V. asked yesterday:
Mod R, could you perhaps organize an eligibility post of Andrews 2025 works that could be nominated for the upcoming award season (Nebula, Hugos, etc) – like The Inheritance? I have my little list, but I always worry that I’m forgetting something or that I’ve gotten the category wrong (novel length? novella?), and the season is upon us. Others might find it useful too.
Thank you so much for your question, V! I will try my best, but if I’ve misunderstood something or missed a relevant award, please feel free to correct me or add to the list in the comments.
The eligible House Andrews publication for the 2025 awards is The Inheritance (Breach Wars book 1).
The Inheritance is:
- a novel
- the genre is Sci-Fi/Fantasy
- first in a new series
- released in ebook, print and audio formats
It is also a self-published work, but as far as I’ve been able to tell, that does not influence whether it can be nominated or not in most cases.
For those of you keeping score, these length boundaries are somewhat disputed, but the generally accepted demarcations are: a short story is under 7,500 words; a novelette runs 7,500–17,500 words; a novella registers between 17,500–40,000 words; and finally a novel is 40,000+ words. At 75,000, the Inheritance is firmly in novel territory.
Major Awards in Bookworld that Inheritance qualifies for:
Presented by the Science Fiction and Fantasy Writers Association (SFWA).
How to nominate and vote for The Inheritance: Nebulas are nominated and juried by SFWA members (other authors).
Presented by the World Science Fiction Convention (Worldcon), it is a fan-driven account.
How to nominate and vote for The Inheritance: You are eligible to nominate for the Hugo Awards if you became a member of LAcon V by January 31, 2026, or were a member of the Seattle Worldcon 2025. The final ballot will be announced in April, and only members of LAcon V will be able to vote for the winners in each category – according to Hugos website.
Presented at Dragon Con, entirely fan voted.
For more, like the Goodreads Choice Awards and the Locus lists, we will probably have to w*it until This Kingdom will Not Kill Me is published this year (only 47 days left, y’all!).
A final note from the heart:
In my experience working with Ilona and Gordon for years and years, they do not operate with awards strategy spreadsheets. Write the book, release the book, and go back to writing the next one – that’s always been the rhythm.
I don’t often speak for House Andrews, but in this I am certain: the Horde is the only award that truly matters. As long as we all read the books, keep getting passionate about them and continue showing up in our patented fluffy and (sometimes slightly) scary Horde way, we are enough. And we are beloved.
Interesting as always. Thanks!
Always first in our hearts!
This post made me think what would our events be if we had BDH Olympics..gold medal for reading absolutely everything 😊
And rereading everything 😉
especially rereading right after you just finished reading the book? 🤣🤣🤣
It me.
This is me. and I only do this for a few authors.
Not sure how often I’ve ALL the IA series, but it’s several times. 😃😀
I think I am on my tenth reread of The Inheritance. I alternate between the printed version and the ebook. I love paper books, but the wonderful illustrations are in black and white. So, I go next with the ebook because not only can I see the art in color, I can blow each picture up and savor all the outstanding details Candice Slater put into each masterpiece.
I keep going to Ms Slater’s website in hopes that she will offer colored prints of each illustration that I can slip between the pages of my printed book! Speaking of awards, I would hope she would nominated for best artwork. For heavens sake, she obviously READ the whole book!!!! Wouldn’t it be awesome if Ilona, Gordon, AND Candice all won Hugos and Nebulas!?
Candice’s other artwork is amazing, too. maybe she can get a book published of all her work? I always buy those books by sci-fi artists.
Love to the Horde! Thank goodness we have an appreciative home.
ah I thought this was going to be a like which book character would get an oscar the best actor award etc. the old who’d get best kiss and so on. That would be fun!
Fantastic Idea for a vote! House Andrews’ Oympic Games or Oscars! Nominate candidates for Best Kiss, Best Quip, Best Couple, Best Action etc then vote on gold/silver/bronze or just winner of the category!! Pretty please??🙏
I nominate Andrea for best supporting character!
I like Luther! (“That’s DR. Crackpot to you!”)
While I love Andrea, I have to nominate Helen for best supporting character. All hail “ripper cushions”! 😄
There’s so many categories that we could do! This is a really fun idea (but also sounds like a lot of work for Mod R, sorry!) 🤞🏻🥳
Yes yes yes yes and yes!!!!!
I love this idea! Let’s do it! We can help!
“Best use of a non weapon in an offensive capacity”? I nominate Helen and the coffee mug!
“Worst use of language to resolve a conflict”? Not sure, but somebody’s got to have the perfect Kate quote here
“Most homecoming queen behavior”? Who would win, between Bestata and Adam Pierce?
