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FANTASTIC FICTION at KGB reading series, hosts



Ellen Datlow and Matthew Kressel



present:



Kit Reed has two new books this season: Son of Destruction, her spontaneous human combustion novel, and a "best of" collection from the Wesleyan University Press: The Story Until Now-- A Great Big Book of Stories, 35 short stories ranging from her first published short story to six new and previously uncollected stories from the 2000. Her collection, What Wolves Know, was a 2011 Shirley Jackson Award nominee

and



Daniel A. Rabuzzi is the author of The Longing For Yount series: The Choir Boats and The Indigo Pheasant. His short fiction and poetry have appeared in Sybil's Garage, Shimmer, ChiZine, Lady Churchill's Rosebud Wristlet, Abyss & Apex, Goblin Fruit, Mannequin Envy, Bull Spec, Kaleidotrope, and Scheherezade's Bequest.



Wednesday May 15th at

KGB Bar, 85 East 4th Street (just off 2nd Ave, upstairs.)

New York, NY



www.kgbfantasticfiction.org

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Readings are free
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Books will be available for purchase from Word Bookstore





Sponsored in part by Cemetery Dance Publications

These are the Honorable Mentions that will appear in print at the back of The Best Horror of the Year volume five. Congratulations.
I also have a (very) long list that I will eventually post online only.


Barron, Laird “A Strange Form of Life,” ,” Dark Faith: Invocations.
Barron, Laird “DT,” A Season In Carcosa.
Barron, Laird “Hand of Glory,” (novella) The Book Of Cthulhu II.
Bell, Peter “A Midsummer’s Ramble in the Carpathians,” (novella) Strange Ephiphanies.
Bestwick, Simon “the Churn,” Black Static 27
Brownworth, Victoria A. “Ordinary Mayhem,” (novella) Night Shadows.
Campbell, Ramsey “The Moons,” The Devil’s Coattails: More Dispatches.
Chaon, Dan “How We Escaped Our Certain Fate,” 21st Century Dead.
Clark, Simon “The Shakespeare Curse,” Terror Tales of the Cotswolds.
Coleman, Emma “Home,” Dark Currents.
Demory, Sean “The Ballad of the Wayfaring Strange & the Dead Man’s Whore,” kindle
Dowling, Terry “Nightside Eye,” Cemetery Dance #66.
Ford, Jeffrey “Blood Drive,” After.
Ford, Jeffrey “The Wish Head,” Crackpot Palace.
Gaiman, Neil “Click-Clack the Rattlebag,” Audible.
Grabinski, Stefan “On the Hill of Roses,” On the Hill of Roses.
Hempel, Amy “A Full-Service Shelter,” Tin House 52.
Ingold, Jon “Cracks” Black Static 28.
Johnstone, Carole “The Pest House,” Black Static 28.
Jones, Stephen Graham “After the People Lights Have Gone Off,” Phantasmagorium
Jones, Stephen Graham “Notes From the Apocalypse,” Weird Tales #359.
King, Stephen and Hill, Joe “In the Tall Grass,” Esquire June/July/August.
Langan, John “Bloom,” Black Wings II.
Lansdale, Joe R. “The Tall Grass,” Dark Tales of Lost Civilizations.
Leslie, V.H. “Skein and Bone,” Black Static 31.
Link, Kelly “Two Houses,” Shadow Show.
Littlefield, Sophie “Jimmy’s Legacy,” Cemetery Dance #66.
Littlewood, Alison “In the Quiet and in the Dark,” Terror Tales of the Cotswolds.
Littlewood, Alison “The Swarm,” The Screaming Book of Horror.
Livings, Martin “Birthday Suit,” Living with the Dead
Marshall, Helen “Blessed,” Hair Side, Flesh Side.
McDougall, Sophia “Bells Ringing Under the Sea,” Dark Currents.
McMahon, Gary “Cinder Images,” Darker Minds.
Moore, Alison “Small Animals,” Nightjar Press Chapbook.
Morris, Mark “Biters,” 21st Century Dead.
Nahrung, Jason “The Last Boat to Eden,” Surviving the End.
O’Driscoll, Mike “Eyepennies,” chapbook.
Oliver, Reggie “Charm,” Terror Tales of the Cotswolds.
Ruby, Jacob “The Little Things,” Black Static 27.
Russell, Karen “Reeling for the Empire,” Tin House 54.
Ryan, Alan Peter “Amazonas,” Cemetery Dance Chapbook.
Ryan, Carrie “After the Cure,” After.
Sedia, Ekaterina “A Handsome Fellow,” Asimov’s Science Fiction Oct/Nov.
Sharma, Priya “Pearl, Bourbon Penn 4.
Shearman, Robert “Bedtime Stories for Yasmin,” Shadows & Tall Trees 4.
Shearman, Robert “Blue Crayon, Yellow Crayon,” Remember Why You Fear Me.
Tem, Steve Rasnic “Saguaro Night,” Ugly Behavior.
Thomas, Lee “The Hollow is Filled With Beautiful Monsters,” Night Shadows.
Warren, Kaaron “The Lighthouse Keepers’ Club,” Exotic Gothic 4.

