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[ellenkushner]

I'm an idiot.

This is what the Nebula Award actually looks like.

It's the Hugos that have the silver rocket ship (and lapel pin).

Damn. Now I really really want one.

(Thanks to klages for catching & kindly correcting my blooper.)

And thanks to everyone for your warm congratulations! It is lovely to have so many fine friends. Made my day.

Comments

[tpau]

the hugo. Finned for her pleasure :)

[lutin.livejournal.com]

I'm an idiot.

But an eloquent one! :D


& goodness!, Belated High 5s + for you and Delia :D

[phoebesmum.livejournal.com]

No lapel pin? I think you at least deserve a brooch.

[lferion]

Congrats! I looooooved PotS, and I am so jazzed you got a nomination!

[autopope.livejournal.com]

Damn. Now I really really want one.

Got one.

You really wouldn't want to fly anywhere with one in your luggage these days. Or be on the receiving end of a police raid, come to think of it.

(I know the fan who flew back from the US with Dave Langford's 2001 ration of Hugos on 9/10 of 2001 ...)

[shsilver.livejournal.com]

But the Nebula does come with a nifty lapel pin.

And I found that the easiest way to acquire a Nebula is to take it from someone else who has won one. Hmmm. Friend klages has one that's probably just sitting around gathering dust...Not that I'm suggested anything...

Hugo

[webcowgirl.livejournal.com]

Dammit. Now I want a Hugo too.

All I have to do is start writing ...

(And you, madam, all I can say is if this encourages you to write more, we'll all be winners ...)

[dyfferent.livejournal.com]

Ha, if she wins it, she'll probably get a dozen fanmade dichroic glass nebula spiral pins in the mail.

[rojomojo.livejournal.com]

as an ex-mechanic, now a water and wastewater operator, I am amazed at how artists bring joy to my life. My wife is a musician and a damned good writer (she doesn't believe it, but is working on a book and if I critically had to rate her I would rate her skill and word flow between the skill level and emotive power somewhere between Charles deLint's first and second short story collections. I don't remember names (math and kinetic learning are my languages), but Ivory and Horn was one. Don't know the other, but I digress.)

I envy the ability and when I hear let's say a Tori Amos song, I wish that I was the inspiration for that art and wonder how notes and chords in sequence can bring so much joy to anyone's heart. Then I realize some of my character traits or even phrases end up in my wife's work and smile as I did something.

But my original point was artists such as yourself can bring joy to untold many and it is my privilege to be able to read things that move my heart, bring magic to life and make heroic quests real. or make me cry. or encapsulate tricky emotional situations in words so I may be enriched in my inner life.

Don't ever take that for granted.

rojo

[ellen-kushner.livejournal.com]

LOL!!!

Re: Hugo

[ellen-kushner.livejournal.com]

"Will work for trinkets."

Pathetic, isn't it?

[tpau]

at noreascon whenever it was in boston they had them all on display... we wandered around and were stunned by how... special... they all looked.

[butterflyminds.livejournal.com]

Congrats on the nomination. Hope you win. And Delia Sherman wrote one of my favourite short stories which was republished in a volume of The Year's Best Fantasy and Horror. The Faery Coney-Catcher. Brilliant story. Good luck to her on her nomination this year too.

[ellen-kushner.livejournal.com]

Thanks! I hope you get the chance to pop over to "deliasherman" on LJ sometime and tell her so yourself. She loved writing that story.