The year is slipping away and it’s looking less and less likely that Subterranean Press will get Howard Waldrop’s new collection Heart of Whitenesse into print for 2004, which is a little disappointing. I should probably add here that I’ve never heard of Subterranean dropping a book, so I’m sure it definitely will come out, but just probably next year some time. Oh well.

I am happy, though, to hear that Cemetery Dance is going to publish a new collection of stories by Terry Dowling, and that Small Beer are publishing Kelly Link’s second collection, Magic for Beginners, and a new Maureen McHugh collection. This year, 2004, has been a pretty outstanding year for collections in what seems to be a golden age (almost) for great collections (you need only look at Lucius Shepard’s Trujillo and Margo Lanagan’s Black Juice to see that), and 2005 looks set to be every bit as good.