{"id":894,"date":"2015-07-09T10:46:39","date_gmt":"2015-07-09T10:46:39","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/georgerrmartin.com\/notablog\/?p=894"},"modified":"2017-07-17T20:10:08","modified_gmt":"2017-07-17T20:10:08","slug":"world-fantasy-shortlist-announced","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/georgerrmartin.com\/notablog\/2015\/07\/09\/world-fantasy-shortlist-announced\/","title":{"rendered":"World Fantasy Shortlist Announced"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>This year&#8217;s shortlist for the World Fantasy Awards has been announced, and I am proud and pleased to learn that ROGUES is a finalist for the Howard as Best Anthology.<\/p>\n<p>The winners will be announced at this year&#8217;s World Fantasy Con in Saratoga Springs.  Which I will not be able to attend, alas.  I&#8217;d hoped to&#8230; the last WFC in Saratoga was great fun, and I loved the city, and the train ride up the Hudson from NYC&#8230; but the press of work, etc.<\/p>\n<p>For the full ballot, go here:  <a href=\"http:\/\/www.worldfantasy.org\/awards\/\">http:\/\/www.worldfantasy.org\/awards\/<\/a><\/p>\n<p><img decoding=\"async\" src=\"http:\/\/georgerrmartin.com\/notablog\/wp-content\/uploads\/import\/258883_300.jpg\" alt=\"\" title=\"\"><img decoding=\"async\" src=\"http:\/\/georgerrmartin.com\/notablog\/wp-content\/uploads\/import\/259327_300.jpg\" alt=\"\" title=\"\"><\/p>\n<p>(I would be surprised if ROGUES actually won.  It&#8217;s up against some strong competition, including an anthology by my dear friend Ellen Datlow, and &#8220;Never get between Ellen Datlow and a World Fantasy Award&#8221; is right up their with &#8220;Never get in a land war in Asia&#8221; and &#8220;Never play poker with a man named Doc&#8221; where life&#8217;s truisms are concerned.  It is, however, an honor just to be nominated). <\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>This year&#8217;s shortlist for the World Fantasy Awards has been announced, and I am proud and pleased to learn that ROGUES is a finalist for the Howard as Best Anthology. The winners will be announced at this year&#8217;s World Fantasy Con in Saratoga Springs. Which I will not be able to attend, alas. I&#8217;d hoped [&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":[47,29,212],"acf":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/georgerrmartin.com\/notablog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/894"}],"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=894"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/georgerrmartin.com\/notablog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/894\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":895,"href":"https:\/\/georgerrmartin.com\/notablog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/894\/revisions\/895"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/georgerrmartin.com\/notablog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=894"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/georgerrmartin.com\/notablog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=894"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/georgerrmartin.com\/notablog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=894"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}