The 2008 finalists for the Parsec Awards have been announced, and I couldn’t be happier. A lot of my best buds in the podcasting community have made it to the Final Five in their respective categories, including Tee Morris (Best Podcast Novel, Best Writing-Related Podcast), Christiana Ellis (Best Audio Drama, Best Comedy Podcast), and the mighty Mur Lafferty (Best Podcast Novel, Best Writing-Related Podcast, Best Novella). What really has me excited, though, is that Metamor City has made two appearances in the finals: Best Short Story (for “Huntress”) and Best Magazine or Anthology Podcast (for The Metamor City Podcast as a whole).

I was up against some bloody stiff competition this year, and I still am. Scott Sigler has three of the five finalists for Best Short Story, and the fourth (”Delve”) comes from Variant Frequencies, which has never yet been defeated in that category. I’m still hoping I can pull off an upset win, but in company like that, it truly is an honor just to be nominated. I can’t wait to see how everything turns out!

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