Mind gets melded while the Fisch gets the prize!

John DeNardo just posted the first half of an new SF Signal Mindmeld, Behind the Scenes…How the Hottest Short Fiction Anthologies Are Created, and I’m included.  Looks like a great posting, and I can’t wait to see what discussion arises.

Today also comes with GOOD news. Jason Fischer of Not If Your Were the Last Short Story on Earth has won 1st Prize  in the latest round of Writers of the Future.  Huge congrats to him.  He’ll be at the big WotF shindig next year, which always looks like fun.

Wednesday AM, quickly

A mixed morning, good folk.  Movement at last on the Godlike Machines front. For those of you who have been wondering, it looks like the book will now come out in January, 2010. I hope to see cover images and so on shortly. It’s going to be a joy to see this book published. I’m very proud of it. More as soon as I have it.

There was some unmitigated good news, too. Kage Baker has been nominated for the French Grand Prix de l’Imaginaire for her novelette “Maelstrom” from The New Space Opera.

Other than that, I’m reading, reading, reading – and waiting for my Beatles box set to arrive!