Holy smokes!

I'd been going to leave my Thanksgiving-menu post at the top for another day or two, so y'all could admire my Iron-Chef-like prowess in the kitchen, but I must change those plans. My buddy Jason, whose writings you can find all over the place now (and a good thing, too), pointed me to a review of Canterbury 2100, the anthology in which my "The Miner's Tale" appears. The review, written by Tansy Rayner Roberts and posted on the Not If You Were the Last Short Story community blog, includes this:

"The Miner's Tale," by Laura E Goodin, is the story that stood out for me as the absolute best of the collection, and the one which I think would most effectively stand on its own, beyond the framing story. This was a powerful, gut-kicking story about amateur espionage, as a small group of desperate miners struggle to prove their discovery that the material they are mining for is not just something that could easily kill them, but create deadly weapons. The characters and their struggles really got to me, and I was completely gripped from beginning to end.

I'm stunned. Stunned.

Oh, I forgot: you can buy the book here. Non-Aus people, it's not up on Amazon yet, but if you buy it from this link, I guess you can send an email to ask how much postage is to where you are.