A small batch this month. We’ve got a post-Katrina New Orleans story from a man who witnessed the carnage first-hand: Albert Cowdrey; a humorous tale about a writer’s attempt to ghostwrite a memoir for a witch-queen from Ron Goulart; and a tale of xenoanthropology from Lawrence C. Connolly (returning to the pages of F&SF at last!). We also bought reprint rights to Paolo Bacigalupi’s “The Tamarisk Hunter,” which originally appeared in a special edition of High Country News, an environmental newspaper.

Oh, and somewhere in the nether-realms between monthly acquisitions, we bought a new Neil Gaiman story, which I don’t think I previously announced because it wasn’t finalized yet.

Don’t despair slushbombers: I don’t think Gordon’s gone through all that stuff yet (or at least hasn’t made final decisions on it, anyway).