I've had an email from editor-extraordinaire Gardner Dozois, inviting me to submit a novelette to another one of his signature anthologies, this one to be called
The Book of Legends, due out next year. I look forward to writing something in the next couple of months.
This will be the seventh Dozois antho I've been asked into. It puts me in with the cream of the science fiction and fantasy writing community. Makes me feel as if I'm getting somewhere. I appreciate the encouragement.
Meanwhile, last year's
The Book of Swords
seems to be selling well, and my story "The Sword of Destiny," which introduced Baldemar the wizard's henchman, is getting good reviews -- and earning me new readers. In a few months,
The Book of Magic, which includes my story "The Friends of Masquelayne the Incomparable," will be published.
So on we go.