Locus Recommended Reading List for 2009

Oh, this is nice! I've got two short stories:

• "Ferryman", from Sharyn November's Firebirds Soaring, and
• "Living Curiosities", from Deb Noyes's Sideshow

on the list, as well as my novella,

• "Sea-Hearts", from Keith Stevenson's X⁶ (and yay to Paul Haines, whose "Wives" is on there, too!)

On top of that, Jonathan Strahan's Year's Best (with "Ferryman" in it), and Rich Horton's, with "The Fifth Star in the Southern Cross" (originally published in Jack Dann's Dreaming Again), and Ellen Datlow's The Best Horror of the Year, containing "The Goosle" are in the collections list.

And among the collections, Deb Biancotti's A Book of Endings is up there too—which I launched here in Sydney, so I can take some credit, can't I?—and Libba Bray's Going Bovine is on the Young Adult list, and heaven knows that would have gone nowhere without my blurb! :D

So, really, the list is All About Me. Most satisfactory.