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I had a remarkably good week, both for reasons previously mentioned (such as the reprint sale) and reasons I won't be discussing here.

And Kam came back (yesterday) from her week-long trip to a Mexican spa with her mother, which apparently went quite well, and I had a very nice evening with her yesterday. So I didn't settle into seriously getting magazine stuff done 'til today, and though I spent most of the day on it, I didn't make as much progress as I'd intended. I did, however, get caught up on (among other things) entering new submissions into the database, so I can tell you that we received 115 submissions in the first nine days of the year. (A little more than double our normal submission volume.)

Here are still more items about authors and such:

• Aha! Here's the thing I forgot to put in that entry the other day about stuff various authors were doing, or at least one such thing: David Moles is posting a series of "irrational histories" in a new blog. He's starting with the ones from his excellent "Five Irrational Histories," from the latest Rat Bastards chapbook, and then proceeding onward to others.
• I recently discovered, or possibly re-discovered, that Nalo has a blog! Somehow I either didn't know about it or had forgotten about it. Also, she recently posted her new Christmas story "A Young Candy Daughter," but she'll be taking it down in mid-January so if you want to read it you should go do that soon.
• Jim Van Pelt has updated the Campbell-eligible authors site with authors who "debuted" (by Campbell definitions) in 2004. If you or anyone you know made a sale to a print publication with a circulation of over 10,000 copies for the first time in 2004, get in touch with Jim. Congratulations to, among others, Ken Brady, David Moles, and Amy Sisson for becoming eligible in 2004.
• Speaking of eligibility (which I first wrote as elibigility because it's late and I'm tired), SFWA has updated their qualifying short fiction venues list. There are currently only eleven sf/horror magazines that count as SFWA-eligible pro sales; interestingly, three of them are online publications. (There are other publications that are eligible that aren't magazines, and there are other primarily non-sf and/or primarily non-fiction magazines.)
• The inimitable Jay Lake and Frank Wu are going to be Writer Guest of Honor and Artist Guest of Honor, respectively, at BayCon 2005 in San José this coming Memorial Day weekend. Way cool; congrats, Jay and Frank! Sadly, it's the same weekend as WisCon, so I'll be out of town.

Okay, must go sleep.