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I just heard the awful news. I saw Charlie at Readercon Saturday.

I've known Charlie (I've always called him Charlie in person)since I joined the sf community in the easrly 80s but I've only come to be friends with him in the past ten years. He could be annoying and abrasive but I and many other people cared a great deal about it.
I'll miss our dinners and lunches and just hanging out.

He was a fixture and a very important part of the field for decades. I know that Locus will continue--he and his

Readercon photos

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The 2008 Shirley Jackson Awards winners were announced on Sunday, July 12th 2009, at Readercon 20, Conference on Imaginative Literature, in Burlington, Massachusetts. Congratulations to all the winners


NOVEL
Winner:
THE SHADOW YEAR, Jeffrey Ford
(William Morrow)

Finalists:

* Alive in Necropolis, Doug Dorst (Riverhead Hardcover)
* The Man on the Ceiling, Steve Rasnic Tem and Melanie Tem (Wizards of the Coast Discoveries)
* Pandemonium, Daryl Gregory (Del Rey)
* The Resurrectionist, Jack

We've gotten permission to take my dad down to Florida as soon as we want/can so I'm flying down with them the 18-23rd --yup next week. My mother is buying the tix today.

The hiccup--aside from needed a cat/housesitter for Friday-Sunday--after which my regular should be back from Necon--is that as a result of the rain/hailstorm and tornado in Yonkers last night, the family car was flooded, as was the garage. My mom sounds ok with it and is awaiting the insurance adjuster.

these have piled up and I just realized I hadn't posted them:
Bibliophile Stalker, Skullvines, and Horror World .

Prime Books is bringing out an anthology with a sampling of the stories I edited and published at OMNI Online, Event Horizon, and SCIFICTION.  The Book will be coming out as a trade paperback in February 2010. I saw a cover treatment in June and I love it, but have no idea if it's the final.
But in the meantime, here's the TOC.

Introduction Ellen Datlow

OM NI online: September 1996 - March 1998


Thirteen Phantasms                                   James P. Blaylock

Mr. Goober’s Show            

Today was the meeting with everyone (but a doctor): nurses, social worker, the three therapists, and a host of other people who were never introduced to us. (which I suppose we should have asked about but we didn't). My sister couldn't get back to NY for it but it was really short, and we didn't get any more actual info than we received from Zinni and Ann (his PT and speech Therapist) last week--other than that he's doing very well, even better than last week.


We discussed the fact that my parent

Cloud formations
http://tinyurl.com/pgn4h9

My friend John, his house and property, and one of his cats:
http://tinyurl.com/obssap

B&W photos of the area
http://tinyurl.com/p2hcbr

John's July 4th party
http://tinyurl.com/oye6a7

Peter Schjeldahl's July 4th fireworks party
http://tinyurl.com/qpgnme

A few changes and additions:

Friday: 11am The Seeds of Poe: Two Anthologies
Suzy McKee Charnas, Ellen Datlow, Elizabeth Hand, Delia Sherman, Peter Straub, Gary Wolfe--Gary Wolfe is moderating

Saturday: 10 am Short Horror Fiction: The Art (and Market)
Laird Barron, Jeanne Cavelos, Ellen Datlow, Adam Golaski, Paul Tremblay--Adam Golaski is moderating

Saturday 11am--autographing--I will be bringing some copies of my OP titles that will be for sale at my autographing and at Michael Walsh's dealer's table

It's a weirdly crazy NYC summer that's more like tropical --sunny then downpour in the afternoon and then more sun.

I don't care, I'm taking off for upstate NY tomorrow (where I gather it's also been raining) for a real vacation for a couple of days.

Meeting with speech and physical therapists today (and my mom and dad and sister) and it went well. Dad's definitely improving. They're worried about his climbing up the stairs to the garden apt in Yonkers. And my sister, mom, and I worry too. But t