Cool ASS

"The Drowned Town" got a Rhysling Poetry Award nomination, which means I'll be in the 2010 anthology. Great thanks to the ladies at Goblin Fruit, plus sovay, for making me write it/send it there, in the first place...

And also: "each thing I show you is a piece of my death" made Locus's list of recommended reading, as did Clockwork Phoenix 2. Yeaaaah.

In other news, I wrote pretty much nothing today. Hoping to better that tomorrow; shit knows, it wouldn't be hard.

Huh

What I usually refer to as "the yearly bitch-slap from Prime Books" came today, and for once, it's a genuine chunk of change, as opposed to a reminder that fifteen years' worth of my stories are mainly accessible through two collections no one seems to know exist (particularly The Worm in Every Heart). But yes, something finally seems to be changing: 28 copies of Kissing Carrion sold over 2009, plus a whopping 25 of The Worm... Pretty sure I have my various recent editors and publishers to thank for that, from CZP to Norilana, Dark Arts, Ellen Datlow and Goblin Fruit, etc. Actually, considering how depressed I was about my life just last birthday, it's been a damn amazing couple of years.;)

Meanwhile: Just got done signing the sheets for the hardback edition and chatting with jack_yoniga over coffee, which was a fun way to spend my typical Tuesday time between delivering Cal to Surrey Place and having to go pick him back up again. But now I'm almost out the door once more, so...later!