I spent most of the week coughing my lungs out (and let me tell you, stuffing them back into my chest cavity is the most painful part). But just yesterday I was greeted with the incredibly cool news that Bill Crider's "Cranked," which appeared last in year in Damn Near Dead, is up for an Edgar Award!This is also cool for David Thompson, whose Busted Flush Press is already knocking out Edgar contenders in what, its first year? Rock on, Mr. Thompson.
By extension, this is cool for me, because I'm able to brag that I edited an anthology that contains an Edgar nominee. Which makes me what.... an Edgar nominee, twice removed? A second cousin to an Edgar nominee? (Since this is probably as close as I'll ever get to an Edgar, I'm going to milk it for all its worth, baby.)
So thanks to Bill, and the rest of the stellar Damn Near Dead lineup, for continuing to make me look good by association.
(Laura Lippman has suggested that we celebrate with a special Damn Near Dead cocktail: two parts gin to one part Metamucil. Which would give new meaning to the phrase, "Down the hatch!")
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