The bullet is through the church, as they say in Holland. Mynx will indeed be publishing an anthology of the best entries in the 2008 Paul Harland Prize (which I covered in an earlier post, as well as raving about one of the most talented entrants in another). And together with tireless PHP organizer and preselection official Wim Stolk, I will be editing this anthology. We have selected our final lineup, and I have the honor of calling every selected author this week and informing them that their stories will be published by Mynx this year. I’m very excited about starting the editing. There are some awesome writers in our selection, and I believe the stories are going to add up to an impressive showcase of present-day Dutch speculative talent.

Can you tell, by the way, how hard it is for me not to let slip any information about the selection? What I really want to say is that I will be editing, for instance, the marvellous fantasy story “   ” by  , which tells the tale of  , the , who     and then   . And then there’s “ ”, an imaginative and emotional story by  …

Oh, never mind. I’ll talk to the writers first, then make an official announcement, and only then will I allow myself to enthuse about the stories here.