It seems relatively common in the writing world to get good news tempered with bad.  I can’t tell you the number of times I’ve opened an e-mail with a wonderful acceptance only to have the next e-mail be a rejection.  Better than two crappy e-mails, I suppose.  Today’s karmic balance:  Good news from James Roy Daley over at http://booksofthedead.blogspot.com/, he wants to publish “America’s Farmlands Under Assault” in his Best New Zombie Tales series.  The bad news from Susurrus press, who are killing their Chicago Overcoat anthology that was set to feature my novella, “The Killing Page.”  Anyone who’s tried to place a novella in this crap-tastic speculative fiction market will tell you that this is a painful blow.  ”Killing Page” is a great story, one of my best (in my humble estimation) but its 10,000+ word length makes it almost impossible to place.

Sigh and damn you, Fickle Gods of Fiction.