Last night my girlfriend and I went to see Cirque du Soleil inside the Prudential Center of Newark, New Jersey.  Having been a veteran taker of the PATH, it was not all that hard to get to from Manhattan, and I felt that little unexpected surprise when sunlight suddenly smacked me in the face and I remembered that, yes, this train does sometimes run above ground.  We arrived early and had time to kill, so we walked around the stadium.  But there’s not much to see there.  As far as …

From Readercon 20 (2009) Right now I’m still severely depleted from Readercon, so an in-depth review of my time there will be forthcoming.  In the meantime, here are some photos from the con.  It really was a wonderful time, and I think perhaps my favorite Readercon to date.  It was so great to see everyone and just be surrounded by such creativity.  I know I will be inspired for a long time to come. The photos.

2008 Shirley Jackson Awards Winners The 2008 Shirley Jackson Awards winners were announced on Sunday, July 12th 2009, at Readercon 20, Conference on Imaginative Literature, in Burlington, Massachusetts. Congratulations to all winners. Last year’s winners can be found here. NOVEL Winner: THE SHADOW YEAR, Jeffrey Ford (William Morrow) Finalists: Alive in Necropolis, Doug Dorst (Riverhead Hardcover) The Man on the Ceiling, Steve Rasnic Tem and Melanie Tem (Wizards of the Coast Discoveries) Pandemonium, Daryl Gregory (Del Rey) The Resurrectionist, Jack O’Connell (Algonquin Books) Tender Morsels, Margo Lanagan (Knopf Books for Young Readers) NOVELLA Winner: DISQUIET, Julia Leigh (Penguin/Hamish Hamilton) Finalists: “Dormitory,” Yoko Ogawa (The Diving Pool, …

Transmissions from Beyond has just posted Mercurio D. Rivera‘s story, “The Scent of Their Arrival,” read by Mercurio and myself as the voice of the human.  You can listen to the podcast here.

At ReaderCon, I’ll be hosting a Kaffeeklatsch at 10 AM on Saturday for Sybil’s Garage, and then I’ll be participating in a panel about the future of spec fic magazines on Sunday at 11 am.  Here’s my official schedule: Saturday 10:00 AM, Vineyard: Kaffeeklatsch [Sybil's Garage] Sunday 11:00 AM, ME/ CT: Panel The Future of Speculative Fiction Magazines, Part 2: Online Magazines / Conclusions. K. Tempest Bradford, Neil Clarke, Robert Killheffer, Mary Robinette Kowal (L), Matthew Kressel, Sean Wallace “Are print magazines doomed? (Heck, if _newspapers_ can’t make it …) Or …