I think I'm done

I'm going to email the ms of Lovecraft Unbound to my editor today, as soon as he lets me know if he wants it in pieces or in one BIG file. (of course, I'll have to format the thing if he wants the latter). I put the stories in order.

And I've just finished agonizing over my introduction. I believe I've mentioned before how much I hate writing anything, including introductions to my anthologies. I'm not a critic, I'm barely a reviewer and yes, I realize that for most introductions I have little substantial to say. However, I personally dislike anthologies that do not have introductions. My publishers expect introductions. So I write them to the best of my ability.

I wasn't able to snail mail the contracts and Chabon printout to my editor because I had trouble photocopying the story from YBFH-the damned pages have so little top and bottom margin that invariably I wasted (and paid for) a lot of paper and then forgot the last 5 pages. So yesterday, I took the book in to Staples and they're doing those last pages. So that likely won't go out till Monday if I can get to the post office.

Nebula Award ballot

SFWA is proud to announce the nominees for the 2008 Nebula Awards.
The awards will be presented at the 2009 Nebula Awards® Weekend,
April 24-26, 2009, in Los Angeles, California. For more information
on the awards and the Nebulas Weekend, please see
http://www.nebulaawards.com/index.php/nebulaweekend

Novels:
"Little Brother" - Doctorow, Cory (Tor, Apr08)
"Powers" - Le Guin, Ursula K. (Harcourt, Sep07)
"Cauldron" - McDevitt, Jack (Ace,Nov07)
"Brasyl" - McDonald, Ian (Pyr, May07)
"Making Money" - Pratchett, Terry (Harper, Sep07)
"Superpowers" - Schwartz, David J. (Three Rivers Press, Jun08)

Novellas:
"The Spacetime Pool" - Asaro, Catherine (Analog, Mar08)
"Dark Heaven"-Benford, Gregory (Alien Crimes, Resnick, Mike, Ed., SFBC, Jan07)
"Dangerous Space"-Eskridge, Kelley (Dangerous Space, Aquaduct Press, Jun07)
"The Political Prisoner" - Finlay, Charles Coleman (F&SF, Aug08)
"The Duke in His Castle" - Nazarian, Vera (Norilana Books, Jun08)

Novelettes:
"If Angels Fight" - Bowes, Richard (F&SF, Feb08)
“The Ray-Gun: A Love Story” - James Alan Gardner (Asimov’s, Feb08)
"Dark Rooms" - Goldstein, Lisa (Asimov's, Oct/Nov 07)
"Pride and Prometheus" - Kessel, John (F&SF, Jan08)
"Night Wind"-Rosenblum, Mary (Lace and Blade, ed. Deborah J. Ross, Norilana Books,Feb08)
"Baby Doll" - Sinisalo, Johanna (The SFWA European Hall of Fame, James Morrow & Kathryn Morrow, Ed., Tor, Jun07 (trans. from the Finnish by David Hackston)
"Kaleidoscope" - Wentworth, K.D. (F&SF, May07)

Short Stories:
"The Button Bin"-Allen, Mike (Helix: A Speculative Fiction Quarterly,
"The Dreaming Wind" - Ford, Jeffrey (The Coyote Road: Trickster Tales, Ellen Datlow and Terri Windling, Ed., Viking, Jul07)
"Trophy Wives" - Hoffman, Nina Kiriki (Fellowship Fantastic, ed. Greenberg and Hughes, Daw Jan08)
"26 Monkeys, Also the Abyss" - Johnson, Kij (Asimov's, Jul08)
"The Tomb Wife" - Jones, Gwyneth (F&SF, Aug07)
"Don't Stop" - Kelly, James Patrick (Asimov's, Jun07)
“Mars: A Traveler’s Guide” - Ruth Nestvold (F&SF, Jan08)

Scripts:
"The Dark Knight" - Nolan, Jonathan; Nolan, Christopher, Goyer, David S. (Warner Bros., Jul08) "WALL-E" Screenplay by Andrew Stanton, Jim Reardon, Original story by Andrew Stanton, Pete Docter (Walt Disney June 2008)
"The Shrine" - Wright, Brad (Stargate Atlantis, Aug08)

Norton:
"Graceling" - Cashore, Kristin (Harcourt, Oct08)
"Lamplighter" - Cornish, D.M. (Monster Blood Tattoo, Book 2, Putnam Juvenile, May08))
"Savvy" - Law, Ingrid (Dial, May08)
"The Adoration of Jenna Fox"-Pearson, Mary E.(Henry Holt & Company, Apr08)
"Flora's Dare: How a Girl of Spirit Gambles All to Expand Her
Vocabulary, Confront a Bouncing Boy Terror, and Try to Save Califa from a Shaky Doom (Despite Being Confined to Her Room) -Wilce, Ysabeau S. (Harcourt, Sep08)

Correction to the final ballot: one novelette and one story were left off by a procedural error

The Coyote Road is out in trade paperback

Surprise surprise (it was to me) The Coyote Road: Trickster Tales has been out in trade paperback since January 8th. So if you haven't already bought it in hardcover, consider buying it for the very cheap price of $10.99 now.

The book has had three stories nominated for the Nebula Award, one for the World Fantasy Award, and the anthology itself was nominated for the World Fantasy Award.