Several Trek Alumni nominated for Scribe Award (KRAD,Mack,Cox,Swallow)

The International Association of Media Tie-In Writers has announced their list of nominees for their Scribe Award, among them several Trek Alumni:

David Mack, Greg Cox, Keith R.A. DeCandido and James Swallow

Congratualtions on the nominations David, Keith, Greg and James.

 

Re: Several Trek Alumni nominated for Scribe Award (KRAD,Mack,Cox,Swal

Is this something you have to belong to the IAMTW in order to get nominated for? Or that you have to submit your work to for consideration?

 

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http://iamtw.org/the-scribe-awards/how-to-enter-the-scribe-awards/

 

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Congrats to them all!

 

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Christopher,

As noted in the link Defcon provided, one has to submit works for Scribe Awards consideration. There is no submission fee, but one does have to send a copy to the organization as well as to the respective category's four judges. (I, for one, grew tired of sacrificing five of my author's copies, so I had the editors and PR department at S&S submit Disavowed on my behalf).

 

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When do the nominations open for next year?

 

Re: Several Trek Alumni nominated for Scribe Award (KRAD,Mack,Cox,Swal

Works can be submitted throughout the year. Any eligible work published with a 2015 copyright date can be submitted until the end of January 2016 (but they prefer to receive works as soon as is realistically feasible). If you have works out this year that you want to have considered for next year, send them in whenever you're ready.

 

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Note that you're only allowed to submit one book in each category. So if you wrote two or more "Speculative" tie-ins in one year, you'd have to pick which one to submit. Ditto if you wrote more than novelization or YA tie-in or whatever.

You can, however, submit more than one book if they're in different categories. (And each category has its own jury.)

In years gone by, I've been known to submit a CSI book in the mainstream category, a Trek novel in the speculative category, and a movie novelization in the adaptation category!

 

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No wonder you have the most nominations of all (14).

By the way, Keith has some interesting stats about the award on his blog.

 

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I have the most nominations? I had no idea, I swear!

 

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Because almost all my tie-ins have been speculative fiction, and because I don't write adaptations, I've previously never been able to submit more than one book per year for consideration. This year will be the first exception — I plan on submitting Star Trek: Seekers #3 – Long Shot in the Best Novel (Speculative) category, and 24: Rogue in the Best Novel (Original) category.

 

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Whereas, oddly enough, I've never actually won for a Star Trek book and two of my wins were in the General Fiction category: once for a CSI book and once for a LEVERAGE book

(The third was for a TERMINATOR novel.)

 

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Only one Star Trek novel has ever won the Scribes Best Novel, Speculative category — Terok Nor: Day of the Vipers by James Swallow.

 

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Congratulations to all the nominees!

Nice new avatar, David Mack. I've already pre-ordered your 24 novel and I'm excited to read how you handle one of Jack Bauer's days-from-hell.

 

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^ Gracias. I had a blast writing a Jack Bauer adventure — it's been one of the projects on my tie-in wish list for years. Now I just need to score an Indiana Jones novel and a James Bond novel, and maybe a Star Wars book.

 

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Congrats to all of the nominees. Sadly I haven't read any of those books yet.

 

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The book comes out on September 8, 2015 — but I encourage everyone to preorder copies for themselves and for friends; it will make a lovely holiday gift for the 24 fans in your life…

 

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Thanks!

Huh. I didn't realize that...

Ditto! It doesn't surprise me at all that you and I have very similar things on our author bucket lists, Dave...

 

Re: Several Trek Alumni nominated for Scribe Award (KRAD,Mack,Cox,Swal

Star Trek novels have been nominated for Scribes eight times. Two each: Mack, DeCandido. One each: Cox, Ward, Swallow, George. All were for Speculative-Original, with the exception of the 2013 awards which doesn't seem to have differentiated between Speculative and General.

Though of course most of the Fausts have gone to noted Trek authors - Diane Duane, A.C. Crispin, Peter David, Keith DeCandido, and Alan Dean Foster.