A Butner, A Wexler, 2 LCRWs

Mon 14 Aug 2023 - Filed under: Not a Journal., | Posted by: Gavin

I should have noted Kelly and I are on the World Fantasy Award ballot under “special award – professional.” Since this is for 2022, it can be taken that the jurors very much enjoyed Richard Butner’s collection The Adventurists and Robert Freeman Wexler’s novel The Silverberg Business, and maybe also the paperback reprint of John Crowley’s And Go Like This and perhaps, too, LCRW 45 & 46. For the curious, you can read an excerpt from The Silverberg Business on Lithub and Butner’s nearish title story “Adventure” on The Deadlands. Congratulations to all the finalists!

Sorry to say we won’t be at the convention, especially irritating to me as Kij Johnson is one of the guests of honor — along with Jonathan Strahan and Tananarive Due, ach — and her new collection, The Privilege of the Happy Ending, will be coming out that week. Oh well! I’ll send along books for the book bag and try my best to ensure there will be copies there.