{"id":20,"date":"2017-05-12T13:20:00","date_gmt":"2017-05-12T20:20:00","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.curtiscchen.com\/journal\/2017\/05\/12\/waypoint-kangaroo-is-a-locus-award-finalist\/"},"modified":"2017-05-12T13:20:00","modified_gmt":"2017-05-12T20:20:00","slug":"waypoint-kangaroo-is-a-locus-award-finalist","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.curtiscchen.com\/journal\/2017\/05\/12\/waypoint-kangaroo-is-a-locus-award-finalist\/","title":{"rendered":"Waypoint Kangaroo is a Locus Award Finalist!"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>This pleasant surprise appeared in my inbox today (email truncated):<\/p>\n<p><a href=\"http:\/\/www.locusmag.com\/News\/2017\/05\/2017-locus-awards-finalists\/\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" border=\"0\" src=\"https:\/\/1.bp.blogspot.com\/-DSIQg_6l5ew\/WRYklSi2-KI\/AAAAAAACA2U\/M0EhwcU6M-YHMoPbIxZFS-KczRO4sCmHACLcB\/s400\/wk-locus-finalist.png\" width=\"400\" height=\"225\" \/><br \/><small>http:\/\/www.locusmag.com\/News\/2017\/05\/2017-locus-awards-finalists\/<\/small><\/a><\/p>\n<p>I&#8217;m flattered that enough people voted for <a href=\"http:\/\/www.amazon.com\/dp\/B0191KRCR8\/?tag=curtiscchensfree\"><strong>Waypoint Kangaroo<\/strong><\/a> to put it in the top ten for the <b>first novel<\/b> category, and I&#8217;m honored to be listed alongside these outstanding works:<\/p>\n<ul>\n<li><a href=\"http:\/\/www.amazon.com\/dp\/0399176772\/?tag=curtiscchensfree\"><strong>The Reader<\/strong><\/a>, Traci Chee (Putnam)<\/li>\n<li><a href=\"http:\/\/www.amazon.com\/dp\/1250085470\/?tag=curtiscchensfree\"><strong>The Star-Touched Queen<\/strong><\/a>, Roshani Chokshi (St. Martin\u2019s)<\/li>\n<li><a href=\"http:\/\/www.amazon.com\/dp\/0062380761\/?tag=curtiscchensfree\"><strong>The Girl from Everywhere<\/strong><\/a>, Heidi Heilig (Greenwillow; Hot Key)<\/li>\n<li><a href=\"http:\/\/www.amazon.com\/dp\/1481451162\/?tag=curtiscchensfree\"><strong>Roses and Rot<\/strong><\/a>, Kat Howard (Saga)<\/li>\n<li><a href=\"http:\/\/www.amazon.com\/dp\/1781084491\/?tag=curtiscchensfree\"><strong>Ninefox Gambit<\/strong><\/a>, Yoon Ha Lee (Solaris US; Solaris UK)<\/li>\n<li><a href=\"http:\/\/www.amazon.com\/dp\/0765382814\/?tag=curtiscchensfree\"><strong>Arabella of Mars<\/strong><\/a>, David D. Levine (Tor)<\/li>\n<li><a href=\"http:\/\/www.amazon.com\/dp\/0765385155\/?tag=curtiscchensfree\"><strong>Infomocracy<\/strong><\/a>, Malka Older (Tor.com Publishing)<\/li>\n<li><a href=\"http:\/\/www.amazon.com\/dp\/076533805X\/?tag=curtiscchensfree\"><strong>Everfair<\/strong><\/a>, Nisi Shawl (Tor)<\/li>\n<li><a href=\"http:\/\/www.amazon.com\/dp\/1784294020\/?tag=curtiscchensfree\"><strong>Vigil<\/strong><\/a>, Angela Slatter (Jo Fletcher)<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<p>The <a href=\"http:\/\/locusmag.com\/Magazine\/2017LocusAwardsAd.html\">Locus Awards Weekend<\/a> is open to all (tickets are $60 each), and includes readings and workshops with the likes of <b>Connie Willis<\/b> and <b>Carrie Vaughn<\/b>. Will I see you in Seattle next month? Leave a comment and let me know!<\/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>This pleasant surprise appeared in my inbox today (email truncated): http:\/\/www.locusmag.com\/News\/2017\/05\/2017-locus-awards-finalists\/ I&#8217;m flattered that enough people voted for Waypoint Kangaroo to put it in the top ten for the first novel category, and I&#8217;m honored to be listed alongside these&#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":[15,5,11,9],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-20","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-achievementunlocked","category-kangaroo","category-publishing","category-writing"],"share_on_mastodon":{"url":"","error":""},"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.curtiscchen.com\/journal\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/20","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=20"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.curtiscchen.com\/journal\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/20\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.curtiscchen.com\/journal\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=20"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.curtiscchen.com\/journal\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=20"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.curtiscchen.com\/journal\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=20"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}