My colleagues at Locus have announced the finalists for the 2011 Locus Awards, and I’m delighted to see that I’ve been short-listed for Best Editor, that the anthology I did with Lou Anders (Swords and Dark Magic) is up for Best Anthology, that three collections I edited made the Best Collection shortlist (congrats to Peter and Stan!), and that Al Reynolds’ wonderful novella “Troika” is up for Best Novella.  It’s a terrific shortlist, and it’s chock full of friends — to many to name individually without reprinting the whole thing — so I hope everyone will simply accept my sincere congratulations and that I hope you’ll all have a wonderful time at the Awards!