Shirley Jackson Awards Lottery

[realthog]

This'll be quick because I'm up to my eyes in (today) antigravity drives that have been back-engineered from the crashed saucers at Roswell -- I kid you not. Oh, dear.

Anyway, the Shirley Jackson Awards Lottery, which helps fund the eponymous awards, has opened! Lots of shiny things you can win, donated by publishers, authors and generous fans like the excellent sarcobatus.

Secure in the knowledge that I'll never have a conflict-of-interest problem here, I've donated signed copies of my satirical novel The Dragons of Manhattan (which Fantasy BookSpot didn't think was a very good dragon fantasy, oh my, although others have made with the cries of "Orwell" and "Carroll" and "Swift") and my story collection Take No Prisoners; for reasons I don't understand, they've been offered as a single lot -- perhaps on the principle that no one in their right minds would pay as much as a dollar for one of my books on its own. I also see the books are listed as having been written and donated by "ohn Grant", which is about par for the course of my life at the moment.

Anyway, hurry over there, bid for lots of stuff, and if they're my books that you win I'll even, if requested, add a few kissy-marks when I sign them for you!

Comments

[kylecassidy.livejournal.com]

they never would have been able to reverse-engineer those drives without the cooperation of sasquatch. the bigfeets ability to effortlessly slide from one dimension to another was really the key in understanding the grey's protoplasm euotonic slip drive.

[realthog.livejournal.com]

To be honest, that's positively mundane alongside some of the fruitcakery through which I'm wading . . .

[kylecassidy.livejournal.com]

i promise to try harder.

[realthog.livejournal.com]

Oh, no! Please don't!

[sarcobatus.livejournal.com]

Hey, thanks, P!

Well, we already know who's "ohn Grant": Pamela.

[fledgist.livejournal.com]

I rather like H. Beam Piper's term 'contragravity' (it makes more sense than the Graeco-Latin hybrid, because gravity is being countered rather than opposed).

"ohn Grant"? That would be a typo for "ohne Grant"("without Grant") would it?

[realthog.livejournal.com]

"ohn Grant"? That would be a typo for "ohne Grant"("without Grant") would it?

Their blurb about me says I'm "an accomplished writer" which makes me feel like I'm six years old.

[fledgist.livejournal.com]

John plays well with his classmates, and is good at swearing sharing.

[sarcobatus.livejournal.com]

"This'll be quick because I'm up to my eyes in (today) antigravity drives that have been back-engineered from the crashed saucers at Roswell -- I kid you not. Oh, dear."

Watch out for the anal probe . . . speaking of back-engineered.