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FANTASTIC FICTION at KGB reading series, hosts
Ellen Datlow and Matthew Kressel
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Scott Westerfeld is best known for the Uglies series. His latest book, the New York Times-bestselling Leviathan, won both the Locus Award and the Aurealis Award for best YA novel of 2009. The series continues in October 2010 with Behemoth.
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Susan Beth Pfeffer, who with the publication of her novel, This World We Live In, has completed her Last Survivors Trilogy, which also includes the New York Times Best Selling Novel, Life As We Knew It and The Dead And The Gone. Susan’s next book, Blood Wounds, will be published by Houghton Mifflin Harcourt in the Fall of 2011.
Books will be for sale by Bluestockings
Wednesday September 15th, 7pm at
KGB Bar, 85 East 4th Street (just off 2nd Ave, upstairs.)
www.kgbfantasticfiction.org
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Readings are free
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Sponsored in part by Cemetery Dance publications
Ellen Datlow and Matthew Kressel
present:
Scott Westerfeld is best known for the Uglies series. His latest book, the New York Times-bestselling Leviathan, won both the Locus Award and the Aurealis Award for best YA novel of 2009. The series continues in October 2010 with Behemoth.
&
Susan Beth Pfeffer, who with the publication of her novel, This World We Live In, has completed her Last Survivors Trilogy, which also includes the New York Times Best Selling Novel, Life As We Knew It and The Dead And The Gone. Susan’s next book, Blood Wounds, will be published by Houghton Mifflin Harcourt in the Fall of 2011.
Books will be for sale by Bluestockings
Wednesday September 15th, 7pm at
KGB Bar, 85 East 4th Street (just off 2nd Ave, upstairs.)
www.kgbfantasticfiction.org
Subscribe to our mailing list:
http://groups.yahoo.com/group/kgbfantasticfiction/
Readings are free
Forward to friends at your own discretion.
Sponsored in part by Cemetery Dance publications
Fri 1200 Rm P1: In conversation: Ellen Datlow and Jonathan Strahan;
Fri 1500 Rm 213: Haunted legends reading--Kaaron Warren and Stephen Dedman
Saturday 1200 Room 212
But is it horror?
What is horror fiction and who decides? The authors? The readers? The publishers and editors? The marketers and booksellers? Does the horror genre even truly exist?
Joshua Bilmes, Ellen Datlow, Scott Edelman, Richard Harland, Rocky Wood
Sat 1600 Rm 210: Tombstones and chapbooks;
Tombstones and chapbooks
Is the small press the real home of contemporary horror fiction? If so, what do the blockbusters Under the Dome and Twilight represent?
Alan Baxter, Ginjer Buchanan, Bill Congreve, Ellen Datlow, Felicity Dowker
Sun 1000 Rm 203: YA speculative fiction: industry overview and insight;
YA speculative fiction: Industry overview and insights
What’s the state of play in YA Speculative Fiction? The view from publishing, writing and bookselling.
Zoe Walton, Kate Forsyth, Bec Kavanagh, Ellen Datlow, Helen Merrick (chair)
Sun 1100 Rm 201: Signing;
Mon 1000 Rm 213: How we edit;
How we edit
In many ways the editor has one of the most invisible professions in publishing. What exactly is it that an editor does? From the first encounter with an author to the publication of the completed book, we take you step by step through the working life of a professional editor - and how that job can vary from book to book, story to story, and author to author.
Jonathan Strahan, Ellen Datlow, Amanda Pillar, Simon Spanton
Mon 1200 Rm 201: Kaffeeklatsche;
Mon 1300 Rm P3: A house made from stories: building the anthology;
A house made from stories: Building the anthology
How does an editor construct the perfect original anthology of science fiction? How do you develop the subject matter or theme, how do you select and approach the contributors, and how do you tie all of the elements together into a single cohesive work? A panel of editors reflect on their own experiences to help form a blueprint for the perfect science fiction anthology.
Ellen Datlow, Robert Silverberg, Alisa Krasnostein, Jonathan Strahan, Jack Dann
Mon 1500 Rm 204: Caught in the slipstream: fiction between genres
Caught in the slipstream: Fiction between genres
An increasing number of works don’t seem to fit comfortably within genre boundaries - stories that use science fiction, fantasy or horror tropes, in combination or as an unusual aspect to otherwise non-speculative fiction. Some are excursions into unfamiliar territory by experienced SF authors, while others are new expressions from truly unique voices that can not be categorised. A discussion of crossover and slipstream fiction that points out the best of what’s out there, why each piece succeeds, and how it expands the horizons of readers.
Ian Nichols (mod), John Clute, Ellen Datlow
Fri 1500 Rm 213: Haunted legends reading--Kaaron Warren and Stephen Dedman
Saturday 1200 Room 212
But is it horror?
What is horror fiction and who decides? The authors? The readers? The publishers and editors? The marketers and booksellers? Does the horror genre even truly exist?
Joshua Bilmes, Ellen Datlow, Scott Edelman, Richard Harland, Rocky Wood
Sat 1600 Rm 210: Tombstones and chapbooks;
Tombstones and chapbooks
Is the small press the real home of contemporary horror fiction? If so, what do the blockbusters Under the Dome and Twilight represent?
