It arrived!!!  The issue of Alphabet Soup with Sophie’s story dropped through the mailbbox today and she was thrilled!  Opened it up, pored over it, loved the illustration, and felt very proud of herself.  A big family moment.

For year’s I’ve been going to www.fsfmag.com to get my Magazine of Fantasy & Science Fiction online fix.  Recently they changed the address to www.fandsf.com. I wasn’t paying attention, of course, so I ended up with the Florida Sports Fishing magazine, which was confusing. Update your links!

The energetic Nick Gevers is interviewing short fiction folk for Locus Online in a series of interviews under the title, SF Quintessential.  While I’m sure more interesting folk will be along shortly, I am first cab off the rank. You can read the interview here, which I discuss Eclipse Two. And my thanks to Nick – I suspect I was a tough interview.

A reminder, one and all, that the nominations for the Hugo Awards close on 28 February.  If you are eligible to nominate, please support work you think deserves the award.  It doesn’t matter whether you’ve read or seen everything in the category. What matters is that you make the Awards more representative by including your voice.   I nominated a few weeks ago, and know several friends who have already done so.  The online form is here, and the process is quick and easy.

I’d also add that if you think this stuff doesn’t matter, I respectfully disagree. I had the honor to be nominated last year and it was an incredible experience.

I am hard at work on several new projects, and I’ve decided to put out a call for recommendations here on the blog and out in Twitterverse land.  I am working on a new hard SF anthology and am compiling a list of hard SF writers that the book might include. Now, when I say hard SF writers I’m not talking about writers who could write hard SF or are capable of writing hard SF, but about writers with a track record of writing hard SF: writers like Greg Egan, Greg Bear, Nancy Kress, Linda Nagata and so on.  So, if you can think of a terrific hard SF writer who should be in an original anthology of hard SF stories, jump on the comments thread here and recommend away. I’d love to hear your thoughts.