World Fantasy Award Nominations are currently open until May 31st.

Those who were members of the Wolrd Fantasy Convention in 2011, 2012, or are registered for WFC 2013 are eligible to nominate, although the award itself if curated, ie there is a judging panel.

All nominated material must have been published in 2012 or have a 2012 cover date. Only living persons may be nominated.

For those who are eligible to vote—like me, yay!—the ballot is right here:
http://www.wfc2013.org/wfballot01.html

In terms of books that are eligible for nomination:

USA

UK/AUS/NZ

Well, first up, my very own GATHERING OF THE LOST (Harper Voyager USA: Orbit, UK/AU/NZ) is eligible  in the “Novel” category: w00t!

Other eligible books that have been featured on this blog in the past year (in alphabetical order by author’s surname) include:

• Fredrik Brounéous for The Prince of Soul and The Lighthouse
• Kristin Cashore for Bitterblue
• Elspeth Cooper for Trinity Rising
• Stina Leicht for And Blue Skies from Pain 
• John R Fultz for Seven Princes
• Robin Hobb for City of Dragons
• Juliet Marillier for Shadowfell; you can also read my interview with Juliet here.
• Jo Spurrier for Winter be My Shield
• Courtney Schafer for The Tainted City
• Laini Taylor for Days of Blood and Starlight

Not bad going eh, for one little blog. 😉