Date: Mon, 10 Sep 2007 10:15:10 -0400
From: "Michael Walsh" <MJW at press.jhu.edu>
To: <wsfalist at keithlynch.net>,<wsfa-forum at yahoogroups.com>
Subject: [WSFA] The Book With Everything
Reply-To: WSFA members <WSFAlist at KeithLynch.net>

"The book has to be a graphic novel which is the first novel published
by the author, a person of color who is an active and well-liked member
of SFWA. It must be initially published in Canada, in French, as a
paperback original, with simultaneous British and North American
English-language editions following about ten minutes after, and a
Japanese translation already in the works. It must satisfy the genre
expectations of hard SF, mythopoeic fantasy, horror, alternate history,
and romance, have positive gay or lesbian or bisexual or transgendered
characters, and include examinations of gender, gender identity, racial
identity, class, and libertarianism, while not being unsuitable for
younger readers. Also, it has to have poetry in it. And a vampire."

More hilarity ensues:

http://nielsenhayden.com/makinglight/archives/009360.html#009360