The podcast of Beautiful Red was nominated for a Parsec Award for Best Speculative Fiction Story (Novella Form), and I've just found out that it is a finalist. I am in amazing company - works by Timothy Callahan, Patrick McLean, Mur Lafferty and Scott Sigler are also nominated in this category. I couldn't be happier to be thought of in the same category as these authors. The Parsec Awards celebrate excellence in speculative fiction podcasting, and will be held at the Dragon*Con convention in a few days. I won't be able to attend, given that I'm only a few weeks out from departing on a long world sailing trip, but my thoughts and well-wishes go out to all the nominees.