I’m your little glowing friend

I’m pretty pleased to report that the “short” list of 33 1/3 proposals that are still in the running was posted last night, and my “Flood” proposal is still kicking. There were two other proposals for “Flood” in the original list, and I only know that’s mine because I got a thumbs-up email, but whoever proposed “Lincoln” also survived so TMBG has two chances to represent (although I’m sure there is essentially no chance they will both get published, for diversity’s sake). Series editor David Barker managed to read 597 proposals in six weeks and cull them to 170, and I don’t envy him and his colleagues the task of now getting that down to 20-something for contract. Anyway, the list is still as varied as the original (like, Britney is still there, twice), confirming that people must have turned in some phenomenal proposals that recommended themselves far beyond the canon status of the proposed album. Really looking forward to seeing what comes out of it.