I’m told that The Best of Walter Jon Williams has started shipping after being delayed a few months by problems at the printer.  It was originally supposed to be out in time for the holidays, and when it was delayed to February I thought it might do very well for a Valentine’s present, but Valentine’s has slipped by, so now . . .

Begorrah!  ‘Tis after a fine gift to celebrate St. Paddy’s day, sure!

You can order it from your favorite bookstore or dealer, or find it at Barnes & Noble and Amazon

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Hey, wanna give me an award?

Nominations for the Hugo are open, though you have to be a member of either this year’s Worldcon or last year’s New Zealand world con in order to vote.

Nominations for the Nebula are also open, though only for the next 24 hours or so, and you can nominate only if you’re a SFWA member.

In any case, nominating me is easy, because I only had one piece out in 2020, my novel Fleet Elements.

While Fleet Elements is eligible to be nominated for Novel if you’re talking Nebula, it’s eligible for two Hugo awards.  It can be nominated for Novel, and as it’s the latest in a series, the series itself is eligible for Best Series.  So you can nominate the Praxis series (or Dread Empire’s Fall, and I’m sure the administrators will know what you’re talking about), with Fleet Elements as the most recent publication.

There.  Easy-peasy, Hugo breezy.  Vote as your conscience dictates, and I’m sure your conscience will want me on the ballot.

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We are now a mixed family.  I have the Pfizer shot, and Kathy’s got the Moderna.

This morning I was involved in a lengthy series of texts with a friend, and the home phone rang, with SOCORRO MEDICAL very large in the Caller ID slot, so I answered.

Was I Kathleen Hedges? they wanted to know.  I said I was not, but could take a message.

“Ask her if she would like a COVID vaccination,” the nice lady said.

“I think the answer to that would be, ‘Hell, yes!'” I replied.  They happened to have the vaccine right in the office, so we set an appointment for 2pm.

Coincidentally enough Kathy was in the other direction, in Albuquerque having a COVID test, since after our trip across country Kathy wanted to make sure she wasn’t infected before going out in public again.

So I drove Kathy to Socorro, and hung around in the parking lot for an hour while she filled out forms, waited in a series of offices, got her shot, then waited in yet another office for side effects, of which there were none that mattered.  On the drive home we stopped by a bird sanctuary, but its population was down to a pair of ducks and two snow geese.  Still, it was nice to get out in nature on a pleasant warm, sunny afternoon.

As for myself, I’m suffering no ill effects from yesterday’s jab.  Yesterday I was feeling kind of mopey and lethargic, but it’s hard to put that down to the vaccination, because I’m capable of feeling mopey and lethargic entirely on my own.

Happy vaccinations, everybody!

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