Monthly Archives: September 2006

Ask and you shall receive! My publisher at Night Shade let me know this morning that you can now pre-order The Best Science Fiction and Fantasy of the Year from amazon.com. The cover that you can see there is a placeholder, though the art by Stephan Martiniere is one of two fantastic pieces that will … Continue reading »

I’m in the midst of working on books, working to (and occasionally passing) deadlines, and reading, reading, reading. My first book for Night Shade, The Best Science Fiction and Fantasy of the Year, is dominating my thoughts. It’s a 200,000 word anthology that will be published in March 2007 in trade paperback. Given the word … Continue reading »

I probably shouldn’t be so delighted about this, but CJ Cherryh writes in her journal that she has finished the latest Foreigner book and is now going back to the Cyteen sequel that she started last year. I don’t know how this will work out in publishing terms – I actually think this one might … Continue reading »

I should have known it, of course. And up to a point I did. Going on the road for a month, attending WorldCon and doing family stuff, effectively meant a month of lost work time. I intended to get the introduction to The New Space Opera written (I didn’t, but it’s almost done now), I … Continue reading »

There’s a discussion going on about Locus’s reviews of Ellen Datlow & Terri Windling’s fine anthology, Salon Fantastique, over on the Night Shade boards. I’ve lost my password so I can’t post there, so I thought I’d put my response here for the moment: PM: It seems to me that it’s implicit in your question … Continue reading »