I feel like we need to talk about award season etiquette because there's some disgusting behavior happening in the way some folks promote themselves and idk if it's a case of you just weren't told or what

For instance, logrolling, or requesting a vote or nomination as an exchange of favors, is frowned upon.

Cold-calling or spamming networks with pleas during award season when you haven't supported or boosted or bothered to check in on anyone else? Also ugly.

Boosting your own work as an editor of an anthology or something and having nothing whatsoever to say or celebrate about the actual contributors to the collection? Also ugly.

Remember that there is self-promotion and then there is being self-obsessed. You should be encouraging potential award judges/voters to engage with *your work*, not respond to your pleas for further access to award networks and recognition.

If you *are* behaving in self-obsessed manners, if you only engage with people when it's time to ask them to vote for you, those people talk. Which is why I'm doing this thread. Thank you and goodnight.

DO: make an eligibility post. You did things and deserve to reflect on them. Some of those things are eligible for awards maybe. A post helps people who already like your work but may have missed it, find it.

DO: visit and engage with the eligibility posts of others. It's a good literary citizen practice.

DO NOT: feign interest in the lives of others for long enough to drop your scripted self-promotion text on them.