Snapbang! Had my head down for about, hrm, 12 hours today (most of it copywriting, though I did spend about three hours on a pitch this morning) and only just now remembered that this dropped today:

Latest anthology from Terri and Ellen Datlow. Illustrations by Charles. Tricksters! Hooray!

Also new: two novels from the dynamite husband and wife team of Emma Bull & Will Shetterly. (Their early urban fantasy novels continue to blow my mind.) Details on the Endicott blog.

I seem to be having run-ins with music I’d forgotten. We had the Suzanne Vega last night. Some Beautiful South that’s so pretty and so pained, it has always made me want to cry… almost. Love Tractor — anyone else remember them? And an Irish tune called “The Mooncoin” that’s so frickin’ addictive, I just had to learn how to play it. Especially since all the recordings I could find were kind of crappy (yes, even the Steeleye version, I’m sorry to say — maybe there’s just something about hearing it in a New York bar). But I haven’t played anything in a long time…

Oh!! Speaking of music: hello Fairport Convention BBC box set extravaganza hello. As if I had the eighty bananas to blow on this. I had to put the Pixies DVDs back. But Leland, bless him, made sure I didn’t leave the store without it.