Nominations for the Dragon closed July 24, and after a week had passed I assumed I had not made the grade. I was sure of it last Thursday night when I received an email that had a link to the final ballot.
I opened the ballot, to see who HAD made the grade, and was startled to see my name there. The Dragon award apparently is less bureaucratic than some others, I suppose, and they simply released the final ballot the way the nominations fell.
That does lead to the question, did they tell anyone, or just put the ballot on a website somewhere and expect the information to diffuse by Brownian motion?
If a music festival had an award for "best song of the last year," they might not inform the bands until they had winners picked out. So in this case, they're treating authors like distant celebrities rather than part of the community that makes up the convention.
... I didn't say it was a good choice, just that I could follow the reasoning.
I know Jemisen blocks over-aggressively on twitter, so it's possible that's how notification was issued. (That's only a suggestion; I think it at least equally as likely they were not organized enough to get notifications out via email, and that it's also possible they simply didn't even try.)
I followed her a while ago and she blocked me quite quickly. I hope it was an impersonal worst-possible-scenario prophylactic block, so to speak, not anything in my posting history. As it was I didn't take it personally, I'm sure she gets a lot of crap in her mentions.
That's what I meant by over-aggressively. She's got me blocked, she unblocked me when I pointed it out, and then did so again. She's using block lists from other people to do this.
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If a music festival had an award for "best song of the last year," they might not inform the bands until they had winners picked out. So in this case, they're treating authors like distant celebrities rather than part of the community that makes up the convention.
... I didn't say it was a good choice, just that I could follow the reasoning.
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