I haven't posted here for a long time and this is hardly a cheery way to break that silence. But I just thought I should say that my much loved elder brother, Joel Rosenberg, died last night very suddenly. He popped in here from time to time and I know that some on my f-list were fans of his work. He was the sci-fi/fantasy novelist Joel Rosenberg, not the evangelical Christian novelist Joel C. Rosenberg.

I still can't believe he's really gone. I was thinking this morning "It's so sudden. It's just like when Uncle Bob died when we were in high school - such a shock. I have to call Joel and tell him it's like when Uncle Bob died. He's the only one who will remember that." And then, of course, realized how absurd that was.

I'm off to Minneapolis middle of tonight/early tomorrow morning.