I got so caught up in the fact that "Brief Candle" got an honorable mention in The Year's Best Science Fiction that I completely missed the fact that "The Singers of Rhodes" from Panverse One was also listed. Woo hoo!

Gardner Dozois's Year's Best Science Fiction: Twenty-Seventh Annual Edition just came out and "Brief Candle" made the honorable mention list. That may not seem like something to get all excited about, but it is to me. To have even been considered in that group is awesome.

Dario Ciriello's Panverse Publishing got some great press on GalleyCat and BoingBoing stemming from his Kickstarter campaign to fund an expansion of the press. Now, that's exposure.

My novelette THE LONG FALL is going to appear in the September edition of the Grantville Gazette. If you haven't heard, The Gazette has added a new section called "Universe Annex" for stories that aren't related to Eric Flint's 1632 universe. It sort of picks up where Jim Baen's Universe left off. It works the same way The Gazette does, all submissions go through the slush forum for comments and critique, then the editors pluck the publishable stories from there.

Congratulations to Kij Johnson, Eugie Foster, Kage Baker, Paolo Bacigalupi, and the other winners and nominees. The complete list of winners is available on SFWA's Nebula announcement. Tor.com has a list of winners with the nominees. This was an interesting year in Neb nominations, with overall some really tough choices.

Clarkesworld back issues are now available as e-books for the Kindle. (Yes, including issue #38.)

Over at Side-Show Freaks, Scott Roberts seems awfully eager to convince everyone that Edmund Schubert, editor of Intergalactic Medicine Show, has not been transformed into some kind of vampiric werewolf android. But, when you think about it, isn't that just what they would say?

So is Mashable. According to Mashable, the AP Stylebook is changing "Web site" to "website". Mashable swoons over the decision, insisting that it's long overdue, because, after all, if the language isn't twisted out of shape, it's not cool. Right? (OMG! Its da c00lz!)

I know it's somewhat after the fact, but Australian Speculative Fiction in Focus gave a nice review of Andromeda Spaceways Issue 42 and my story "Inside Job". The reviewer singled out editor Edwina Harvey's fine work in putting together a particularly good ASIM issue.

The May/June issue of Poets & Writers Magazine is out. This issue focuses on writing contests. The special section includes a "guide to the competitions that turn manuscripts into books", so hurry down to your local newsstand and pick up a copy, because that part isn't available online.