Speaking of Adam, “Best t-shirt”?
I am so thankful for Ilona Andrews and all of their team! Y’all’s world’s are my haven.
❤️ Much wuv, ’tis the season!
+1000
Thank you!
we are definitely beloved and House Andrews is beloved by us!
I need a mug that says “we are enough, we are beloved. Fluffy and (sometimes slightly) scary way, The Book Devouring Horde.”
Is there a BDH mug? Don’t think I saw one in the store
I’m seconding this
Yes, a completion Mug !
House Andrews: Beloved by (slightly) Evil Things
Ever so slightly 😀
Or “… Beloved by fluffy and (slightly) scary things”
As a proud member of the BDH, I swear to always be Chalant about House Andrews books. LOL
I want a BDH “Finished Everything” trophy! I am currently re-re-rereading Catalina’s series while we wait for Maggie. Please send more books!
+1. LOVED Beast Business. I nominate Leon for best supporting character with potential for own novella.
Me too! Maybe as a tote bag to carry all the books.
The Horde is the *only* award that matters – we love you too!
Aww, all the love back. We’ll even read and re-read the grocery list if we don’t have anything else to do.
As another proud member of the Horde, I’m doing a re-read (for the umpteenth time), Magic Slays. I’m to the part where Julie and Ascanio meet for the first time. Oh boy. 😂❤️
lol, this is one of my favorite scenes of all HA scenes… poor little bouda got tied up LMAO
Poor little Bouda got taken down by a human girl!
He needs his teddy and bottle. 🤣🤣🤣🤣🤣
Interesting! I went and checked out the Dragon Awards…
The form on the Dragon Con website to submit a book for the awards describes a Science Fiction novel as “containing and based upon scientific or science and engineering premises or technology” and a Fantasy novel as “containing and based upon magic, gods, demons, ghosts, paranormal events, or mythic creatures”. But a novel can only be nominated for 1 category, otherwise the nominations are cancelled. I have to say, I feel like it could belong to both categories, leaning a bit more towards Sci-Fi but I’m not sure. So, which one should I nominate it for???
I forgot to actually say: I’m talking about The Inheritance lol
I think you’re right and it’s more Sci-Fi 🙂
(Whew!!!!) I nominated The Inheritance in the category of Sci Fi without really thinking too much about it or asking first…I’m glad it seems like that was probably right.
I’m a tiny bit discombobulated today. I went to my weekly volunteer ‘job’ reading at a nursery school today, and because several of the other volunteers didn’t show up, I read to five littles instead of only two. It was fun, but VERY chaotic and VERY loud, and my brain is sooooooo done for the day! 😂
I nominated The Inheritance for best sci-fi novel and Candice Slater for best cover illustration (ebook and print) at Dragon Con.
I hope that works
Very curious why people are leaning towards sci-fi. Maggie enters a fantasy book world makes Inheritance squarely fantasy imo
Obviously a brain fart mixing up book names 😂
Hehe, it happens to the best of us!
“we are enough. And we are beloved.”
*sniff* *blub*
*offers tissues and back pats*
Thank you so, so, so much for this Mod R! I know House Andrews doesn’t write for awards glory, so I doubly appreciate your taking the time to confirm the Inheritance eligibility. And as an avid reader and member of the BDH, I also love the idea of helping ensure books I love and appreciate are part of the awards season conversation. 🙂
And also, *happy grins* We are indeed a beloved horde. 🙂
I agree. We’re so beloved that the Horde gets an acknowledgement in This Kingdom Will Not Kill Me. 😍🥰❤️
Mod R should do a set of award polls for the beloved and slightly scary BDH! It would keep up busy and out of the author’s hair…..
0: ) Just sayin’ 0: )
You nominate, I’ll poll it 😀
I try to be eloquent ( and chalant!) in my comments, but after reading this I have only a few words for HA: Joy, Wonder, Loyalty, and totally enthusiastic Love for them and their books.BDH!BDH! BDH! 😃
Even with all the different controversies over the years, how cool would it be to win a Hugo? I mean, it’s a Hugo. . .
I used be on the awards like they were the Oscars, except I never had any interest in the Oscars.
But then I grew older and my interests widened and I still loved my first love SF, but I saw it’s fandom could be a bit . . . narrow minded at times, and then there were all the other issues, but damn, a Hugo would still be a Hugo.
If you’re a Hugo finalist I am so buying the pb with a sticker on! (Still got my LMB Mirror Dance pb with a sticker on my shelves)
Vote Andrews!
You know we are going to need the BDH finished everything award as a piece of merch now right. No seriously. We need a pretty trophy just like the picture to display on our book shelves and show our devotion to House Andrews.
