Award Eligibility Post

Most years, I aspire (but often don't manage) to have at least one item that would hypothetically be eligible for award nominations of some sort. My collection Skin-Singer is this year's publication, of which the novelette "Hide-bound" is the only previously unpublished work. (I have submitted the collection for consideration for the Golden Crown awards, as it has a category for collections or anthologies.)

"Hide-bound" is a fantasy novelette and thus could be nominated, e.g., for the relevant Hugo Award or Nebula Award categories, if readers considered it worthy.

I'm aware that these days works in the short story and novelette range are far more likely to be nominated if they are available for free online in some fashion. I will be making it available to SFWA members in the relevant forum for Nebula consideration. But since the story is (in theory) the main driver for enticing people to buy the collection, I don't see my way to making it freely available to the general public at this time. On the other hand, the ebook of the collection is only $2.99. You can't even get a coffee for that.