I haven't nominated for the Ditmars yet. I'm surrounded by all the buzz and I believe in the awards and yet I can't make myself sit down and do my own noms ( Read more... )

kathynlinge has a goodly list of eligible art works for your consideration for Ditmar nominations. Go thee thither and click around and see what happened last year artwise!


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Pimping Aussie Short Stories today. Here's the collective Not if You Were the Last Short Story on Earth's best of 2008 short story reading list ( Read more... )

Twelfth Planet Press is offering an electronic copy of our near future anthology 2012 free to anyone who is eligible to nominate in the Ditmars this year ( Read more... )

Jonathan Strahan is offering electronic copies of Starry Rift and Eclipse 2 for those eligible to nominate and vote in the Ditmars. Check it out here.

That's a pretty awesome offer! Definitely worth checking out!!

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Over at Margo Lanagan's blog, she is offering ecopies of the rest of her Ditmar eligible short stories for consideration of Ditmar nominations. here * 'The Goosle' from The Del Rey Book of SF and Fantasy (ed. Ellen Datlow ( Read more... )

Ellen Datlow is currently offering ecopies of the Ditmar eligible works from her Del Rey Book of SF & F. Trust me when I tell you that you really really want to take her up on this offer ( Read more... )

Collections of eligible works about the place:

Ben's listing novella/novelettes eligible here

Ben also has eligible cover art here

benpayne and cassiphone have both listed their Aussie Year's Best shortlists from last year.

I had a couple of lists here:

Horror Novels and SF novels here

And thomasbull has been leaving comments here for fan art and fan production.


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The Horror Novels:

Keri Arthur Darkest Kiss HACHETTE LIVRE AUSTRALIA
Nathan Burrage Fivefold RANDOM HOUSE AUSTRALIA
Jack Dann The Economy of Light PS PUBLISHING (GREAT BRITAIN)
Anthony Eaton Into White Silence WOOLSHED PRESS, AN IMPRINT OF RANDOM HOUSE AUSTRALIA
John Ezzy Unnatural Journeys Part One IUNIVERSE/SELF-PUBLISHED
Nick Gadd ( Read more... )

Okay, so I think this is often the hardest category to feel qualified to vote in simply because ... novels are long and there are often a lot that are eligible in each year. And only a few of us could ever get the voting ballot when it comes out and then go and read the selection in order to feel informed enough to vote ( Read more... )