LOL. The Nebula voting packet is 95% PDFs.
Fuck that noise. I'm not struggling through reading a PDF on a device that I normally read on (it would have to be my iPad).
Nor am I inclined to try some janky conversion to EPUB.
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🗡 a goblin girl with a forbidden crush
💎 a human princess with a secret
🐸 a cursed knight
🌳 a wooden boy
They must stop a vengeful sorceress from completing an ancient weapon before the world is reduced to rubble
Goblin Girl is now a Nebula Award finalist
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I loveddd this book! Through the setting of a fantasy world, Goblin Girl explores racism, acceptance of oneself, and the obligatory power of friendship. I find that all these topics are commented on quite impactfully in Goblin Girl, and I found it was quite moving reading the dialogue. I personally really enjoyed the romantic side-plot, but I am also just a romantic so. While it does take a backseat to the greater story (rightfully so), I still thought the small moments in between were just sososo cute. The story itself is your classic save-the-world underdog story where the heroes go on a grand adventure to save the kingdom from collapse. While the story is trope-y, I found that the characters are all very nuanced, which is refreshing for a book for targeted at elementary schoolers. Their thoughts, motivations, and dialogue all feel very human (or goblin? the english language isn't very inclusive to other species), and you can tell that they aren't just caricatures of worn out tropes. They feel real. And the things that this book has to say is powerful; I found my stance on race and war being clarified and synthesized by the words in this book. Overall, I have nothing to complain about. Great message, excellent characters, emotional moments, humourous humour, romance, adventure, action, what else could you ask for? If you like fantasy even a little bit, I don't think you could go wrong with reading this (especially since it's free!)
Trigger warnings are in the description of this itch.io page for those who haven't located them, although all matters are handled tastefully and authentically. All subject matter is, in my opinion, perfectly within reason for the target audience.
to extend my Earnest Posting a smidge, if any #SFWA members need convincing to read and vote for my queer little fantasy book, Goblin Girl has exactly one (1) review but it's a really good one
grab the epub here:
books2read.com/u/31pp16
or here:
kamielke.itch.io/goblin-girl
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it’s the Goblin Girl cover with Gertrude, Beatrix, Edwin, and Leaf, but I slapped the little Andre Norton finalist banner across the top
if you’re a SFWA member (and made it this far), a vote for Goblin Girl would mean so much to me (and Toby lol). but there’s no shortage of worthy finalists, and I’m truly honoured just to be nominated. not bad for a queer Canadian self-pub
thanks for reading
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GOBLIN GIRL BEING ANNOUNCED AS A NEBULA AWARD FINALIST ON SUNDAY AHHHH!!!
GOBLIN GIRL BEING ANNOUNCED AS A NEBULA AWARD FINALIST ON SUNDAY AHHHH!!! in such esteemed company as The Tower, Gemini Rising, Into the Wild Magic, Wishing Well, Wishing Well, and THE FRCIKIN’ HUNGER GAMES
all right, it’s probably time to Earnest Post
a thread
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One day, Comic Book Artists will be included in categories like these without a 2nd thought. Either #SFWA should include artists or simply rename the category to Comic Writer.
Newly minted Nebula Finalist for Best Novel R.F. Kuang is here at a #WORDChch event in May! wordchristchurch.co.nz/programme/rf...
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See you in Chicago to celebrate all our latest stars! 61st Nebula Awards Conference, June 3-7 sfwa.org/nebula-conference
If you haven't secured your tickets yet, online or in-person, for our 61st Nebula Awards Conference this June 3-7, we look forward to seeing you out! sfwa.org/nebula-conference
And SFWAns! Keep a sharp look-out for the start of our Final Nebula Ballot at 7pm PDT.
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And the Nebula Finalists for Best Poem are... “Though You Always Are” Linda D. Addison & Jamal Hodge (Everything Endless) “They Said Robots Are” Casey Aimer (Penumbric 6/25) “The World To Come” Jennifer Hudak (Strange Horizons 12/22/25) “The Mourning Robot” Angela Liu (Uncanny 9-10/25) “Care for Lightning” Mari Ness (Uncanny 1-2/25) “To Be the Change” Nico Martinez Nocito (Strange Horizons 3/10/25)
Congratulations to our Nebula Finalists for the FIRST EVER Nebula Award for Best Poem!
