We interrupt the ordinarily somnolent flow of this blog to announce that it is official: my story “The Bone Man” has been nominated for the International Horror Guild Awards for mid-length fiction! You can read about it and see what else is on the ballot at:

http://www.horroraward.org/

There’s also a little more information about “The Bone Man” on the blog of John Joseph Adams, the assistant editor of Fantasy & Science Fiction, at:

http://www.johnjosephadams.com/?p=1301

Also, while I’m doing commercials, Cricket‘s tech people got the bugs ironed out on their site, so the replies there are once again nicely paired with the reader letters they’re answering:

http://www.cricketmagkids.com/corner/frederic-s-durbin/

Now, back to our regularly-scheduled blog. . . .