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There are a lot of great small online presses out there, doing interesting things in the realm of SF and fantasy. Ideomancer, Strange Horizons, and many more. One, Crossed Genres, is having an Earth Day sale on PDF subscriptions. Today only, $7.50 for a year (12 months).

Peter Beagle has begun a project to write a song, story, or poem every day for a year, to celebrate his 70th birthday and 50th anniversary of publishing his first novel. It’s $25 to get in on the fun, and have them delivered straight to you. (And it’s a worthwhile cause, too.)

Probably everyone who is interested has already heard this, but just in case: members of the 2009 Worldcon will receive a very nice electronic packet containing most of the materials for the Hugo Award nominees. I got my packet yesterday – wow! Thanks to John Scalzi, the authors and publishers, and everyone else who contributed to putting this together.

In other fictional news, I submitted my first-ever story to a real paying market. Wish me luck!

Shadow Unit Season 2 Opener

Shadow Unit season 2 starts tonight!

You missed the first season of this SF crime show? There’s still time – you can catch the full first season at the above link. It’s worth your time.

Skeptical? With a staff like this?

Executive Producer:
Emma Bull
Co-Executive Producer:
Elizabeth Bear
Producer:
Sarah Monette
Producer:
Will Shetterly
Art Director:
Amanda Downum
Technical Director:
Stephen Shipman

T-shirty goodness

Princess shirt
Self-rescuing princess from ThinkGeek.

Obama shirt
Obama shirt from Chris Bishop.

They don’t go together so well, but every so often even the most competent princess needs a little bit of help, right?