Available now:
- Extra Time in Hub #99
http://www.hubfiction.com/2009/10/hub-99/

This Nebula Awards self-promotion thing, I mean.

Sigh.

Under the new rules, I have one short story that is definitely eligible. That's 'Extra Time', which was electronically published by Hub this October. If you wish to, you can read it here: http://hubfiction.com/hub/Hub_99.pdf

(An aside: I find it a bit perplexing that stories published by a British electronic magazine are eligible under the rules while stories published by an award-winning British print magazine/anthology like Postscripts are not. But those are the rules.)

Not so clear cut are 'The Last Botnet' and 'String-driven Thing', published in Futures in Nature Physics and Nature respectively. Each of these publications describes itself as an "international journal". NPG, which publishes both, has offices in New York as well as London. Does that qualify it/them? If anyone more Nebula-savvy than me can answer that question, I'd be pleased to know.

If you'd like to read either of my Futures short-shorts, irrespective of their eligibility, please send me an LJ message containing your email address.

Now I'm going to wash my hands.

My thirteenth published story, Stars in Her Eyes, hits the bookshelves today, with the publication of issue 17 of Postscripts. I've just received my subscription copy. My hardback contributor's copy will be along in due course.

The paperback is gorgeous; the hardback, which will doubtless take a few weeks to turn up since I've only just finished with the signing sheets, will be beyond gorgeous (trust me). As a fellow writer put it: it will levitate under the power of its own gorgeousness and demand worship from all who behold it. Okay, I'm exaggerating a bit, but not much.

The suitably festive cover is here: store.pspublishing.co.uk/acatalog/info_392.html

This is the final issue of Postscripts magazine. Fortunately Postscripts is continuing as a quarterly anthology.