Every so often I come across cover letters mistakenly addressed to the wrong editor.  The most common culprits are Gordon Van Gelder, Gardner Dozois, and Sheila Williams.  Well I've just come across a cover letter that is mistakenly addressed to the wrong assistant editor:

To Shawna McCarthy, John Joseph Adams, et al,

Congrats to JJA (aka the Slush God) for this milestone achievement! :)

the fact that my good friend John Joseph Adams is starting work on his latest reprint anthology, BRAVE NEW WORLDS.  This time the subject is dystopic sf.  As he did with his zombie anthology, he's put together a database where people can offer recommendations for stories he may want to read.  I admit to being a lightweight in this area and have already made my meager and hopefully helpful suggestions.  But maybe you can help.  Why not check it out for yourselves?  His WASTELANDS anthology--reprints of post-apocalyptic spec fic--was very well received, and people are eagerly anticipating his zombie reprint anthology.  I'm sure this one will be just as good!

So today one of my best friends opened his own business . . .in the form of a comic store!  I spent a few hours there with some other members of our crew, hanging out and flipping through many a comic.  My friend is already in good with the neighboorhood kids, because in addition to giving out candy for Halloween he was also giving one free comic to every kid, featuring a story about whoever their favorite superhero was.  He also has a huge inventory of over two million comics, so he can pretty much get whatever you need.  Anyone reading this who happens to be a collector may want to check his place out.  Also, if you tell Jamel (my friend and owner of the store) that Doug sent you, anything you buy in the store is 5% off.

So to those of you who happen to live in the Long Island/NYC area, here are the details:

THE LOOONG BOX
370 Hempstead Avenue
  West Hempstead, NY 11552
(516)-655-8272
www.thelooongbox.com

Go check it out!