Mark Anthony Brennan's "March on the New Gomorrah" will be included in Claude Lalumiere's anthology Open Space: New Canadian Fantastic Fiction, which will debut this Labour Day weekend at Worldcon in Toronto. "Beneath the White Layer" is scheduled to appear in the upcoming speculative fiction issue of Descant. The debut issue of Crux will feature "Drot Detail", and "The Return of the Native" will be published in Andromeda Spaceways In-flight Magazine early 2004. This fall Mark's work will also appear in Hadrosaur Tales and the Outposts of Beyond anthology.

Mark is now a regular writer for the lifestyle magazine, In Focus. He also continues as the fiction editor for the on-line magazine SDO Fantasy.

E. L. Chen has sold a short story ("White Rabbit Triptych") to Lady Churchill's Rosebud Wristlet.

Cory Doctorow's novel, Down and Out in the Magic Kingdom, has been downloaded more than 90,000 times so far. The hardcover print run is selling out fast, and Tor Books will be issuing a trade paperback edition in November 2003. His second novel, Eastern Standard Tribe, will be published by Tor in January, 2003. His short story collection, A Place So Foreign and Eight More, will be published by Four Walls Eight Windows press in September, 2003. His two most recent stories, "Jury Service" (with Charles Stross) and "Liberation Spectrum," are both available online, as is "Printed Meat and Nattering Packages," a short-short which just ran in Business 2.0 (and is the first fiction they've every published.) The June Asimov's included Cory's story "NIMBY and the D-Hoppers" (and featured Cory's name on the cover). "NIMBY and the D-Hoppers" has been translated into French by Elisabeth Vonarburg, and will be published in Solaris sometime at the end of 2003 or beginning of 2004.

Cory is currently working on two more novels, /usr/bin/god, a contemporary SF novel about transhumanist cults, and Someone Comes to Town, Someone Leaves Town, an urban fantasy about wireless networking gangs,, as well as a variety of other projects.

Dave Duncan's new novel Impossible Odds, A Chronicle of the King's Blades will appear as a hardcover original in November 2003. Paragon Lost, A Chronicle of the King's Blades (a 2002 hardcover) will be reissued in paperback in August 2003.

Matt Hughes has delivered the manuscript of Black Brillion, the third Archonate novel, to Tor. Publication is expected in spring 2004. He will teach three workshops on fiction techniques at the Shuswap Lake International Writers Conference in Salmon Arm, BC, in late June.

Marie Jakober's novel Only Call Us Faithful has received the Michael Shaara Award for best Civil War novel of 2002. It has also been shortlisted for the Georges Bugnet Award from the Writers Guild of Alberta.

Claude Lalumière's story -"Nocturnes: A Tryptich" appeared in in Fiction Inferno # 2: 006 ; his story "Dregs"--the third Lost Pages story--was in Interzone #186 (February 2003). He recently sold "Njàbò" to On Spec.

Witpunk, an anthology edited by Claude and Marty Halpern, came out in March from Four Walls Eight Windows. A Witpunk-related interview with Claude and Marty appears in the April issue of Barnes & Noble.com's Explorations newsletter; you can also find a Witpunk interview with Claude on the same page as this review on SFREVU.com.  The Witpunk launch was held at The McGill Bookstore (3420 McTavish Street, Montreal) on April 27.

"The Ethical Treatment of Meat"--Claude's story from The Book of More Flesh--is a final nominee for the Origins Awards, best game-related fiction short form (although Claude is quick to point out that his story is not a game tie-in--the story is eligible because the anthology was published by a gaming company). "The Ethical Treatment of Meat" also picked up a few Stoker Award recommendations, though not enough to make the ballot. And it appeared on a number of "best of the year" lists, including Rich Horton's.

Claude's review column for The Montreal Gazette, "Fantastic Fiction," is now being archived online at www.infinityplus.co.uk. As of issue #13, Claude will also be reviewing for Flesh & Blood.

Catherine MacLeod sold  "Postcards from Atlantis," a collection of water-themed short-shorts, to Open Space: New Canadian Fantastic Fiction.

