SNW 10 HAS LAUNCHED...

Much faster than I expected (probably because I didn't know how it went before) Dean has made some hard choices and picked out 23 stories for the anthology plus 25 alternates on Monday, November 20, 2006.

He's mailed them off to Pocket Books where a reader there and another from CBS will labor till after the dawn of January 2007 to finalize what may be the last SNW anthology.

Details about the reading are on Dean's forum.

All I know for certain is I mailed off some good stuff this year. I'm keeping my fingers crossed.

Thank you Dean for giving 10 years of your life to SNW and accepting me into what turned out to be your final Oregon Master Class in 2004, where you and Kris Rusch taught me a lot about the craft and business of writing.