Please Consider Ann VanderMeer, Best Editor, for the Hugos
As you fill out your Hugo ballot this year, I'd just like to put in a plug for my wife, Ann VanderMeer, for Best Editor (Short Form).What did she accomplish as an editor in 2011?---The Weird: A Compendium of Strange and Dark Stories (Atlantic), a 750,000-word, 100-year overview of weird fiction covering everyone from Kafka to Ben Okri, Shirley Jackson to Michael Chabon, Robert Bloch to Kelly Link, and 109 more. It's as far as we know the largest collection of this kind in a single volume and highly lauded by The Guardian and Times Literary Supplement, among others.---The Thackery T. Lambshead Cabinet of Curiosities (HarperVoyager), an original anthology with contributors including Michael Moorcock, Lev Grossman, Holly Black, Jeffrey Ford, Charles Yu, Alan Moore, Naomi Novik, Tad Williams, and many more. It also included over 70 original illustrations from the likes of Mike Mignola and Jan Svankmajer.---ODD? (Cheeky Frawg), an e-book only anthology of reprints and originals, ranging from Jeffrey Ford and Nalo Hopkinson to Hiromi Goto and Amos Tutuola.---Two months of Weirdfictionreview.com, which in November and December of 2011 published over 90 pieces of nonfiction and fiction from China Mieville, Thomas Ligotti, Tanith Lee, and many others. The full list for last year can be found here.On all of these projects, I co-edited, but Ann also edited solo:--Two issues of Weird Tales magazine, in addition to commissioning several "one-minute weird tales" video projects and exclusive online fiction.She would have edited four in 2011 if not for the regime change.I would much prefer it that everyone who liked these projects and wants to reward the effort that went into them---The Weird alone is like editing five or six anthologies---vote for Ann solo. I've seen first-hand just how much effort she's put into all of these projects.