Happy New Year everyone! Glad to be with you again in 2024. I hope you had a wonderful holiday season and that the new year brings you health, wealth and prosperity!

I should have done this ages ago, but I was ill over the holiday season, so this is my very late post about my eligibility for speculative fiction awards this year.

I had a banner year in 2023 re my work for 2022, and I was so grateful for that. My first time being nominated for a Nebula and Locus award, and my second time being nominated for the Ignyte. This year, I sold two stories. They are stories of my heart, but as I wanted to make things that brought joy and humanity in a harsh world, they have a lot of humour.

“Tantie Merle and the Farmhand 4200” is a science fiction short story (6861 words) about a lonely old woman who gets a bot to solve her angry goat problem. It was published in Issue 53 of Uncanny Magazine, the July/August 2023 edition. My first sale to Uncanny, it is written in the voice of my people, for my people.

My second story last year was “Mid-Earth Removals Limited”, a fantasy story (3600 words), also set in Trinidad and Tobago, about a very determined single mother, a very lost minion of the Dark Lord and how resilient one has to be it is to deal with every day problems, especially when there are added dragons, among other things. It was the free story for Sunday Morning Transport on November 5 2023, and my first sale to this amazing venue as well. You can click on the links to read.

Both stories are eligible for all the usual suspects, including the Hugo, Locus, Nebula, Sturgeon, BSFA, WFA, Ignyte, and other awards. If you enjoyed either of them, I would greatly appreciate your votes.

Thank you for reading and let’s have a great year together!