Exciting news: it’s Hugo season once again! Reactor announced the nominees earlier this week, and 6 JABberwocky clients are finalists for this year’s awards.

Best Series: The Stormlight Archive by Brandon Sanderson. Its highly-anticipated fifth and final installment, Wind and Truth, came out in December 2024 to wide acclaim and was an instant #1 New York Times and USA Today bestseller.

Astounding Award for Best New Writer: Bethany Jacobs, whose debut space opera series, the Kindom Trilogy, will see its third book coming out this November. The first book in the series, These Burning Stars, was the winner of the 2024 Philip K. Dick award.

Best Poem: “A War of Words” by Marie Brennan. Best known for her Memoirs of Lady Trent historical fantasy series (starting with A Natural History of Dragons) and her Rook and Rose fatasy adventure series (as half of the writing duo M.A. Carrick), Marie Brennan is also a gifted poet. Congrats!

Best Fancast: Eight Days of Diana Wynne Jones, presented by Emily Tesh and Rebecca Fraimow. While we mostly work with Rebecca Fraimow’s books—including the breathtaking Lady Eve’s Last Con, a sci-fi heist with a hearty splash of sapphic romance—we loved this podcast that, in its first season, presented each of DWJ’s books of the 70s.

Best Editor, Short Form: Neil Clarke, who is Publisher and Editor-In-Chief at the incomparable Clarkesworld Magazine. Neil has won Best Editor Short form three times before, and since its launch in 2006, Clarkesworld has also been honored with Hugo, World Fantasy, and British Fantasy Awards. Neil is also the editor of the annual Best Science Fiction of the Year anthologies, now in their seventh year. 

Best Editor. Short Form AND Best Semiprozine: Lynne M. Thomas and Michael Damian Thomas, publishers and editors-in-chief of Uncanny Magazine, are finalists both as editors and for the magazine. Uncanny‘s managing editor is Monte Lin; poetry editor is Betsy Aoki; and podcast producers are Erika Ensign and Steven Schapansky. Uncanny has won the Best Semiprozine Award eight times since 2016. Lynne and Michael were also awarded with the Hugo for Best Editor, Short Form in 2018.

Huge congratulations to all of our Hugo finalists!