Yesterday’s mail brought a copy of The Solaris Book of New Science Fiction: Volume Two, edited by George Mann. I noted the presence of contributors whose work I’ve long admired, such as Paul Di Filippo, Robert Reed, Michael Moorcock, and others, and I looked forward to hunkering down with it over the weekend.

This morning, in a wonderful example of synchronicity, I received an e-mail from editor George Mann in which he accepted an 8,200-word short story of mine, “Glitch,” for the third volume of his anthology series, due out in exactly a year. What remarkable timing!

“Glitch” is my first original fiction sale of 2008 (but not my first sale, as I did place a reprint last month with John Joseph Adams for his forthcoming zombie anthology). I can’t wait to learn who’ll be joining me on that table of contents!