Nina Munteanu's recent sales include  "Virtually Yours" to Hadrosaur Tales (Issue #`15, earlier this year), "Angel's Promises" to Dreams & Visions (Issue #30, March, 2003), and "Angel of Chaos" to Alternate Species (in the UK).

Derryl Murphy has been awarded a $10,000 Emerging Writer grant from the Canada Council, intended to allow him to finish the novel he's working on. He will be taking a research trip to Scotland for the 12 days or so leading up to the World Science Fiction Convention in Toronto over the Labour Day weekend, and then will fly back via Toronto.

Holly Phillips sold "In the Palace of Repose" to the inaugural issue of H.P. Lovecraft's Magazine of Horror, the new sibling publication of Weird Tales, while "In the shadow of your head" went to Flesh & Blood for issue #14.

Sherry Ramsey sold "Sings & Portents" to Oceans of the Mind for its Spring 2003 issue.

Two short stories published by Skysong Press, edited by Steve Stanton, made the three-story short list for the 2002 Canadian Christian Writers Awards in the short fiction category: Donna Farley's "The Passing of the Eclipse," from the Sky Songs anthology (Skysong Press 2002) and Shawn J. Pollett's "An Eye For An Eye," from Dreams & Visions #29 (Skysong Press, Summer 2002). Steve says he cannot recall ever seeing one science-fiction story on the short list for the Canadian Christian Writers Award, let alone two. Winners will be announced on June 13, 2003 during the annual "Expressing the Invisible" God Uses Ink Christian Writer's Conference in Guelph, Ontario..

Steve's own story, "Mark of the Beast," was just published online at Gateway S-F (Issue #7) in California. Michael Vance, who has two stories in Sky Songs,  also has a story in Gateway S-F #7.

Jean-Louis Trudel was at the Salon du Livre de l'Outaouais (in Gatineau) on March 26 to 30, signing his new short fiction collection, Jonctions impossibles (Impossible Joinings), published by the Ottawa publisher Les Éditions du Vermillon, as well as his new young adult novel, Sur le chemin des tornades (On the Path of Tornadoes), from Montréal publisher Médiaspaul. His children's story "Le berger de comètes" (Shepherding Comets) was picked up by Québec's provincial ministry of Education to be part of a year-end French examination. His English-language young adult story, "Tether," finally came out last fall in the Orbiter anthology edited by Julie Czerneda. And his short story "Nitchevo Prospekt" was given an honourable mention for the Prix Solaris writing competition; it will be published later by Solaris.

Jean-Louis Trudel sera au Salon du Livre de l'Outaouais (à Gatineau) du 26 au 30 mars. Il signera son nouveau recueil, Jonctions impossibles, publié par les éditions du Vermillon à Ottawa, ainsi que le nouveau roman pour jeunes de Laurent McAllister, Sur le chemin des tornades, publié par les éditions Médiaspaul. Sa nouvelle pour jeunes "Le berger de comètes" fera partie d'un examen de français du ministère de l'Éducation du Québec. Sa nouvelle pour jeunes en anglais, "Tether," est finalement sortie l'automne dernier dans l'anthologie scolaire Orbiter réunie par Julie Czerneda. Enfin, sa nouvelle "Nitchevo Prospekt" a obtenu une mention honorable lors du Prix Solaris; elle sera publiée plus tard par Solaris.

Peter Watts sold "A word for heathens," his second piece of religious hard-SF, to ReVisions, the alternate-history anthology upcoming from DAW, edited by Julie Czerneda and Isaac Szpindel.

Edward Willett's young adult novel, Spirit Singer (Awe-Struck E-Books/Earthling Press) tied for the EPPIE Award for best electronically published young adult novel, presented in early March at the annual conference of EPIC (Electronically Published Internet Connection) in Tampa, Florida.

Ed has signed a contract to write a children's biography of Orson Scott Card for Enslow Publishers, for their series called "Authors Teens Love;" he's already written a biography of J.R.R. Tolkien for that same series.