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Guidelines to Fearful Symmetries--open reading period

Sun, 12 May 2013 15:12:02 GMT

Fearful Symmetries guidelines

Renowned editor and anthologist Ellen Datlow will be editing an unthemed, all original anthology of terror and supernatural fiction for CZP, Fearful Symmetries, scheduled to be published in Spring 2014. (The project was funded through Kickstarter by your generous donations!)

Ellen says: "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."

Payment is 7 cents/word. Up to 10,000 words, BUT Ellen would prefer stories up to 7500 words. No reprints.

A large percentage of the stories have already been solicited, but we have a small window for open submissions, from May 1 - May 31, 2013. Please send your best work.

We are using the Moksha Submissions System. You can submit here:

http://submissions.chizinepub.com/fearful-symmetries/submit/
F.A.Q

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Fantastic Fiction at KGB May 15: Kit Reed and Daniel A. Rabuzzi

Thu, 18 Apr 2013 03:53:04 GMT

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

Subscribe to our mailing list:
http://groups.yahoo.com/group/kgbfantasticfiction/
Readings are free
Forward to friends at your own discretion.

Books will be available for purchase from Word Bookstore

Sponsored in part by Cemetery Dance Publications

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Richard Bowes & Alaya Dawn Johnson at KGB 4/17

Thu, 11 Apr 2013 15:51:19 GMT

FANTASTIC FICTION at KGB reading series, hosts

Ellen Datlow and Matthew Kressel

present:

Richard Bowes winner of two World Fantasy Awards, an International Horror Guild, and a Million Writer Award. Recent and forthcoming short story appearances include: F&SF, Icarus, Lightspeed and the anthologies, Ghost's: Recent Hauntings, Handsome Devil, Hauntings, Where Thy Dark Eye Glances, and Weird Detectives: Recent Investigations. His new novel Dust Devil on a Quiet Street
will be published July 2n by Lethe Press which also just reissued his Lambda Award winning novel Minions of the Moon. Also out this year will be two short story collections: The Queen, the Cambion and Seven Others and If Angels Fight.

and

Alaya Dawn Johnson is the author of the Spirit Binders series (Racing the Dark and The Burning City) and the Zephyr Hollis novels (Moonshine and Wicked City). The Summer Prince is her official YA debut, which Kirkus has called "luminous" in a starred review. She is currently working on her follow-up YA novel, set in
an elite DC private school during a flu pandemic.
.
Wednesday April 17th, 7pm at
KGB Bar, 85 East 4th Street (just off 2nd Ave, upstairs.)
New York, NY
www.kgbfantasticfiction.org
Subscribe to our mailing list:
http://groups.yahoo.com/group/kgbfantasticfiction/
Readings are free
Forward to friends at your own discretion.

Word will be selling books by the readers

Sponsored in part by Cemetery Dance Publications

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Honorable Mentions 2012

Mon, 01 Apr 2013 19:40:34 GMT

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.

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Cecil Castellucci and Gordon Dahlquist to read at KGB March 20, 2013

Thu, 17 Jan 2013 04:31:38 GMT

FANTASTIC FICTION at KGB reading series, hosts

Ellen Datlow and Matthew Kressel

present:

Cecil Castellucci is the author of books and graphic novels for young adults including The Year of the Beasts and First Day on Earth. She lives in Los Angeles and is the YA editor of the Los Angeles Review of Books. Tin Star, book one in her first Science Fiction novel is out this Fall. She is currently at work on book two in the series, A Stone in the Sky.

and

Gordon Dahlquist is a New York-based playwright and novelist, author of The Glass Books of the Dream Eaters, The Dark Volume, and The Chemickal Marriage. The Different Girl is his first book for younger readers. He is fast at work on another.

Wednesday February 20th, 7pm at

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

New York, NY

www.kgbfantasticfiction.org

Subscribe to our mailing list:
http://groups.yahoo.com/group/kgbfantasticfiction/
Readings are free
Forward to friends at your own discretion.

Word will be selling books by the readers

Sponsored in part by Cemetery Dance Publications

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Fearful Symmetries guidelines

Mon, 14 Jan 2013 21:23:56 GMT

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.

