Well, I’ve finished selecting all of the stories for The Best Science Fiction and Fantasy of the Year: Volume 3 and am hard at work on story notes, introductions etc.  As promised earlier, I’ll publish the table of contents here once all the permissions are finalised.

I have a verbal agreement with the publisher for volumes four and five of the series, so it seems likely that I’ll be doing this again for 2009.  Just as soon as the agreement is formalised I’ll put out a general announcement and call for stories, recommendations etc, but there is one thing I can do regardless.  I’d like to invite anyone who is editing an anthology, publishing an anthology, or who has a story in an original anthology to drop me an email and let me know about the book.  I’d like to do more to promote these books, and am pondering various options.  At the very least I’ll be repeating the list I ran last year.  And, on that, my sincere apologies to anyone who’s books didn’t get on to the 2008 list.  It was an oversight on my part.   I’ll be endeavouring to do better in 2009!