Hooray me! after an oddish experience at the Verandah launch Saturday night (I told my editor she looked like a barmaid, which I meant as a compliment - she was dolled up like a 1940's bar chick, and she was behind the bar), I have received word that the story that ran in Verandah last year has been chosen to go into Black Inc's best stories of 2005 collection, which of course they call "2006" so as not to seem dated. and chosen by Robert Drewe, no less. so I emailed the editor immediately, gushing about how much I like Drewe's work (well, I've read Corfu and I read his columns in the Saturday paper). who knows if there's any cash in it: it's just nice to be chosen for a "best of" collection, not to mention the entre it gives me to submit for next year's collection. Black Inc, sadly, don't put out a lot of fiction apart from the collections.

hee hee hee