{"id":17,"date":"2017-07-25T07:18:00","date_gmt":"2017-07-25T14:18:00","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.curtiscchen.com\/journal\/2017\/07\/25\/waypoint-kangaroo-is-an-endeavour-award-finalist\/"},"modified":"2017-07-25T07:18:00","modified_gmt":"2017-07-25T14:18:00","slug":"waypoint-kangaroo-is-an-endeavour-award-finalist","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.curtiscchen.com\/journal\/2017\/07\/25\/waypoint-kangaroo-is-an-endeavour-award-finalist\/","title":{"rendered":"Waypoint Kangaroo is an Endeavour Award Finalist!"},"content":{"rendered":"<div style=\"clear: both; text-align: center;\"><a href=\"https:\/\/1.bp.blogspot.com\/-eoffN96bTXw\/WXa6G1kd5LI\/AAAAAAACDEc\/0yWoTGM0Cocw54wMVWzpae6U15HDjr8GACLcBGAs\/s1600\/2017%2BEndeavour%2BFINALIST%2B150.jpg\" style=\"margin-left: 1em; margin-right: 1em;\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" border=\"0\" src=\"https:\/\/1.bp.blogspot.com\/-eoffN96bTXw\/WXa6G1kd5LI\/AAAAAAACDEc\/0yWoTGM0Cocw54wMVWzpae6U15HDjr8GACLcBGAs\/s320\/2017%2BEndeavour%2BFINALIST%2B150.jpg\" width=\"320\" height=\"320\" data-original-width=\"600\" data-original-height=\"600\" \/><\/a><\/div>\n<p><a href=\"https:\/\/twitter.com\/curtiscchen\/status\/888659138410151937\">ICYMI last weekend<\/a>: my debut novel is one of this year&#8217;s finalists for the <a href=\"http:\/\/osfci.org\/endeavour\/\">Endeavour Award<\/a>, &#8220;for a distinguished SCIENCE FICTION or FANTASY BOOK written by a Pacific Northwest author or authors and published in the previous year.&#8221; Hearty congratulations to my fellow finalists:<\/p>\n<ul>\n<li><a href=\"http:\/\/www.amazon.com\/dp\/0765382814\/?tag=curtiscchensfree\"><strong>Arabella of Mars<\/strong><\/a> by David D. Levine, Tor Books<\/li>\n<li><a href=\"http:\/\/www.amazon.com\/dp\/1616962186\/?tag=curtiscchensfree\"><strong>Dreams of Distant Shores<\/strong><\/a> by Patricia McKillip, Tachyon<\/li>\n<li><a href=\"http:\/\/www.amazon.com\/dp\/1988274052\/?tag=curtiscchensfree\"><strong>Eocene Station<\/strong><\/a> by Dave Duncan, Five Rivers Publishing<\/li>\n<li><a href=\"http:\/\/www.amazon.com\/dp\/0062292072\/?tag=curtiscchensfree\"><strong>Lovecraft Country<\/strong><\/a> by Matt Ruff, Harper<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<p>More information from the press release over at <a href=\"http:\/\/file770.com\/?p=36490\">File770.com<\/a>.<\/p>\n<p>As with the <a href=\"http:\/\/hotsheet.snout.org\/2017\/05\/waypoint-kangaroo-is-locus-award.html\">Locus Awards<\/a>, I don&#8217;t expect to win at all, but it is truly an honor to have made the shortlist. Come see me be a gracious loser in person at <a href=\"http:\/\/39.orycon.org\/\">OryCon<\/a>!<\/p>\n<p><img decoding=\"async\" src=\"http:\/\/snout.org\/HotSheet\/CKL.jpg\" alt=\"Curtis\" title=\"Curtis\" border=\"0\" height=\"32\" \/><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>ICYMI last weekend: my debut novel is one of this year&#8217;s finalists for the Endeavour Award, &#8220;for a distinguished SCIENCE FICTION or FANTASY BOOK written by a Pacific Northwest author or authors and published in the previous year.&#8221; Hearty congratulations&#8230;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":"","_share_on_mastodon":"0"},"categories":[15,5,19],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-17","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-achievementunlocked","category-kangaroo","category-orycon"],"share_on_mastodon":{"url":"","error":""},"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.curtiscchen.com\/journal\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/17","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.curtiscchen.com\/journal\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.curtiscchen.com\/journal\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.curtiscchen.com\/journal\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.curtiscchen.com\/journal\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=17"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.curtiscchen.com\/journal\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/17\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.curtiscchen.com\/journal\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=17"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.curtiscchen.com\/journal\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=17"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.curtiscchen.com\/journal\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=17"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}