The Year to Come

Ann and I finally have an emerging schedule for the year, and as you can see it's somewhat crowded--and likely to get more crowded on the events side, since several other things are pending; we are highly chuffed about the Czech thing, which just happened yesterday.Re the projects, you'll note we have six anthos coming out this year--each radically different from the last. Sometimes it just happens that way. So just bear with me as I babble on about one thing or the other. We're excited about each of these projects and each of them will have our full attention. (The pirate antho date was just fixed for October and we're in the process of letting the contributors know.) Things are off to a good start with several amazing developments for The New Weird antho that I'll share in the coming weeks.APPEARANCESFeb - South Carolina Book Fair guestsMarch - Keynote speaker, Arizona Convocation of librariansApril - I-CON guestsAugust - Czech Republic convention in Pilsen (with China Mieville, Les Edwards, and Steph Swainston)BOOKSFeb - The New Weird (co-edited with Ann, from Tachyon)March - The Situation (fiction, PS Publishing)April - Secret Lives (fiction, Prime Books)May - Shriek: An Afterword (limited edition, Wyrm Books)May - Steampunk (co-edited with Ann, from Tachyon)June - Weird Tales 85th Anniversary Issue (Ann, fiction editor; also three other 2008 issues)July - The Leonardo Variations (co-edited with Ann, a charity antho for Clarion)August - Predator: South China Sea (novel, Dark Horse)September - Best American Fantasy 2 (guest-edited with Ann, from Prime)October - Fast Ships/Black Sails (pirate antho from NS, co-edited with Ann)November - Mapping the Beast: The Best of Leviathan (co-edited with Ann, from Prime)Last Drink Bird Head has been pushed back to spring 2009 to take advantage of some wonderful developments that I'll be able to talk about next time. My novel Finch will also be published in spring 2009.Jeff