It’s the season for authors to post award-eligibility post so here’s mine. If you’re considering works for the Hugo, Nebula or World Fantasy Awards, my short story "The Eight-Thousanders" is eligible. The story was published in the Sept./Oct. 2020 issue of Asimov’s Science Fiction and focuses on the ethical issues surrounding mountain climbing and the destructive tech bro attitudes found within elite industries.
Or tl;dr: VAMPIRE ON MOUNT EVEREST!
Copies of that issue of Asimov’s are no longer available, but the story was reprinted in Apex Magazine and can be read online.
If you prefer to read the story in a different format you can request a free digital copy of "The Eight-Thousanders" from me at this link. When you complete that short form you’ll be given the option to request the story as a Kindle, Epub, Word, or PDF file.
So far the story is receiving excellent reviews, with SFRevu calling it “Hugo worthy” and Sam J. Miller calling it “a chilling, exciting story of climbing Mount Everest, and the internal demons that drive you to do so, and the external ones that might confront you when you do.”
If you want to read more about the story, the Asimov’s blog did an interview with me about it including the story’s origins and my thoughts on issues such as masculinity.