I recently became concerned that the blog was sounding a little bit overly self-involved. Too much about me and what I’m doing and what I’m feeling about it. Then I had a very, very, very small epiphany – an epiphanette if you will. It’s my blog. Of course it’s bloody self-involved. What else would it be?

Just re-read Alex Irvine’s “Golems of Detroit” from the May F&SF. I’ll post something intelligent about it later, but it’s a good story and the novel that it comes from looks to be a real winner (The Narrows, due in late ’05). I also just read a new Kelly Link story, “Some Zombie Contingency Plans”. I can’t begin to tell you how much I loved this story. There are stories that come along every now and then, and they make me wish I could build an anthology just to house them. They excite me as a reader, an editor, a publisher. I loved the story – it’s due out in Kelly’s new collection – and you should check it out as soon as you can.