Friday lack-of-teapot blogging

No teapot this week — and yes, I’ve been lax on that score for a while.  But since I’ve been neglecting my blogging in general, why should the teapots escape?

(Yes, the correct answer there is “because they’re teapots.”  We’ll just skim over that for now, shall we?)

Instead, I have an announcement: My story “When the Gentlemen Go By” has been selected to be in Best Horror of the Year 1.  This is just awesome — I loved writing this story, and I’m honored it was chosen.  And the book looks pretty cool, too — I mean, take a look at this:

So, no teapots today.  Horror instead!