Some cool SCS news: the people who preordered the antho have started getting their copies, and the initial response is really positive. I've got some reviewers interested, and will be sending more copies out tomorrow.

If you're in the Raleigh area and just don't have the patience to wait for me to mail you a copy, Quail Ridge Books is now carrying the book. Make sure to ask for it by name and mention how great you've heard it is. They've only got five copies of it right now, and if they sell all of those, they'll have to order more, and they'll realize what a great thing this anthology is. Plus, we may get some leverage on the discount we're giving them, since it's fairly large right now. So if you live anywhere in Wake County, take a visit to Quail Ridge, and while you're browsing their great selection, please remember our little book.

Also, Clarkesworld Books will soon be carrying our title, so you'll be able to order copies from them if you can't get it from us (though we do prefer that you order it directly from us first).

Also also, SCS made it onto Anna Tambour's "Irresistibles" list. (You have to scroll down a ways, and the link is on the right side of the page, directly across from the nekkid lady illo for Anna's book Spotted Lily.)

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Taking a cue from Jamie, I thought I'd list the books I read this year. It's a good indication of the range of stuff I read. I don't know how I managed to read so many, along with grad school, wedding, jobs, anthology, and other stuff, but here they are, the ones I remembered to record anyway, in alphabetical order by author's last name:

Ugetsu Monogatari: Tales of Moonlight and Rain, Ueda Akinari
Show World, Wilton Barnhardt
Tithe, Holly Black
The Devil You Know, Poppy Z. Brite
Liquor, Poppy Z. Brite
From the Teeth of Angels, Jonathan Carroll
Summerland, Michael Chabon
The Troika, Stepan Chapman
An Essay on the Art of Ingeniously Tormenting, Jane Collier
Cosmopolis, Don DeLillo
A Heartbreaking Work of Staggering Genius, Dave Eggers
You Shall Know Our Velocity, Dave Eggers
The Jane Austen Book Club, Karen Joy Fowler
The Rose in Twelve Petals & Other Stories, Theodora Goss
Shank's Mare, Ikku Jippensha
The Trial, Franz Kafka
Ignorance, Milan Kundera
Slowness, Milan Kundera
Interpreter of Maladies, Jhumpa Lahiri
The Namesake, Jhumpa Lahiri
Steering the Craft, Ursula K. Le Guin
The Fortress of Solitude, Jonathan Lethem
Death in Venice, Thomas Mann
Hellboy: Seed of Destruction, Mike Mignola
Hellboy: Wake the Devil, Mike Mignola
Hellboy: The Chained Coffin and Others, Mike Mignola
Hellboy: The Right Hand of Doom, Mike Mignola
Hellboy: Conqueror Worm, Mike Mignola
The League of Extraordinary Gentlemen vol. 1, Alan Moore & Kevin O'Neill
The League of Extraordinary Gentlemen vol. 2, Alan Moore & Kevin O'Neill
The Wind-Up Bird Chronicle, Haruki Murakami
Stranger Than Fiction, Chuck Palahniuk
The Crying of Lot 49, Thomas Pynchon
Antony and Cleopatra, Willam Shakespeare
Coriolanus, Willam Shakespeare
Hamlet, Willam Shakespeare
Julius Caesar, Willam Shakespeare
King Lear, Willam Shakespeare
Macbeth, Willam Shakespeare
Othello, William Shakespeare
Romeo and Juliet, Willam Shakespeare
Titus Andronicus, Willam Shakespeare
Kokoro, Natsume Soseki
The Rapture of the Nerds, Charles Stross & Cory Doctorow
A Tale of a Tub, Jonathan Swift
Harp of Burma, Michio Takeyama
Secret Life, Jeff VanderMeer
Shriek: An Afterword, Jeff VanderMeer
Leviathan 2, ed. Jeff VanderMeer & Rose Secrest
Leviathan 3 ed. Forrest Aguirre & Jeff VanderMeer
Ray in Reverse, Daniel Wallace
The Watermelon King, Daniel Wallace
Compartments, Zoran Zivkovic
The Fourth Circle, Zoran Zivkovic
Hidden Camera by Zoran Zivkovic
The Library, Zoran Zivkovic
Steps Through the Mist, Zoran Zivkovic

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Oh, and if I don't get the chance to say it before the weekend, Happiness, Joy and Peace to you all. Have a wonderful holiday, whichever one you choose to celebrate.

Now Reading:
Electric Velocipede no. 7

Stories Out to Publishers:
7

Books Read This Year:
66

Zines/Graphic Novels/Fiction Mags Read This Year:
33