Alan Baxter, Ginjer Buchanan, Bill Congreve, Ellen Datlow, Felicity Dowker
Sun 1000 Rm 203: YA speculative fiction: industry overview and insight;
YA speculative fiction: Industry overview and insights
What’s the state of play in YA Speculative Fiction? The view from publishing, writing and bookselling.
Zoe Walton, Kate Forsyth, Bec Kavanagh, Ellen Datlow, Helen Merrick (chair)
Sun 1100 Rm 201: Signing;
Mon 1000 Rm 213: How we edit;
How we edit
In many ways the editor has one of the most invisible professions in publishing. What exactly is it that an editor does? From the first encounter with an author to the publication of the completed book, we take you step by step through the working life of a professional editor - and how that job can vary from book to book, story to story, and author to author.
Jonathan Strahan, Ellen Datlow, Amanda Pillar, Simon Spanton
Mon 1200 Rm 201: Kaffeeklatsche;
Mon 1300 Rm P3: A house made from stories: building the anthology;
A house made from stories: Building the anthology
How does an editor construct the perfect original anthology of science fiction? How do you develop the subject matter or theme, how do you select and approach the contributors, and how do you tie all of the elements together into a single cohesive work? A panel of editors reflect on their own experiences to help form a blueprint for the perfect science fiction anthology.
Ellen Datlow, Robert Silverberg, Alisa Krasnostein, Jonathan Strahan, Jack Dann
Mon 1500 Rm 204: Caught in the slipstream: fiction between genres
Caught in the slipstream: Fiction between genres
An increasing number of works don’t seem to fit comfortably within genre boundaries - stories that use science fiction, fantasy or horror tropes, in combination or as an unusual aspect to otherwise non-speculative fiction. Some are excursions into unfamiliar territory by experienced SF authors, while others are new expressions from truly unique voices that can not be categorised. A discussion of crossover and slipstream fiction that points out the best of what’s out there, why each piece succeeds, and how it expands the horizons of readers.
Ian Nichols (mod), John Clute, Ellen Datlow
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This is the final TOC (although possibly not the final order of stories) for my adult vampirism/vampire anthology being published by Tor in the fall of 2011. There are two reprints, the stories by Carol Emshwiller and Reggie Oliver. The rest are new.
Introduction by Ellen Datlow
All You Can Do is Breathe by Kaaron Warren
Needles by Elizabeth Bear
Baskerville’s Midgets by Reggie Oliver
Blood Yesterday, Blood Tomorrow by Richard Bowes
X For Demetrious by Steve Duffy
Keeping Corky by Melanie Tem
Shelf-Life by Lisa Tuttle
Caius by Barry N. Malzberg & Bill Pronzini
Sweet Sorrow by Barbara Roden
First Breath by Nicole J. LeBoeuf
Toujours by Kathe Koja
Miri by Steve Rasnic Tem
Mrs. Jones by Carol Emshwiller
Bread and Water by Michael Cisco
Mulberry Boys by Margo Lanagan
The Third Always Beside You by John Langan
The Siphon by Laird Barron
Introduction by Ellen Datlow
All You Can Do is Breathe by Kaaron Warren
Needles by Elizabeth Bear
Baskerville’s Midgets by Reggie Oliver
Blood Yesterday, Blood Tomorrow by Richard Bowes
X For Demetrious by Steve Duffy
Keeping Corky by Melanie Tem
Shelf-Life by Lisa Tuttle
Caius by Barry N. Malzberg & Bill Pronzini
Sweet Sorrow by Barbara Roden
First Breath by Nicole J. LeBoeuf
Toujours by Kathe Koja
Miri by Steve Rasnic Tem
Mrs. Jones by Carol Emshwiller
Bread and Water by Michael Cisco
Mulberry Boys by Margo Lanagan
The Third Always Beside You by John Langan
The Siphon by Laird Barron
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Tomorrow I leave for Australia till September 9th. I'll have a borrowed Aussie cell phone so will be able to contact people before I get to Melbourne. I'll be online periodically to stay in touch with my house sitter and family and check for important email. Don't know how much I'll be posting.
Both anthos handed in (yay).
My dad should be either back in the nursing home or about to be tomorrow. I'm a little worried because they've taken him off coumadin because of bleeding and so there's a chance of another stroke. They're putting him on more aspirin and all I can do is keep fingers and toes crossed that he remains stable. I spoke to him today and he's sounding alert so I know they've taken him off the sedatives they had him on when they first had him in the hospital last Sunday.
Anyway, at least I don't have to worry about work things while away.
So right now, I'm eating what leftover fruit and other perishables I can and will instruct house/catsitter to eat or toss everything else!
Both anthos handed in (yay).
My dad should be either back in the nursing home or about to be tomorrow. I'm a little worried because they've taken him off coumadin because of bleeding and so there's a chance of another stroke. They're putting him on more aspirin and all I can do is keep fingers and toes crossed that he remains stable. I spoke to him today and he's sounding alert so I know they've taken him off the sedatives they had him on when they first had him in the hospital last Sunday.
Anyway, at least I don't have to worry about work things while away.
So right now, I'm eating what leftover fruit and other perishables I can and will instruct house/catsitter to eat or toss everything else!
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