Well, dear readers, progress!  I have now selected my preferred contents for this year’s annual: twenty eight stories from a wide range of anthologies, collections, magazines, and websites.  I’ve sent out all of the invitations to writers, and am waiting to hear back from them.  Once I have, I’ll publish the table of contents here.  I think one or two people may not be able to be involved, so we’ll see.  In the meantime I’m moving on to working on the main volume introduction (my least favorite part of editing a year’s best) and the individual author story notes.  If I can get those done, I’ll deliver the book to the good folk at Night Shade a few days after getting back from Calgary, and then the book will move into production for it’s scheduled March 2009 publication.

I should also mention that I’ll be sitting down with the good folks from Night Shade when I get to California to discuss volumes 4 and 5 of the year’s best series.  With a little luck, I’ll be editing this series for them for a good time to come – something that makes me inordinately happy.