How many Lammies do you have?

[reviews_and_ramblings]

Spurned by something I read on Greg Herren's livejournal (congratulations for his 10th nomination), I did go back and see who indeed had more nominations (and pay attention not awards, but nominations, I think that is a great achivement anyway given the competion).

Greg Herren's guess was on Ellen Hart and Michael Thomas Ford, and he was quite right.

Ellen Hart is top of the tops with 16 nominations:
The Cruel Ever After (2010)
The Mirror and the Mask (2009)
Sweet Poison (2008)
Mortal Groove (2007)
Night Vision (2006)
The Iron Girl (2005)
An Intimate Ghost (2004)
Immaculate Midnight (2002)
Merchant of Venus (2001)
Hunting the Witch (1999)
Wicked Games (1998)
Robber’s Wine (1996)
Faint Praise (1995)
Small Sacrifice (1994)
Stage Fright (1992)
Hallowed Murder (1989)

15 nominations for Alison Bechdel:
Fun Home (2006) - double nomination
Invasion of Dykes to Watch Out For (2005)
Dykes and Sundry Other Carbon-Based Life-Forms to Watch Out For (2003)
Post-Dykes to Watch Out For (2000)
The Indelible Alison Bechdel: Confessions, Comix, and Miscellaneous Dykes to Watch Out For (1998) - triple nomination
Split-Level Dykes to Watch Out For (1998)
Hot, Throbbing Dykes to Watch Out For (1997)
Unnatural Dykes to Watch Out For (1995)
Spawn of Dykes to Watch Out For (1993)
Dykes to Watch Out For: The Sequel (1992)
New, Improved Dykes To Watch Out For (1990)
More Dykes to Watch Out For (1988)

14 nominations for Lawrence Schimel:
I Like It Like That: True Tales of Gay Desire (2009)
First Person Queer (2007)
The Mammoth Book of New Gay Erotica (2007)
Two Boys in Love (2006)
Vacation in Ibiza (2003)
Found Tribe (2002) - double nomination
His Tongue (2001)
Kosher Meat (2000)
Mammoth Book of Gay Erotica (1998)
Things Invisible to See (1998)
PoMoSexuals: Challenging Assumptions About Gender and Sexuality (1997) - double nomination
The Drag Queen of Elfland (1997)

13 nominations for Karin Kallmaker and Michael Thomas Ford:
Karin Kallmaker:
Above Temptation (2010)
Stepping Stone (2009)
In Deep Waters 2: Cruising the Strip (2008)
The Kiss That Counted (2008)
Finders Keepers (2006)
18th & Castro (2006)
Just Like That (2005)
All the Wrong Places (2004) - double nomination
Once Upon a Dyke (2004)
Maybe Next Time (2003)
Seeds of Fire (2002)
Substitute for Love (2001)
Michael Thomas Ford:
The Road Home (2010)
What We Remember (2009)
Changing Tides (2007)
The Path of the Green Man (2005)
Masters of Midnight (2003)
My Big Fat Queer Life (2003)
Last Summer (2003)
My Little Book of Neuroses (2001)
It’s Not Mean if It’s True (2000)
That’s Mr. Faggot To You (1999)
Outspoken (1998)
Alec Baldwin Doesn’t Love Me and Other Trials of My Queer Life (1998)
The World Out There (1996)

11 nominations for Katherine V. Forrest and Joan Nestle:
Katherine V. Forrest:
Lesbian Pulp Fiction (2005)
Women of Mystery (2005)
Daughters of an Emerald Dusk (2005)
Hancock Park (2004)
Daughters of an Amber Noon (2002)
Sleeping Bones (1999)
Apparition Alley (1997)
Liberty Square (1996)
Erotic Naiad (1992)
Murder by Tradition (1991)
The Beverly Malibu (1989)
Joan Nestle:
GenderQueer (2002) - double nomination
Vintage Book of International Lesbian Fiction (1999)
A Fragile Union (1998) - double nomination
Women on Women 3 (1996)
Sister and Brother (1994)
Women On Women 2 (1993)
The Persistent Desire (1992) - double nomination
Women On Women (1990)

