by Terri
Image shows Chibi Terri holding a sign that says “Has Opinions (and shares them).” She looks immensely pleased with herself.
Wow. Was 2019 ever a year. I spent it (and a decent chunk of 2018) living abroad for the first time since 2004. I shepherded my business into its third year of life. I attended the Hugo Awards for the first time in a professional capacity, rather than a volunteer one. I turned parasocial colleagues into people I count as friends. I fell headfirst into becoming a not so Secret Master of Fandom. I launched and edited a whole zine in protest to a single decision.
And as the year came to a close, I realized something. While I want to reform the Hugo Awards criteria for artists from the ground up (in part to acknowledge that creative partnerships can exist when only one half does the Actual Art), I am Hugo Eligible in my own right. Because 2019 is the year that my Twitter feed started reaching a wider voice. And a lot of what I post there is writing of a SF/F nature.
So please consider my behind eligible for the Best Fan Writer Hugo Award this year. You can find my most popular threads by either looking me up as @crewgrrl on Twitter or by heading over to this blog (to which this post is cross-posted).
In addition, the zine I co-launched and edited is eligible for Best Related Work. The Very Official Dead Dog Art Zine doesn’t have enough issues to be Best Fanzine eligible, but as a commentary on the Hugo Awards, it certainly is new content that relates to the SF/F world. Ariela Housman and Terri Ash should both be credited as the editorial team.