Items: writing- and writer-related
Gotta rush off to work, but a few quick items here:
Congratulations to Greg van Eekhout, whose SH Christmas story from last year, "In the Late December," has just qualified for the preliminary Nebula ballot!
This is actually the second of Greg's stories to qualify for a preliminary ballot; his "Will You Be an Astronaut?" (published in F&SF in 2002) was on the preliminary ballot last year. Maybe you should make getting on the ballot an annual tradition, Greg. Ideally, the tradition will expand to include moving on to the final ballot and then winning.
Anyway, it's exciting news for SH as well, because this is the first time a story we've published has appeared on the preliminary ballot. Way cool. (I don't mean in any way to take credit for Greg's story, of course. But I'm always happy when a story we published goes on to gain wider attention in one way or another.)
Lessee, what else? Oh, I've been meaning to mention that the fabulous Susan Marie Groppi now has another online journal. (And did I mention she's co-editing a new anthology, Twenty Epics, with all-star editor and writer David Moles?)
And speaking of zeppelins, as I obliquely was in that parenthetical, I finished reading the zeppelin book last week. Good stuff; I don't think there was a story in the book that I disliked. Everything goes better with zeppelins. More on that to follow in a later posting, no doubt.
In other SH-writer-related news, three of our authors have had birthdays in the last week and a half:
- Sarah Prineas
- Kate Bachus—I was going to mention Kate's recent SH story here, "Echo, Sonar," set in the world of her online serial High Thin Wire, but that was before I saw that Kate is to be congratulated on something much more important: the birth of her daughter Lillian this past Saturday. Yay, Kate & Becca!
- and Barth Anderson, whose story "Into Something Rich and Strange" is online this week at SH—it's a prequel to "Bringweather and the Portal of Giving and Taking," but you don't need to have read that story to enjoy this one.
Okay, one more thing and then I really gotta go: Mary Anne had some author photos taken recently and is trying to decide which of them to use for promotional material for her book; you can help her out by voting for your favorites. Sadly, the one that's by far my favorite is currently running a distant third.