Maybe a ‘Finished Everything’ mug? Or tshirt? Was there a magnet already?
We r a beloved Horde. I do worry that our vast love for HA could someday b like when Catalina uses her powers and ppl’s love turns scary dangerous for her.
Perhaps now is a good time to practice being a fluffy Horde? Ok, everyone-maximum fluffiness! Hold it…hold it…relax and reread. Ok, good work, y’all! Let’s all try to keep doing daily fluffiness training. We know we need to b ready for March is coming. Those last few weeks before a new bk will really challenge our fluffiness. And no, Steve, just because u could fit another mug on the ‘rear display window shelf ‘ in your car does not mean u ‘need’ more mugs. Everyone who ordered a mug (yes, Steve, that means u!) should do an extra round of fluffercise. (Hoping that does not have unfortunate and unintended implications.)
(Hugs) to the Horde, Mod. R and HA
+1
I’ll start:
Best Kiss Aspid & Roman🤣
Best one liner Andrea to Kate When Kate says it never came up. She replies, Oh, how unfortunate for you. Lol
Best smackdown Kate to Ascanio on how none else wanted to deal with him.
🤣🤣
There are so many great moments😊
Another scenario in the smack down category is Julie and Ascanio with Julie using wolfsbane and the plastic ties on him in Cutting Edge. 🤣
🤣🤣🤣 Love it!
“Who’s diving for clams now?” Lmao, another Andrea quip.
One of my favorite quips is Kate telling Captain Scully, in Magic Tides, “…That red puddle by your foot isn’t strawberry syrup.”
Since we’re smacking down Ascanio, the scene in Blood Heir when Robert of Clan Rat tells him that hi Bouda girl was saved by Derek and he realizes that Derek is Beta of Ice Fury Pack lollllllll
HA and Mod R are much beloved in return! I’m a little tickled at this post as I am re-re-re-… reading The Inheritance right now. 😄
+1
+10+Lol!
Once the BDH gets an idea in it’s head it is hard to shake.
You are all beloved, ’tis true.
Don’t mind me over here literally weeping after reading “we are enough. And we are beloved.” Thank you Mod R. ❤️
Me too!
I nominated The Inheritance for Best in the Nest in my Owl Crate subscription website. There’s no prize but it’s collecting many heart emojis so I’m hoping a few more new readers will join the bdh one day 😎
I didn’t know that was an option on OC website! I’ll need to check it out!
💗for saying it is enough…I love reading Ilona Andrews books and will keep reading what they write
Thank you Mod R, I feel you have a difficult job and that you make it look so very effortless!
I have the very best job 🤗
Horde Wrangler Extraordinaire. The note from the heart explains why, for so many of us, this is our tribe.
So true!
BDH rocks! Pure and simple
Sign me up for “Finished Everything”. I’ve read (and re-read) everything from Questionable Client to the preview chapters for This Kingdom Will Not Kill Me. Nothing fancy — maybe one of those printable sticker things? Maybe we need one for “w*iting p*tiently”. (Looks around innocently.)
Lolllll
Ona, right with you on the “w*iting p*tiently” award!!! Every time I am re reading something, I am p*tiently w*iting for the rest….
just re-read Blood Heir, Iron Covenant and on my way to re read HL Catalina… so a lot to “p*atiently and hopefuly w*it” for…
😊
Their books have won all the awards in my mind, and am forever grateful for my escape into their worlds. BDH FOREVER!
Would it be possible to get the ‘Book Devouring Horde’ badge into the merch store? Or on a mug? Please and thank you😁
I love the idea of an “I have read/finished EVERYTHING!!!!” award. even if its just a cute printable certificate. official hoard completion certificate, hehehe.
Consider us (poof!) fluffy!!
Best inspirational quote:
“Be the hero you always wanted to be.
Take my hand and answer the call.”
Elias McFeron, Inheritance
So appreciative of HA amazing stories and of ModR’s wrangling of us. Proud to be one of the horde! Also you all help keep me sane and the stress at bay!
I love the BDH, and I love being a member of it. Yay us.
Go Hord!
This Kingdon Will Not Kill Me is Dragón eligible this year. The eligibility period is July 1, 2025 to June 30, 2026.I would push The Inheritance for Best SF novel and TKWNKM for fantasy.
“we are enough. And we are beloved.”
Always good to hear.
Thank you, dear Mod (and authors).
Your closing comment about how House Andrews approaches their work and art, as well as why the do it, is why I read everything they’ve written that I can access. I’ve read most in real-time, over decades. I had to discover that I belonged to the Book Devouring Horde.
The fact that House Andrews will build a platform that invites us to read and contribute to their work is why I will always be a member of this Horde. And bake.
Locus Awards?