If you missed the comments of the last entry, I found out yesterday that my story "King of the Traffic Lights" was accepted and posted all in the same day by Americana, a cool online arts journal sponsored by NCSU. It's a nice little zine and I'm happy the story found a place there; check out Alice Osborn's story as well, of which part two is up now.

Also, we found out this morning from Rudi that Janet won big-time in this year's Strange Horizons Reader's Choice Awards, first place for both Best Illustration (for Severna Park's story "The Island of Varos") and Best Gallery ("Dead Faeries and Melancholy"). Woo hoo! We did a little dance around the apartment. Here are the breakdowns:

Galleries
First Place: "Dead Faeries and Melancholy" by Janet Chui
Second Place: "Story Fragments" by David Deen
Third Place: "The Fantastic Extreme" by Theodor Black
Honorable Mention: "As Space and Time Permits" by Jacob Wenzka

Illustrations
First Place: Janet Chui, for Severna Park's "The Island of Varos"
Second Place: Hal Hefner, for Dean Francis Alfar's "L'Aquilone du Estrellas"
Third Place: Frank Sipala, for Jenn Reese's "Winged"
Honorable Mention: Maral Agneria, for Erika Peterson's "Birdcatcher"

Also, my sincere congratulations to the following people (list courtesy of DM):

Fiction
First place: "In the Late December" by Greg van Eekhout
Second place: "Sleeping with Bears" by Theodora Goss
Third place: "Living with the Harpy" by Tim Pratt
Honorable Mention: "Fetch" by David Moles

And Jon Hansen got an Honorable Mention in Poetry for "The Laundromat Advances the Plot."

It's been a good couple of days for a lot of creative people. Yay!

Now Reading:
Interpreter of Maladies by Jhumpa Lahiri

Stories Out to Publishers:
5

Books Read This Year:
18

Zines/Chapbooks/Fiction Mags Read This Year:
4