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And the Nebula Finalists for Best Novel are... When We Were Real Daryl Gregory (Saga) The Buffalo Hunter Hunter Stephen Graham Jones (Saga; Titan UK) Katabasis R.F. Kuang (Harper Voyager US; Harper Voyager UK) Death of the Author Nnedi Okorafor (Morrow; Gollancz) The Incandescent Emily Tesh (Tor; Orbit UK) Sour Cherry Natalia Theodoridou (Tin House; Wildfire) Wearing the Lion John Wiswell (DAW; Arcadia)
Congratulations to our Nebula Finalists for the 61st Nebula Award for Best Novel!
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And the Nebula Finalists for Best Novella are... Disgraced Return of the Kap's Needle Renan Bernardo (Dark Matter INK) The River Has Roots Amal El-Mohtar (Tordotcom; Arcadia) The Death of Mountains Jordan Kurella (Lethe) Automatic Noodle Annalee Newitz (Tordotcom) But Not Too Bold Hache Pueyo (Tordotcom) “Descent” Wole Talabi (Clarkesworld 5/25)
Congratulations to our Nebula Finalists for the 61st Nebula Award for Best Novella!
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And the Nebula Finalists for Best Novelette are... “Our Echoes Drifting Through the Marsh” Marie Croke (Beneath Ceaseless Skies 1/9/25) “Uncertain Sons” Thomas Ha (Uncertain Sons) “We Begin Where Infinity Ends” Somto Ihezue (Clarkesworld 2/25) The Name Ziya Wen-Yi Lee (Tor) “Never Eaten Vegetables” H.H. Pak (Clarkesworld 1/25) “The Life and Times of Alavira the Great as Written by Titos Pavlou and Reviewed by Two Lifelong Friends” Eugenia Triantafyllou (Uncanny 3-4/25)
Congratulations to our Nebula Finalists for the 61st Nebula Award for Best Novelette!
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And the Nebula Finalists for Best Short Story are... “Through the Machine” P.A. Cornell (Lightspeed 5/25) “Six People to Revise You” J.R. Dawson (Uncanny 1-2/25) “In My Country” Thomas Ha (Clarkesworld 4/25) “The Tawlish Island Songbook of the Dead” E.M. Linden (PodCastle 2/18/25) “Because I Held His Name Like a Key” Aimee Ogden (Strange Horizons 6/16/25) “Laser Eyes Ain't Everything” Effie Seiberg (Diabolical Plots 5/25)
Congratulations to our Nebula Finalists for the 61st Nebula Award for Best Short Story!
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Cover by Soo Lee
Aaaaahhhh! I know it's Oscars night, but the Science Fiction & Fantasy Writers Association just announced I've been nominated for a Nebula award for my work on Carmilla: The Eternal! Never in my wildest dreams did I ever think I would be in the running for this 😎 #SFWA
And the Nebula Finalists for the Andre Norton are... The Tower David Anaxagoras (Recorded Books) Gemini Rising Jonathan Brazee (Semper Fi Press) Wishing Well, Wishing Well Jubilee Cho (Atthis Arts) Sunrise on the Reaping Suzanne Collins (Scholastic) Into the Wild Magic Michelle Knudsen (Candlewick) Goblin Girl K.A. Mielke (self-published)
Congratulations to our Nebula Finalists for this year's Andre Norton Nebula Award for Middle Grade and Young Adult Fiction!
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And the Nebula Finalists for Game Writing are... Spire, Surge, and Sea Stewart C. Baker (Choice of Games) Clair Obscur: Expedition 33 Guillaume Broche & Jennifer Svedberg-Yen (Kepler Interactive), Developer: Sandfall Interactive, Sandfall S.A.S. Hollow Knight: Silksong Ari Gibson & William Pelen (Team Cherry)* Dispatch Ashley Jeffalone, Suzee Matson, Chris Rebbert, Chad Rhiness, & Pierre Shorette (AdHoc Studios) Hades II Greg Kasavin (Supergiant Games) Blue Prince Tonda Ros (Raw Fury, Developer: Dogubomb) *Provisional nomination; awaiting acceptance and response on LLM-use.
