The unspoken speaking

[womzilla]

I strongly feel that, if one wishes to respect an award, the least one can do in response to the honor of being nominated for it is to prepare oneself against the possibility that one will actually win it. Here's the statement I prepared on the chance we actually won the 2009 Hugo Award for Best Semiprozine, which of course we didn't:

I would like to take this occasion to cite, but not quote, our guest of honor. [For the home audience: Go here and search for "I won a Hugo!"]

That said, thanks are due to all of the following:

• My co-winners, and most particularly Kris Dikeman, associate managing editor, who could not be present tonight and without whom the magazine would look precisely like it was laid out by orangutans;


• Our Work Weekend staff, without whom the issue would look remarkably like 24 blank pages: Alex Donald, Ann Crimmins, Eugene Reynolds, and Jennifer Gunnell;


• Our Weekly Meeting Krew: Avram Grumer, Lisa Padol, Chris Quinones, Joshua Kronengold, and Aubrey Lynch, without whom the issue would never actually leave our doors;


• Our Remote-Control Ace Poorfeeding team: Anne Zanoni and my co-husband Arthur D. Hlavaty, who probably should have gone over this statement;


• and eternal thanks to Tor Books for allowing us use of their conference room for over fifteen years now.


• Thanks to my beloved wife, Bernadette Bosky, for not killing me for going off to join the SF Reserves;

and most of all,

• Thanks to my father John and my brother Tim, for infecting me with SF in the first place. I love you all.

Man, this is one great-looking Hugo.

(That last bit was added after the preview of the Hugo. Man, it is.)

Comments

[ookpik.livejournal.com]

Woohoo! Congratulations!

[womzilla.livejournal.com]

I fear my subjunctives were unclear--we didn't win. But it is an honor to be nominated, so I did the award the honor of treating it seriously by writing an acceptance statement.

[ookpik.livejournal.com]

Oops! I'm sorry; yes, I did read it as a win. (Might be my lack of sleep rather than your subjunctives.) Well, congratulations on the nomination in any case.

[washa-way.livejournal.com]

Well-said. I look forward to hearing the updated version someday soon.