Huh

[james_davis_nicoll]

This is probably in no way significant, but it just occurred to me to check to see where WorldCon was the years I was nominated:

2010: Melbourne, Australia
2011: Reno, USA
2019: Dublin, Ireland
2020: Wellington, New Zealand
2024: Glasgow, Scotland

(I was nowhere near the ballot in 2009, Montreal)

At a guess, those are years where vote totals were a bit lower?


Let's look at Best Fan Writer, 2007 to 2024. Year is the year, ballots is the number of nominating ballots cast, me is how many nominations I got, and me/ballots % is what you would think.

Year           Ballots     Me   Me/Ballots %
2007             ?          7
2008           195         13    6.7%
2009           291         22    7.6
2010*            ?         30    
2011*          323         36   12.1
2012           363         37   10.2
2013           485          ?     ?                Did not make the long list
2014           521         30    5.2
2015           777         40    5.1
2016          1568         87    5.6
2017           802         55    6.9
2018           504         24    4.8
2019*          472         41    8.7
2020*          340         40   11.8
2021           365         41   11.2
2022           368         28    7.6
2023           241         15    6.2               Numbers may be completely fraudulent
2024*           ?          27    ?

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[(Anonymous)]

FWIW, I had been reading you for a decade before it even occurred to me to go to a Worldcon, let alone nominate you. It was a spur-of-the-moment thing when we were at the Polish con in Krakow and Esther invited us. She had just got her Glasgow 2024 tatoo.