10 nominations for Claire McNab, Greg Herren, Mark Doty, Nicola Griffith and Sarah Schulman:
Claire McNab:
The Wombat Strategy (2004)
Accidental Murder (2002)
Death Understood (2000)
Murder Undercover (1999)
Past Due (1998)
Inner Circle (1996)
Body Guard (1994)
Cop Out (1991)
Death Down Under (1990)
Lessons In Murder (1988)
Greg Herren (also as Todd Gregory):
Vieux Carre Voodoo (2010)
Rough Trade: Dangerous Gay Erotica (2009)
Murder in the Garden District (2009)
Murder in the Rue Chartres (2007)
Love, Bourbon Street (2006)
Mardi Gras Mambo (2006)
Jackson Square Jazz (2004)
Shadows of the Night: Queer Tales of the Uncanny and Unusual (2004)
Bourbon Street Blues (2003)
Murder in the Rue Dauphine (2002)
Mark Doty:
Fire to Fire (2008)
Dog Years (2007)
School of the Arts (2005)
Source (2001)
Firebird: A Memoir (1999)
Sweet Machine (1998)
Heaven’s Coast (1996)
Atlantis (1995)
My Alexandria (1993)
Bethlehem in Broad Daylight (1991)
Nicola Griffith:
And Now We Are Going to Have a Party (2007)
With Her Body (2004)
Stay (2002)
Reading the Landscape: Horror (2001) - double nomination
The Blue Place (1998)
Bending the Landscape II (1998)
Bending the Landscape (1997)
Slow River (1995)
Ammonite (1992)
Sarah Schulman:
Ties That Bind: Familial Homophobia and Its Consequences (2009)
The Child (2007)
Stagestruck (1998) - double nomination
Shimmer (1998)
Rat Bohemia (1995)
My American History (1994)
Empathy (1992)
People In Trouble (1990)
After Delores (1988)

Comments

Lammie

[(Anonymous)]

Lammie nominations may be awesome but I have a winner from last year, that's more than enough for me

Mick

http://www.MykolaDementiuk.com
Lambda Literary Awards Winner 2009/Bisexual Fiction

[jgraeme2007.livejournal.com]

Nominations or finaling?

[elisa-rolle.livejournal.com]

Finalists. I'm not really sure how the Awards work, but I think authors/publishers submit books, a Jury read all of them a pick 3/6 finalists for each category and then there is the winner among the finalists. The above are finalists.

[jgraeme2007.livejournal.com]

I agree. There's nothing impressive in the nominations. In finaling...yes. Definitely something to be proud of.

[elisa-rolle.livejournal.com]

Actually it's more or less how the Rainbow Awards now work (at the third year I got into routine :-))

- first of all authors/publishers nominate/submit books
- second a Jury read all of them
- third I post the 5/10 finalists (it depends on the number of submissions in one category) and the 3 final positions are winners.

what I wanted to make the authors aware last year is that being among the 3-10 Honorable Mentions was already a great achievement, I had categories with more than 40 submissions.

BTW I just wrote to another author that I'm pretty "scared": I have more than 100 judges for a reading capacity of more than 250 books and I was good, I thought, last year I had 220 submissions... but at only 3 days into the submissions period I have already 70 submissions! I hope it's the initial rush and things will go slower in the following months.

[jgraeme2007.livejournal.com]

I hope it's the initial rush and things will go slower in the following months.

I'm sure it will! There's the initial rush and then there are the people like me trying to figure out if I have anything eligible. ;-)

[elisa-rolle.livejournal.com]

The Guidelines are so difficult to "translate"? And I thought I was simple and clear ;-)

[jgraeme2007.livejournal.com]

The Guidelines are so difficult to "translate"? And I thought I was simple and clear ;-)

I think it's probably more about my increasingly short attention span. I seem to have trouble focusing these days! ;-)

Awards

[(Anonymous)]

I'm sorry for misreading you, I was thinking about the Lambda Awards. So sorry.

Mick

http://www.MykolaDementiuk.com
Lambda Literary Awards Winner 2009/Bisexual Fiction

Re: Awards

[elisa-rolle.livejournal.com]

No you were right Mick, it was about the Lambda awards