I'm delighted to announce that I'm Editor GOH at Fantasticon 2012, The annual convention for science fiction, fantasy & horror in Copenhagen. It takes place June 1-3rd. My co-guest is British sf writer Alastair Reynolds.
Here's more info: Fantasticon 2012


I was last in Copenhagen in the early 70s and am very much looking forward to returning.

I'll be missing Book Expo, which will be a shame, but what would you choose? ;-)

FANTASTIC FICTION at KGB reading series, hosts

Ellen Datlow and Matthew Kressel

present:

N. K. Jemisin debut novel, The Hundred Thousand Kingdoms, won the Locus award and was nominated for the Hugo, Nebula, and World Fantasy Awards. Her fourth novel, The Killing Moon, is forthcoming in May from Orbit Books. You can read some of her short fiction and excerpts of each novel at nkjemisin.com.


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Livia Llewellyn is the author of the short story collection Engines of Desire: Tales of Love & Other Horrors, published by Lethe Press. Her fiction has appeared in numerous magazines and anthologies, including Subterranean, ChiZine, and Postscripts. She's currently working on her first novel.

Wednesday February 15th, 7pm at
KGB Bar, 85 East 4th Street (just off 2nd Ave, upstairs.)
www.kgbfantasticfiction.org

Books will be available for purchase thanks to Bluestockings Bookstore
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Readings are free
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Books will be provided by Mobile Libris

Partially supported by Cemetery Dance publications

Call for Submissions

I am editing the anthology series Best Horror of the Year (Night Shade Books) and am currently reading for the fifth volume, which will include all material published in 2012.

I am looking for stories from all branches of horror: from the traditional-supernatural to the borderline, including high-tech sf horror, supernatural stories, psychological horror, dark thrillers, or anything else that might qualify. If in doubt, send it. This is a reprint anthology so I am only reading material published in or about to be published in 2012. Submission deadline for stories is December 1st 2012. Anything sent after this deadline will reach me too late. If a magazine, anthology, or collection you’re in or you publish is coming out in December, you can send me galleys or manuscripts so that I can judge the stories in time. No email submissions. I strongly suggest that authors check with their publishers that they are sending review copies to me as I don’t have time or energy to nag publishers to get me material. I request it once (maybe twice) and that’s it.

There will be a summation of "the year in horror" in the front of the volume. This will include novels, nonfiction, art books, and "odds and ends"-- material that doesn't fit elsewhere but that I feel might interest the horror reader. But I must be aware of this material in order to mention it. The deadline for receipt of material for this section is December 15th, 2012.
Ellen Datlow
Best Horror of the Year Volume Five
PMB 391
511 Avenue of the Americas
New York, NY 10011-8436

****I do not want to receive manuscripts from authors of stories from venues that it’s likely I already receive (like Interzone, Black Static, Crimewave, Cemetery Dance, Postscripts, Weird Tales, F&SF and the other digests, etc) or from anthologies and collections, unless I don't have or can’t get that anthology or collection. Please contact your publisher and ask him/her to send me the magazine or book.
For online publications, I prefer print submissions, so if your publisher doesn’t send them out please do so yourself. I will also accept printouts of stories produced and first “published” in 2012 as podcasts.

Please do not send a SASE. If I choose a story you will be informed. If you want to confirm that I‘ve received something, enclose a self-addressed-stamped postcard and I will let you know the date it arrived. For stories that appear on the web, please send me (or have the publisher send me) print-outs of your story.
thanks

Table of Contents
The Best Horror of the Year Volume Four


The Little Green God of Agony Stephen King

Stay Leah Bobet

The Moraine Simon Bestwick

Blackwood’s Baby Laird Barron

Looker David Nickle

The Show Priya Sharma

Mulberry Boys Margo Lanagan

Roots and All Brian Hodge

Final Girl Theory A. C. Wise

Omphalos Livia Llewellyn

Dermot Simon Bestwick

Black Feathers Alison J. Littlewood

Final Verse Chet Williamson

In the Absence of Murdock Terry Lamsley

You Become the Neighborhood Glen Hirshberg

In Paris, In the Mouth of Kronos John Langan

Little Pig Anna Taborska

The Ballad of Ballard and Sandrine Peter Straub

Gemma Files and Ekaterina Sedia gave great readings: Photos here

I've been waiting for the Magick4Terri auction to end to announce this as I didn't want to distract from that (and some of these titles were donated to the auction). But now it's over (and extremely successful) so .....


You deserve to give yourself a great gift to yourself for xmas! An anthology that I edited (or co-edited).
I recently moved nine cartons of other people's books into my storage lockers and returned with a bunch of my own anthologies to sell.

The books are all either out of print or hard to acquire. No sales outside of the US because it currently costs $20-25 dollars a book (eg one hc of YBFH) to ship & I feel that's an unreasonable amount for a buyer to pay.


All titles are offered signed and personalized if you wish; shipping in US is included in the listed price. I'm going to sell each book for less than cover price plus $4.00 shipping per mass market paperback/$6.00 per trade paperback and hardcover.

Again SHIPPING IS INCLUDED IN THE PRICES BELOW.
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I attended the annual Camden on the Sea Christmas festivities (mostly serving coffee) and rode through some glorious scenery, shopped at a couple of antique malls where I bought a wonderful array of interesting (mostly small) vintage tools.
photographs from Maine. It was a relaxing several days visiting with friends.

Bookgasm just reviewed Supernatural Noir (Hint hint: it would make a great stocking stuffer --if you've got a big enough stocking).

Up to Maine tomorrow morning for a few days. Doubt I'll be online much as I've trouble finding my bookmarks on my netbook. Back Tuesday night. Cats have napped in the luggage, I've loaded it up with Best Horror reading (ugh).

I hope the two of them (cats) will eagerly greet the house/catsitter and forgive me for leaving them again.