The Coyote Road: Trickster Tales

[ellen_datlow]

The Coyote Road: Trickster Tales edited by me and Terri Windling (Viking) is the third in our "mythic fiction" series for Young Adult with crossover to adult readers. The cover art and interior illustrations to each story are by the remarkable Charles Vess, Greenman Press

The Coyote Road: Trickster Tales
Table of Contents
Preface by Ellen Datlow and Terri Windling
Introduction by Terri Windling

One Odd Shoe Pat Murphy

Coyote Woman Carolyn Dunn

Wagers of Gold Mountain Steve Berman

The Listeners Nina Kiriki Hoffman

Realer than You Christopher Barzak

The Fiddler of Bayou Teche Delia Sherman

A Tale for the Short Days Richard Bowes

Friday Night at St. Cecilia's Ellen Klages

The Fortune Teller Patricia A. McKillip

How Raven Made His Bride Theodora Goss

Crow Roads Charles de Lint

The Chamber Music of Animals Katherine Vaz

Uncle Bobs Visits Caroline Stevermer

Uncle Tompa Midori Snyder

Cat of the World Michael Cadnum

Honored Guest Ellen Kushner

Always the Same Story Elizabeth E. Wein

The Señorita and the Cactus Thorn Kim Antieau

Black Rock Blues Will Shetterly

The Constable of Abal Kelly Link

A Reversal of Fortune Holly Black

God Clown Carol Emshwiller

The Other Labyrinth Jedediah Berry

The Dreaming Wind Jeffrey Ford

Kawaku Anansi Walks the World’s Web Jane Yolen

The Evolution of Trickster Stories Among the Dogs of North Park After the Change Kij Johnson

Further Reading
The book was released in July and has received some reviews, but disappointingly, for some reason Publishers Weekly and Library Journal did not review it.   

Comments

LJ is like crack

[nick-kaufmann.livejournal.com]

See? It's only your first day and already you can't stop posting!

[cassiphone.livejournal.com]

Hi Ellen!

Some of the individual stories from The Coyote Road have been reviewed/recommended over at lastshortstory, a project where four of us are attempting to read every spec fic short story published this year. Only the top stories that catch our attention are being blogged there!

Cheers,
Tansy

[ellen-datlow.livejournal.com]

Hi Tansy,
Thanks--I'll check that out.

Cool!

[superqueeroes.livejournal.com]

I love reading Steve Berman and Ellen Kushner, so I'll have to check it out.

Ellen

Re: Cool!

[ellen-datlow.livejournal.com]

Ellen (another Ellen in the field? Oh my....) Ellen's rule! :-) I hope you like the book.

[melissajm.livejournal.com]

Sounds like a good one.
I love your cat icon!

Bella Bella Bella

[ellen-datlow.livejournal.com]

That's my sweetie Bella, of whom I have taken far too many photos since I've had her (about three years now, I think--I'm terrible at remembering how old my cats are).

Re: Bella Bella Bella

[melissajm.livejournal.com]

3 already? I still think of her as "your new kitten."

Re: Bella Bella Bella

[ellen-datlow.livejournal.com]

Just checked and she was born around May or June 2005 I think. So 2 1/2-I don't want to age the girl.

[14theditch.livejournal.com]

Ellen: Nice to see you've got the livejournal up and running. Hope you enjoy it!!

[ellen-datlow.livejournal.com]

Jeff,
It's definitely easier in some ways than the various BBs I'm on.

[fastfwd.livejournal.com]

What a gorgeous book! Inside and out!

[ellen-datlow.livejournal.com]

Thank you Pat!!!

[safewrite.livejournal.com]

Lovely cover - pickupable. (is that a word?) Lovely TOC. Welcome to lj!

[ellen-datlow.livejournal.com]

Thanks Wendy. If I could figure out how to link to urls I'd include some of the reviews so far. ;-)

[mjlayman.livejournal.com]

The only problem with your Vess link is the ampersand between the angle bracket and the a at the front. It should start "<a href" (and I'd finish the sentence with a period).

[ellen-datlow.livejournal.com]

Just did it and no dice.

[mjlayman.livejournal.com]

That's weird. I put URLs in my posts all the time. Oh, you know, when you go to edit, is there a linebreak after "website"? Delete the invisible linebreak and see if it works that way.

[ellen-datlow.livejournal.com]

There isn't any linebreak.

[mjlayman.livejournal.com]

Okay, I'm going to take it as is and put it here:
Charle's Vess' website Greenman Press (http://www.greenmanpress.com/home.html)

The only different way I would do it (and I would have said this was individual choice, but maybe not) is to snug Charles (hmm, and spell it right), up to the >. Let's see, I'll c&p it again and delete that space:

Charles Vess' website Greenman Press (http://www.greenmanpress.com/home.html)

[mjlayman.livejournal.com]

They're both showing up fine here, so that is an individual choice.

Okay, next test: I'll c&p your line into a test post on my LJ.

[mjlayman.livejournal.com]

Nope, that works fine. See here (http://mjlayman.livejournal.com/119059.html).

Are you sure that in the edit box there isn't a linebreak? It doesn't show up with one line ending at website and the rest on the next line?

[ellen-datlow.livejournal.com]

I have to get someone over here to show me what I'm doing wrong. THanks for tryhing Marilee.

[mjlayman.livejournal.com]

I just looked at the source on both your site and mine. Your URL has been edited enough to have extra non-displaying characters in it (which is where the ampersand came from). Try deleting what's there and putting it back in properly from scratch.

[pm-again.livejournal.com]

If you're using the LJ editor one approach is to highlight the word website.

Then click the create/edit link icon. Then type in the url and click ok.

The result would be that when someone clicks on the word website they would be directed to that url.

[ellen-datlow.livejournal.com]

First thing I tried was the create link and it did not work correctly for me.

[ellen-datlow.livejournal.com]

The mad blonde figured it out...LJ gives the option of using rich text or html. The urls you both gave me were for html not usable in the rich text format of LJ. Once I edited in html all fell into place (after I remembered my html experience from over 10 years ago at OMNI). Thanks Marilee and madblonde :-)

[pm-again.livejournal.com]

I wonder if PW chose to review the other book instead of this one.

At any rate, perhaps if folk will contact them they will consider it...

[ellen-datlow.livejournal.com]

It doesn't work that way. I believe it must have fallen through the cracks. It's too late--they don't review books after publication. It's a trade review journal and is mostly used for pre-orders by bookstores and libraries.

[pm-again.livejournal.com]

I'm very sorry to hear this.

I think that policy ought to be revised if/when the error is on their end.