I thought this was worth posting about:

While I was reviewing the copyedit on my story in Gardner Dozois's anthology THE BOOK OF SWORDS (Bantam, October), I received an email from Gardner asking me if I could do one for a companion antho, THE BOOK OF MAGIC, because another author has dropped out.

This is the third time I've been asked to step in on short notice like this. It's very heartening.