To BASFA members,
Mr. Lyons recently contacted me to continue an earlier
email discussion of his novel "Machina," and asked me
to forward it to the BASFA membership for
consideration.
-Alison
> Dear Alison,
>
> I wanted to clarify that I am in no way attempting
> to mislead anyone. My
> publisher nominated Machina to the judges of the
> Philip K. Dick Award, but
> the judges did not choose to nominate the novel in
> their final list of
> nimonees.
>
> And the Tiptree award has an online nomination
> process. My friends,
> fans, and family have nominated Machina for the
> award.
>
> I'm not a big-name bay Area author I'm a
> small-time author writing
> odd, at times unclassifiable work. I hope this all
> makes clear that I wasn't
> trying to mislead anyone, and explains what I mean
> by citing those
> nominations. There are tons of writers out there,
> particularly in the
> smaller presses, doing our best to promote ourselves
> in a sea of speculative
> fiction. Award nominations don't hurt.
>
> All Best,
>
> Jonathan
>
>
>
> I thought it was rather odd that there would be a
> big name Bay Area author
> that I hadn't heard about, so I did some checking.
> Mr. Lyons book does not
> appear in the nomination lists for either the PKD
> Award or the Spectrum
> Award in any year. And it certainly hasn't been
> nominated for the Tiptree
> because there is no nomination process for that
> award.
>
> Love 'n' hugs,
>
> Cheryl
>
>
>
>
>
>
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