Eligible for Hugo Award for Best Fan Writer

A quick note that I'm eligible for nomination for the Hugo Award for Best Fan Writer. I write a weekly column called Genre Grapevine on my Patreon, along with publishing other original essays and commentary on both Patreon and my website.

In 2018 my original reporting on genre issues covered topics as diverse as issues with the Writers of the Future contest, problems with the contract offered by the now-defunct SF magazine Spectacle, and concerns with presses such as Left Hand Publishers.

The following are a sample of my genre-related essays published in 2018. All of these examples were released free to the public, making them eligible for Best Fan Writer consideration.

Thanks for considering me for a nomination. And if you like the samples of my Genre Grapevine column linked to below, consider backing my Patreon.

Samples of public Genre Grapevine columns

• Genre Grapevine for 9/18/2018

• Genre Grapevine for 8/15/2018 (Worldcon preview edition)

• Genre Grapevine for 6/10/2018

• Genre Grapevine for 4/11/2018

Samples of genre commentary and reporting

• Where to find SF/F criticism and reviews

• Best SF/F short fiction, January through June 2018

• Looking at the recent changes at Tor

• Publisher files suit against Nocturnal Reader's Box, alleges $100,000 in books from multiple genre presses are missing

• Translating Dempow Torishima’s Sisyphean into English

• Market report on Queen of Swords Press

• Dream Foundry's dream is to help new speculative fiction writers

• Harlan Ellison, SF’s First Angry Writer

• Amazing Stories rejection emails and why I report on the SF/F genre

• Spectacle Magazine contract update

• Questionable sales surround Writers of the Future anthologies

• Authors should be wary of issues surrounding Left Hand Publishers

• Spectacle Magazine contract issues

• Market report: Submission and acceptance numbers from Apex, Asimov's, Beneath Ceaseless Skies, Clarkesworld, and The Dark