Locus Online has included "What Weena Knew" from the April Analog in their list of Recommended Reading for 2001. (11/12/01)

My contibutor copies of the January, '02 Analog arrived with my novelette, "Perceptual Set." (11/13/01)

Stillwaters Journal, an on line zine, has accepted "The Wreath" for their December issue. (11/16/01)

Preditors and Editors has posted my comments from the Speculations Rumor Mill about submitting to anthologies as an article at their very useful website. The article is titled "Anthology Opportunities." (11/17/01)

Author Greg Koster wrote a very funny review of my short story from the Jan. '02 Asimov's and posted it on Speculation's Rumor Mill. He has given me permission to reprint it. (11/26/01)

Patrick Swenson, the editor at Talebones, nominated "The Yard God" for a Pushcart Prize. (12/2/01)

Talebones bought my short story, "Its Hour Come Round," for issue #24. (12/2/01)

I got a nice review from BestSF.Net for "Perceptual Set" in the January Analog. Among other positive comments, the review said in the issue as a whole, "James Van Pelt's story is the best by far." See the review. (12/8/01)

"The Wreath" is now available in the online zine, Stillwaters Journal. Click on the "This Issue" button to find the story. (12/15/01)

"The Yard God" is now posted on line as a sample story for Talebones. (12/29/01)

Analog bought my short story, "Far From the Emerald Isle." (12/29/01)

Absolute Magnitude bought my short story, "Floaters." (1/1/02)

"Deathlehem" is now available on line at Chiaroscuro. (1/1/02)

I sold a Christmas themed ghost story, "The Sound of One Foot Dancing," to Alfred Hitchcock's Mystery Magazine. (1/18/02)

"The Invisible Empire" is now available in the Del Rey anthology, The Children of Cthulhu. (1/22/02)

"The Saint From Abdijan" is now available in the Extremes 4: Darkest Africa CD book available from Lone Wolf Press. (2/9/02)

I discovered a new review site for short fiction, Bluejack.com that contains positive reviews of "Perceptual Set" in the Jan. Analog, which includes the line, " James Van Pelt tells stories within stories, concisely, and beautifully," "Safety of the Herd" in the Jan. Asimov's, which says, "James Van Pelt gives us the gem of the issue," and "The Yard God" in the fall Talebones, which says, " This is a chilling story that lingers in the memory." (2/10/02)

Future Orbits has bought "Like a Film Gone Twice" (formerly entitled "A Jujyfruit Moment"). (2/15/02)

"The Infodict" made Locus Magazine's Recommended Reading List for stories published in 2001. (2/18/02)

"The Saturn Ring Blues," which originally appeared in On Spec, will be reprinted the anthology, Best of the Rest 3: The Best Unknown SF and Fantasy of 2001. (2/18/02)

The British horror anthology, Dark Terrors 6, has bought my short story, "The Boy Behind the Gate." (2/20/02)

"The Infodict" made Tangent Onlines top stories of 2001 list! (2/21/02)

The Denver Post reviewed The Children of Cthulhu and had nice things to say about my story in it. (2/24/02)

The Bones of the World anthology, with my "The Last Age Should Show Your Heart," has been favorably reviewed at SFReader.com by David Felts. Essentially the same review is posted at Tangent Online. (2/27/02)

Weird Tales has bought my Christmas-themed short story, "Small Town News." (3/16/02)

I received an advance review copy of my collection, Strangers and Beggars, today. I had no idea how utterly cool it would be to sit in a chair with my own book in my lap. But it's cool. Really, really cool. (3/26/02)

"The Infodict," from the August Asimov's has been nominated for the Theodore Sturgeon Award for best short fiction of the year. Information about the award can be found here. The complete list of nominees can be found here. (4/3/02)

"Like a Film Gone Twice" is now available in Future Orbits, issue #4. This is an electronic magazine that requires a subscription. (4/5/02)

"The Yard God," published in '01 in Talebones, has received an honorable mention in the Best of Soft SF Contest for 2001. (5/11/02)

The new serial anthology, Polyphony, has bought "Do Good" for their premier issue. (5/11/02)

Editor Mike Resnick bought "Different Worlds" for the SFWA sponsored anthology published by DAW, New Faces in Science Fiction (5/14/02)

Electric Story bought the short story, "Lashawnda at the End." (5/18/02)

"What Weena Knew" and "Resurrection" finished 2nd and 3rd in the annual Anlab readers' poll for best short stories last year in Analog. (6/01/02)

"It's Hour Come Round" is now available in the spring '02 Talebones.

The spring 2002 issue of Talebones is out with "Its Hour Come Round." (6/15/02)

I received contributor copies of the September Analog with my story, "Far From the Emerald Isle." (6/29/02)

Gardner Dozois has honorably mentioned EIGHT of my stories from 2001 in the latest edition of The Year's Best Science Fiction. (7/2/02)

SCIFI.COM bought my novelette, "A Flock of Birds." (7/01/02)

The new (and groundbreaking) e-anthology, Switch.Blade, is now available at Fictionwise. As the blurb says, "66,000 words words of fantastic fiction."

This is an experiment for Fictionwise, an original antho project. The table of contents is cool (I'm in it, so I'm prejudiced), and I've read the other stories. For double the price, you'd be hard-pressed to find so much good stuff. (7/15/02)