Neb Prelim Ballot!

Good news for my first novel, Counting Heads. It's made the preliminary ballot for the Nebula Award.

The photo above is my brother, Mark, dressed up at Holloween as the KFC Colonel. Looks like he's counting hands.

Story collection is coming along

Subterranean Press is putting the finishing touches on my collection to be released in April. Here's what the cover is looking like at this stage. Illustrator is Mark A. Nelson. You can pre-order on Amazon, Barnes & Noble, and quality bookstores everywhere.

Read Czech?

A Czech anthology has been published that includes my story "The Wedding Album." Looks like a winner. Here's the lineup:

PAOLO BACIGALUPI: THE PASHO (Asimov's SF September 2004)
LAIRD BARRON: BULLDOZER (Sci Fiction 2004)
CHRISTOPHER BARZAK: THE LANGUAGE OF MOTHS (Realms of Fantasy 2005)
ALAN DENIRO: SALTING THE MAP (Fortean Bureau 2003)
CORY DOCTOROW: ANDA'S GAME (Salon 2004)
JEFFREY FORD: IN THE HOUSE OF FOUR SEASONS (Fantasy Magazine 2005)
GREGORY FROST: MADONNA OF THE MAQUILADORA (Asimov´s SF May 2002)
THEODORA GOSS: PIP AND THE FAIRIES (Strange Horizons 2005)
EILEEN GUNN: COMING TO TERMS (Stable Strategies 2004)
KIJ JOHNSON: AT THE MOUTH OF THE RIVER OF BEES (Sci Fiction website 2003)
CAITLÍN R. KIERNAN: RIDING THE WHITE BULL (Argosy Jan/Feb 2004)
ELLEN KLAGES: TIME GYPSY (Bending the Landscape: Science Fiction 1998)
JAY LAKE: INTO THE GARDENS OF SWEET NIGHT (L. Ron Hubbard Presents Writers of the Future Volume XIX 2003)
DAVID MARUSEK: THE WEDDING ALBUM (Asimov's SF June 1999)
PAUL MELKO: FALLOW EARTH (Asimov's SF June 2004)
Sarah Monette: Three Letters from the Queen of Elfland (Lady Churchill’s Rosebud Wristlet 2002)
TIM PRATT: LITTLE GODS (Strange Horizons 2002)
Bruce Holland Rogers: Thirteen Ways to Water (Black Cats and Broken Mirrors, eds. Martin H. Greenberg & John Helfers 1998)
BENJAMIN ROSENBAUM: EMBRACING-THE-NEW (Asimov's SF January 2004)
KEN WHARTON: ALOHA (Analog June 2003)

Special guest:
HAL DUNCAN: THE TOWER OF MORNING'S BONES (not yet published)