Last night's open dinner here in Baltimore was great, good fun. There were fifteen of us, including me and Lisa Costello . @psursi took photos! Good conversation, though as always with these things it's a little hard to talk with an entire table at once. Good folks, a few old friends and a bunch of new ones. In more-or-less around the table order, we had John Zaharick, Karlo Yeager, Mark Siegal, curiouseve and duelce , Beth Tanner , Rip, Jeff Young, cypherindigo , Lisa Nohealani Morton and Chris, @psursi and his wife Stephanie, and Deanna Hoak and her daughter. What a great crowd. We talked about some fun stuff, and some serious stuff, and enjoyed semi-Irish pub grub at Ryan's Daughter . Photos © 2012 Peter Sursi and Jeff Young. Used with permission. In other news, I am pleased to announce that via my agent Jennifer Jackson, Hayakawa Publishing has acquired Japanese magazine rights for my Mainspring novella " Chain of Stars ," which they intend to publish in the November 2012 issue of SF Magazine . My thanks again to Subterranean Press for giving that story a market home in the first place.