Oh man, I've been so out of it that I totally spaced it. I made sure I emailed my buddy Greg about it, of course, since he had something to do with it and all. Exactly half, to be exact. So I thought I'd let everyone else know.

Our weird-ass West Coast story "California King" is now in print, in the April/May 2005 issue of Asimov's!

Nice company we're keeping inside those pages -- Walter Jon Williams, Gardner Dozois, George RRRRR Martin, Liz Williams, Mike Resnick, and don't forget Robert Silverberg and James Patrick Kelly. And two Bruce Boston poems! (How interesting that it was a Bruce Boston poem that Elizabeth and I read at the Scattered, Smothered, Covered reading last Saturday. Nifty synchronicity.

At some point I've got to read the rest of the stories in that fat double issue. I've gotten really slack about keeping up with my story reading lately, but I did print out all the stories in the latest Lenox Avenue and Fortean Bureau so I have something to read at the beach next week (we're leaving Sunday, after UNC trounces Dook in basketball!). I also have a handful of New Yorkers to read as well, along with a hard copy of the baseball novel. But no laptop. I'm going out on a limb here, folks!

Getting prepped for a week off has motivated me to finish up Part 2 of the novel blog, and I posted the penultimate section of Part 2 today before leaving work. Tomorrow will be the last one, then I'll post PDFs of the first 2 sections if folks want to download them and read the whole thing all the way through.

I'd say the story is about 1/4 done now, and so far I've managed to kill both my first-person protagonists. Good thing they're both more or less immortal. For now... I'm making it up as I go, so it's been a wild ride, to say the least. Check it out, eh?

And now, to sleep. Later!