You don’t always notice your own bad habits. For reasons that aren’t entirely logical, I spent a little time looking through the archives on this site and noticed a tendency to post at either around 7am or 7pm. I’ll try to change that. The other thing I noticed is that I use the word ‘cool’ too much. Looking at how I use it, it seems to be a lazy kind of shorthand for not actually describing something. Therefore, henceforth this blog will eschew the use of the word ‘cool’.

I was just looking at Ellen Datlow’s website and, if my calculations are correct, the next volume of the Year’s Best Fantasy and Horror will be her fiftieth anthology, which seems like a heck of a milestone.