Congratulations to our Nebula Finalists for this year's Nebula Award for Best Game Writing!
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And the Nebula Finalists for the Ray Bradbury are... KPop Demon Hunters Danya Jimenez, Maggie Kang, & Hannah McMechan (Netflix)* Sinners Ryan Coogler (Warner Bros Pictures)* Severance "Chikhai Bardo", by Dan Erickson & Mark Friedman (Apple TV+)* Pluribus: Season One Vince Gilligan (Apple TV+)* Superman James Gunn (Warner Bros Pictures)* Murderbot: Season One Chris Weitz (Apple TV+)* *Provisional nomination; awaiting acceptance and response on LLM-use.
Congratulations to our Nebula Finalists for this year's Ray Bradbury Nebula Award for Outstanding Dramatic Presentation!
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And the Nebula Finalists for Best Comic are... Second Shift Kit Anderson (Avery Hill) Carmilla Volume 3: The Eternal Amy Chu (Berger) Helen of Wyndhorn Tom King (Dark Horse) Fishflies Jeff Lemire (Image) Mary Shelley's School for Monsters: The Killing Stone Jessica Maison (Wicked Tree) Strange Bedfellows Ariel Slamet Ries (HarperAlley) The Flip Side Jason Walz (Rocky Pond) The Stoneshore Register G. Willow Wilson (Berger)
Congratulations to our Nebula Finalists for the FIRST EVER Nebula Award for Best Comic!
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Many thanks! I'd be happy, though, if folks just started paying a little attention. As my mom always says, "If you don't vote, you can't complain!" #SFWA
Voting has begin in the 2026 @sfwa.org Board of Directors elections. Members can check out the various platform statements and ask questions via the #SFWA forums: www.sfwa.org/forums/
VP and CFO are unopposed but four folks are running for two Director At-Large positions (I am one of them).
Thinkpad X61 12 inch laptop
Pomera D250US clamshell writing device
Alphasmart Neo2 keyboard and LCD writing device
BYOK phone sized LCD writing device with EK68 Bluetooth keyboard
A few of my writing devices for an upcoming post on Writer Decks for SFWA's Planetside Magazine
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I have it on good authority that most #SFWA members leave their Nebula voting to the last minute ;) If you're one of them, I hope you'll keep my story, "For the Rectitude of Our Intentions," in mind in the Best Short Story category. You can read it here: calendaroffools.com/stories/for-...
I was just reminded this morning that my poem, “age of villains,” is eligible for the Nebula Award this year! If you’re a member of SFWA please consider nominating it. TODAY is the last day to nominate. Thank you for your consideration!
strangehorizons.com/wordpress/po...
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If you happen to be filling out your Nebula ballot tonight or tomorrow, I just wanted to squee one more time about a story I’m super proud of. “Six People to Revise You” is one of my favorite things I’ve written. #nebulas #sfwa
Nebula Ballots are due Sunday, March 1st. This is the the first year for the poetry and comics categories. If you have not submitted already, here is the link: www.sfwa.org/2025-nebula-....
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Friends in the #SFWA community: there are a few more days to submit Nebula nominations and I'd be grateful for your consideration of "Suspension." It's a flash piece and a very quick (and emotionally intense) read. Thank you! www.thecosmicbackground.com/stories/elis...
Y’all! :D Kris is an awesome voice in MG/YA!
Nebula Recommended Reading List! Queer awesomeness! Trees! #SFWA voter folk—I gesture to thee with both hands!
(you can also find the ebook there even if you are not a #SFWA voter)
my MG fantasy Goblin Girl is on the Nebulas Recommended Reading List because I have nice friends
if you are a #SFWA voter and like goblins, dragons, Ultros from FF6, queernormative fantasy worlds, political commentary for 12yos, or trees
you can find the ebook here:
kamielke.itch.io/goblin-girl
