Ellen Datlow has posted her list of honorable mentions (page 1, page 2) for Best Horror of the Year, Volume 2.  Included among the many names are Altered Fluid’s own Alaya Dawn Johnson for her story “Far and Deep,” (Interzone #221) as well as yours truly for my stories “Saving Diego” (Interzone #221) and “The Spaces Between Things.” (Electric Velocipede 17/18) In addition, three stories from Sybil’s Garage No. 6 received honorable mentions: Toiya Kristen Finley’s  “Eating Ritual,” James B. Pepe’s  “I Am Enkidu, His Wild Brother,” and Genevieve Valentine’s “The Drink …

Yesterday I spent most of the day at the Lunacon convention in Rye Brook, New York.  I traveled up with Mercurio and Alaya Dawn Johnson; it’s not very far from New York City where we all live.  The con is held at the Rye Brook Hilton, a modest hotel much like the one for Readercon.  Last year, I remember seeing more familiar faces, but this year it felt like the usual New York crew was conspicuously absent.  I did have a nice conversation by the bar with Neil Clarke, however, …

Thanks, John! John Klima of Electric Velocipede gives my story “The Spaces Between Things” his Hugo vote. Also of note, friend and fellow Fluidian Saladin Ahmed, whom John suggests for the Campbell Award: http://blog.electricvelocipede.com/2010/03/2010-hugo-nominations.html

Drop what you’re doing right now and go read “Small Burdens” by Paul M. Berger, now up at Strange Horizons.  Granted, Paul is a friend of mine, and he’s in my writers group.  But had that not been the case I’d still be recommending this uber creepy and subtly told tale of faerie and cradle robbing.

Tangent Online finally reviewed Electric Velocipede 17/18, of which my story, “The Spaces Between Things,” appears.  They say: ““The Spaces Between Things” by Matthew Kressel is a touching near future story about a war between East and West in which the East has somehow acquired the ability to send messages through time which appear as metaphors in the protagonist’s present. A series of flashbacks intersperse with the protagonist’s present dilemma, revealing his personal story of love, coming of age, and the invisible connections between people. He reflects on these bits of …