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» Sunday April 10, 2011 - 04:33 pm
The Board of Trustees of the Horror Writers Association is pleased to announce that the 2010 Silver Hammer Award is being awarded to Angel Leigh McCoy. The Hammer Award is given periodically to an HWA volunteer who has done a truly massive amount of work for our organization, often unsung and behind the scenes. It was instituted in 1996, and is decided by a vote of HWA's Board of Trustees.
The award is so named because it represents the careful, steady, continuous work of building HWA's "house" -- the many institutional systems that keep the organization functioning on a day-to-day basis. The award itself is a chrome-plated hammer with an engraved plaque on the handle. The chrome hammer is also a satisfying allusion to The Beatles' song, "Maxwell's Silver Hammer," a miniature horror story in itself.
Angel McCoy currently oversees HWA's Dark Whispers blog, which promotes members' books to hundreds of librarians, booksellers, and readers; under Angel's management, the blog has been redesigned to include a Twitter feed, making it even more popular and timely. Angel also built and oversees HWA's Wiki, on which members can promote their accomplishments and their books, and she works behind the scenes with HWA's web team to ensure that the organization's massive website is as up-to-date and streamlined as possible.
Past winners of the Silver Hammer Award include Lawrence Watt-Evans, Sèphera Giron, Kathy Ptacek, Robert Weinberg and Douglas Winter.
                    
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