last day to nominate for the 2014 Hugo Awards, to be awarded this August in London.&nbsp; You will need to be a memer (attending or supporting) of LonCon to vote&#8230; but if you were a member of last year&#39;s San Antonio worldcon, or the forthcoming one in Spokane, you [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_acf_changed":false,"footnotes":""},"categories":[1],"tags":[39],"acf":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/georgerrmartin.com\/notablog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1475"}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/georgerrmartin.com\/notablog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/georgerrmartin.com\/notablog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/georgerrmartin.com\/notablog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/georgerrmartin.com\/notablog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=1475"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/georgerrmartin.com\/notablog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1475\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":1476,"href":"https:\/\/georgerrmartin.com\/notablog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1475\/revisions\/1476"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/georgerrmartin.com\/notablog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=1475"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/georgerrmartin.com\/notablog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=1475"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/georgerrmartin.com\/notablog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=1475"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}