Fearful Symmetries guidelines


This is a non-theme, all original anthology of about 125,000 words of terror and supernatural horror. I’m looking for all kinds of horror, but if you’re going to use a well worn trope, try to do something fresh with it. If you’ve read any volumes of The Best Horror of the Year, you’ll know that my taste is pretty eclectic, that I like variety, and that while I don’t mind violence, I don’t think it should be the point of a story. I don’t want vignettes but fully formed stories that are about something. I want to be creeped out.

The pay rate is 7 cents a word up to 10,000 words, but as the anthology is only 125,000 words long, I would prefer stories up to 7500 words.

The open reading period will run from May 1-May 31 2013. Submissions instructions coming soon.

FANTASTIC FICTION at KGB reading series, hosts

Ellen Datlow and Matthew Kressel

present:

Brian Keene is the author of over thirty novels, most recently Entombed and An Occurrence In Crazy Bear Valley. He also writes comic books for DC and Marvel, and continues work on his ongoing comic book series The Last Zombie.
Several of his novels and stories have been developed for film including Ghoul, Dark Hollow, The Ties That Bind, and Fast Zombies Suck.

and


Nick Mamatas is the author of several novels, including The Damned Highway co-authored with Brian Keene, and several dozen short stories. He also co-edited the anthologies The Future is Japanese with Masumi Washington and Haunted Legends with Ellen Datlow. His noir novel, Love is The Law, will be released in 2013.
Wednesday January 16, 7pm at
KGB Bar, 85 East 4th Street (just off 2nd Ave, upstairs.)
New York, NY

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Readings are free
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Word will be selling books by the readers

Sponsored in part by Cemetery Dance Publications

News about a big new project will be announced Monday.

In the meantime, I've been dealing with other issues:
my mom had a health scare last week but all is well.
I've got a colonoscopy scheduled for tomorrow so have eaten only chicken broth all day plus drinking water and elderflower soda (which I make with syrup and seltzer). Whoopie!
I've done the first round of editing the second story I've bought for Tor--"Rag and Bone" by Priya Sharma, which is scheduled to be published May 1st

Working with my webmaster to redesign my website and include a blog in/on it. Once that happens I'll probably leave livejournal and dreamwidth as LJ is full of spam and just pretty quiet these days. I don't have time to read it-I follow the people I want on google reader, twitter, and fb.

Mostly though, I'm reading: for the Best Horror of the Year #5;the Stoker Collection jury; and the Shirley Jackson Award.

