I was pleased to see both of my published short stories (ack, yeah, all two of them -- I'm sooo overdue for a fresh publishing credit) of the other year were among the honorable mentions for the "Best Horror of the Year" anthology put together by editor Ellen Datlow. Nice to see that, since Datlow's not an easy sell on fiction (I know, since she's rejected more than a handful of my stories over the years), and for both of my stories to get a polite tip of the cap made me smile for a moment.
I think the long fiction I'm working on this year (and will be working on next year) will make a much-larger impression on people than those short stories, assuming I can get a publisher to pick them up. Always the big IF in the mix.
Just listening to the rain right now, the thunder. I should go to bed.
