Oh. That is so frustrating. These multi-editor publications, where the nominator doesn't have hold on what's going on are so frustrating. That has happened to me as well, and then the nominating editor did actually nominate it after it was published by the other editor - the other editor literally published it while I and the nominator were in the middle of a PM conversation. Could you not ask the nominator to consider it after publication as you'd done the work together - and can still tweak it post-publishing, if you want to.