Here are the panels I'm on:

Thursday November 1
9:00 p.m. OUR MONSTERS, OUR SELVES-VAUGHAN WEST
The best monsters—ghosts, vampires, werewolves, zombies—all begin as human beings, as US. All have their roots in the ideas of lost/strayed/stolen humanity. Freud alludes to the factor of semblance in The Uncanny, and that idea, with the tensions inherent in duality/dichotomy—an otherness both projected, and found within—is
crucial. Think of works such as Frankenstein, Jekyll and Hyde, and Dracula like a hall of mirrors, begetting their own reflections. Is our continued fascination with these monsters our way of grappling with our own demons? And which fantasy characters are most persuasive in convincing us that they are not really monsters; that they are, in reality, a reflection/distortion/creation of us?
James Alan Gardner (M), Lena Coakley, Ellen Datlow, Christopher
Golden, Richard A. Kirk, Holly Phillips

Friday November 2
8:00 p.m. GRAND YORK BALLROOM
AUTOGRAPH RECEPTION
Meet, talk, and get your books signed.
(No backpacks or wheeled carriers allowed in the signing hall. Park them outside in designated areas. Please be considerate of other attendees. We reserve the right to limit the number of books signed for any one person.)

Saturday November 3
1:00 p.m. CALL YOURSELF AN EDITOR? YORK B & C
How have the position and role of editors changed over the last twenty years? How are they likely to change over the next ten? The panel will look at how editors are viewed by their employers, by authors, and by consumers. Good editing should be invisible to readers; are editors becoming increasingly invisible to publishing
companies, except in their role of making acquisitions? How and why did this happen, if it did? A generation of authors has, to varying degrees, never undergone the traditional substantive/copy/line editing process. What effect has/will this have on the genre? And what of the generation of readers who’ve grown accustomed to works that have never seen a blue pencil? Does anyone care?
Jack Dann (M), Ellen Datlow, Gordon Van Gelder, Sharyn
November, Patrick Swenson, Ann VanderMeer.

4:00 –5.30 p.m. SPEAKING OF THE YEAR’S BEST . . .VAUGHAN
The panelists discusses what they feel are the most notable works to
emerge in 2012.
Gary K. Wolfe (M), Ellen Datlow, Jo Fletcher, Paula Guran,
Jonathan Strahan, Liza Groen Trombi.

First, Charles Tan has conducted mini-interviews with each contributor to After on SF Signal. Here are the first three, with Jane Yolen, Gregory Maguire, and Richard Bowes.

And here are the photos from the KGB reading October 17th, with John Kessel and S.G. Browne .

AFTER was featured in io9's Bookshelf Injection
All the Science Fiction and Fantasy Books You Can’t Miss in October!
http://tinyurl.com/8zket2a

Terri and I were interviewed in DA Kentner column THE READERS' WRITERS
plus it will be appearing slightly abbreviated through the GateHouse News Service

http://tinyurl.com/96wlhb5

And here's the video chat between me and Mike Davis:
http://tinyurl.com/9q2dppy

(you can see a furry tentacle like object moving in out and of the room -it's Bella's tail. She walked back and forth on my lap during some of the interview and although I tried to get her head high enough to be seen by the webcam, alas, only her tail made it into the show.

After: Nineteen Stories of Apocalypse & Dystopia -LAUNCH event October 11th

Books of Wonder presents a reading, discussion, and signing of
After: Nineteen Stories of Apocalypse & Dystopia edited by Ellen Datlow
and Terri Windling (Hyperion)
hosted by:
ELLEN DATLOW (co-editor)

with contributors:
RICHARD BOWES
CECIL CASTELLUCCI
MATTHEW KRESSEL
GREGORY MAGUIRE
SUSAN BETH PFEFFER
BETH REVIS
GENEVIEVE VALENTINE
N.K. JEMISIN

Where: Books of Wonder
18 West 18th Street
New York, NY 10011
(212) 989-3270


When: Thursday, October 11, 6-8pm

Hyperion is giving away 20 copies of AFTER on goodreads: http://www.goodreads.com/giveaway/show/31859-after

US only

Come and get em. Deadline is October 9th.