{"id":13356,"date":"2011-05-27T18:34:33","date_gmt":"2011-05-28T01:34:33","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.amptoons.com\/blog\/?p=13356"},"modified":"2011-05-27T18:34:33","modified_gmt":"2011-05-28T01:34:33","slug":"mandolin-quoted-in-the-washington-post","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/amptoons.com\/blog\/?p=13356","title":{"rendered":"Mandolin Quoted in the Washington Post"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><a href=\"http:\/\/www.washingtonpost.com\/lifestyle\/style\/science-fiction-and-fantasy-writers-of-america-hold-annual-convention\/2011\/05\/21\/AF4vkK9G_story.html\">A <em>Washington Post<\/em> article<\/a> about the Nebula Awards opens by quoting the joke Rachel (aka Mandolin) told in her acceptance speech:<\/p>\n<blockquote><p>Before Rachel Swirsky won the Nebula award for best novella Saturday, she went to an authors\u2019 reception and learned some tips from veterans of the science fiction awards circuit.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cApparently the Hugo makes a great paper-towel holder,\u201d Swirsky says. \u201cAnd if you put a sock over the World Fantasy Award,\u201d it looks like a profile of Jacques Cousteau. But what to do with a Nebula \u2014 a heavy glass block \u2014 no one knew. And so Swirsky, a first-time author whose novella, <a href=\"http:\/\/subterraneanpress.com\/index.php\/magazine\/summer-2010\/fiction-the-lady-who-plucked-red-flowers-beneath-the-queens-window-by-rachel-swirsky\/\">&#8220;The Lady Who Plucked Red Flowers Beneath the Queen\u2019s Window,&#8221; <\/a>recounts the weary adventures of a resurrected magician, made a vow in her acceptance speech at the Washington Hilton: <\/p>\n<p>\u201cI will figure out\u201d what to do with a Nebula. [&#8230;]<\/p>\n<p>Someone asks Connie Willis \u2014 who has won seven previous Nebu\u00adlas in various categories \u2014 whether she has any advice for Swirsky\u2019s quest to find an alternative use for the award.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cIf you got enough of them, you could use them like Legos,\u201d says Willis doubtfully, weighing her solid, rectangular trophy in her hands. \u201cBut you would really need an awful lot.\u201d<\/p><\/blockquote>\n<p>Incidentally, &#8220;first-time author&#8221; Mandolin has had approximately fifty stories and poems published so far, if I recall correctly.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>A Washington Post article about the Nebula Awards opens by quoting the joke Rachel (aka Mandolin) told in her acceptance speech: Before Rachel Swirsky won the Nebula award for best novella Saturday, she went to an authors\u2019 reception and learned &hellip; <a href=\"https:\/\/amptoons.com\/blog\/?p=13356\">Continue reading <span class=\"meta-nav\">&rarr;<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[53],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-13356","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-mandolins-fiction-poems"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/amptoons.com\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/13356","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/amptoons.com\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/amptoons.com\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/amptoons.com\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/amptoons.com\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=13356"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/amptoons.com\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/13356\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":13357,"href":"https:\/\/amptoons.com\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/13356\/revisions\/13357"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/amptoons.com\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=13356"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/amptoons.com\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=13356"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/amptoons.com\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=13356"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}