{"id":19598,"date":"2015-02-20T22:30:37","date_gmt":"2015-02-21T06:30:37","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/amptoons.com\/blog\/?p=19598"},"modified":"2015-02-20T22:46:21","modified_gmt":"2015-02-21T06:46:21","slug":"mandolins-novella-grand-jete-the-great-leap-nominated-for-a-nebula-award","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/amptoons.com\/blog\/?p=19598","title":{"rendered":"Mandolin&#8217;s Novella &#8220;Grand Jet\u00e9 (The Great Leap)&#8221; Nominated for a Nebula Award!"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><a href=\"https:\/\/amptoons.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2015\/02\/fotosjcmdotcom-dance-prints-721w-008.jpg\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" src=\"https:\/\/amptoons.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2015\/02\/fotosjcmdotcom-dance-prints-721w-008-590x464.jpg\" alt=\"fotosjcmdotcom-dance-prints-721w-008\" width=\"590\" height=\"464\" class=\"aligncenter size-medium wp-image-19599\" srcset=\"https:\/\/amptoons.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2015\/02\/fotosjcmdotcom-dance-prints-721w-008-590x464.jpg 590w, https:\/\/amptoons.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2015\/02\/fotosjcmdotcom-dance-prints-721w-008-1024x805.jpg 1024w, https:\/\/amptoons.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2015\/02\/fotosjcmdotcom-dance-prints-721w-008-940x739.jpg 940w, https:\/\/amptoons.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2015\/02\/fotosjcmdotcom-dance-prints-721w-008.jpg 1090w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 590px) 100vw, 590px\" \/><\/a><\/p>\n<p>Congratulations to Mandolin on being <a href=\"http:\/\/www.sfwa.org\/2015\/02\/2014-nebula-awards-nominees-announced\/\">nominated for a Nebula award<\/a>, for her 2014 novella <em>Grand Jet\u00e9 (The Great Leap)<\/em>, published under her meatworld name &#8220;Rachel Swirksy.&#8221; You can <a href=\"http:\/\/subterraneanpress.com\/magazine\/summer_2014\/grand_jet_the_great_leap_by_rachel_swirsky\">read the novella here<\/a>, and read Brit Mandelo&#8217;s review of it <a href=\"http:\/\/www.tor.com\/blogs\/2014\/09\/short-fiction-spotlight-the-last-of-subterranean-magazine-summer-14\">here<\/a>.<\/p>\n<p>Incredibly, this is Mandolin&#8217;s <em>sixth <\/em>consecutive Nebula nomination. She has won twice in the past, for her novella <a href=\"http:\/\/subterraneanpress.com\/magazine\/summer_2010\/fiction_the_lady_who_plucked_red_flowers_beneath_the_queens_window_by_rache\/\">The Lady Who Plucked Red Flowers beneath the Queen\u2019s Window<\/a>, and last year for her short story<a href=\"http:\/\/www.apex-magazine.com\/if-you-were-a-dinosaur-my-love\/\"> If You Were A Dinosaur, My Love<\/a>.<\/p>\n<p><em>(Photo by <a href=\"http:\/\/jarmandstudio.com\/\">Jesus Armand<\/a>.)<\/em><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Congratulations to Mandolin on being nominated for a Nebula award, for her 2014 novella Grand Jet\u00e9 (The Great Leap), published under her meatworld name &#8220;Rachel Swirksy.&#8221; You can read the novella here, and read Brit Mandelo&#8217;s review of it here. &hellip; <a href=\"https:\/\/amptoons.com\/blog\/?p=19598\">Continue reading <span class=\"meta-nav\">&rarr;<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[53],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-19598","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\/19598","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=19598"}],"version-history":[{"count":4,"href":"https:\/\/amptoons.com\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/19598\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":19601,"href":"https:\/\/amptoons.com\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/19598\/revisions\/19601"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/amptoons.com\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=19598"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/amptoons.com\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=19598"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/amptoons.com\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=19598"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}