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Telling Tales, a Clarion west fundraising anthology

Mon, 07 Jan 2013 04:43:48 GMT

Hi all. The January Locus mentioned that I'm editing a fundraising anthology for Clarion West. The title is Telling Tales-there will be a subtitle, but we're not sure what it will be yet.
It is going to be all reprints by former Clarion West students, with afterwords by one of the teachers who taught during their year. It will be published by Hydra House in time for the 30th anniversary of the annual workshop. (at which I'm teaching)

Telling Tales edited by Ellen Datlow

Table of Contents

The Parrot Man by Kathleen Ann Goonan
Absalom’s Mother by Louise Marley
Mulberry Boys by Margo Lanagan
The Fate of Mice by Susan Palwick
My She by Mary Rosenblum
Bitter Dreams by Ian McHugh
Leviathan Wept by Daniel Abraham
Start the Clock by Ben Rosenbaum
I Hold My Father’s Paws by David D. Levine
Beluthahatchie by Andy Duncan
Another Word For Map Is Faith by Christopher Rowe
The Adventures of Captain Black Heart Wentworth: A Nautical Tail
by Rachel Swirsky
A Boy in Cathyland by David Marusek
The Water Museum by Nisi Shawl
The Evolution of Trickster Stories Among the Dogs of North Park After the Change
by Kij Johnson
The Lineaments of Gratified Desire by Ysabeau Wilce

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Nick Mamatas & Brian Keene read at KGB Bar January 16

Thu, 20 Dec 2012 06:22:06 GMT

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

www.kgbfantasticfiction.org
Subscribe to our mailing list:
http://groups.yahoo.com/group/kgbfantasticfiction/
Readings are free
Forward to friends at your own discretion.

Word will be selling books by the readers

Sponsored in part by Cemetery Dance Publications

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Fearful Symmetries--a Horror Anthology

Mon, 10 Dec 2012 20:19:32 GMT

Ellen Datlow Teams with ChiZine Publications for Kickstarter-funded Anthology

TORONTO, Ontario (December 10, 2012) — Ellen Datlow has announced the beginning of a Kickstarter campaign to fund a new horror anthology. Titled Fearful Symmetries, it will be published by ChiZine Publications in early 2014.

Given the rapidly changing publishing market, Datlow decided to turn to Kickstarter as an experiment to see if it could fund the project. The campaign will go toward the editing, layout, and production of the book, as well as offering professional rates to the authors. Datlow selected ChiZine Publications based on the quality of their books and distribution.

“This project is close to my heart,” says Datlow, “which is why I’ve decided to appeal to the public through Kickstarter. And while I have a stable of writers whose work I love, I want to give a chance to new talent that I may not be aware of. I want them to write the stories they’ve always wanted to and perhaps couldn’t because there was no venue for them.”

Unlike a lot of her anthologies, Fearful Symmetries will not have a theme. Datlow intends to solicit work from well-known horror writers, as well as those selected during an open reading period, something Datlow does not do often. If the campaign is a success, Fearful Symmetries will be released as a trade paperback and eBook, and is expected to be 125,000 words long.

The Kickstarter campaign can be found at www.fearfulsymmetries.com

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Something is coming

Thu, 06 Dec 2012 23:27:37 GMT

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.

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Voya gives AFTER a very nice review

Sun, 25 Nov 2012 21:31:17 GMT

AFTER: NINETEEN STORIES OF APOCALYPSE AND DYSTOPIA
Editors: Datlow, Ellen and Terri Windling
ISBN: 978-1-4231-4619-3
Review Issue Date: December 1, 2012

Any librarian who has been asked for books just like The Hunger Games will appreciate how this collection of short stories will satiate readers hungry for tales of futuristic woe. As the title implies, these stories do not describe the (political, environmental, socioeconomic) disasters but instead describe events post-apocalypse, what life is like afterward. The variety of tales and writing styles is wide. Cecil Castellucci offers a story where cities have vanished and knowledge of science is lost, but society somehow still runs via strict rules about cross-breeding. Jeffrey Ford presents a coming-of-age tale where becoming an adult means getting your own firearm. Not that far-fetched, but when it is law that everyone must be armed, and when teachers joke around by aiming their handguns at students who misbehave in class, things can get dicey fast. Genevieve Valentine presents a tale where the media manipulates survivors for the government, staging wars, family reunions, and touching scenes of bravery and hope. The actors in these mini-movies best remain anonymous because terrible things could happen if the public finds out about them.

The sixteen other tales cover everything from lycanthropy and mutation to the lengths one would go to find lost family members. These are good, smart, well-written science fiction pieces. They throw readers into the tale, and they must figure out things from context as they read. Teens seeking a dystopian fix, as well fans of science fiction, will be well pleased by this book.—Geri Diorio.

For any lover of dystopian or post-apocalyptic literature, After is a must-read. The disasters in the collection are incredibly varied and creative. Despite the bleak premise, the stories do not all strike a gloomy tone; the authors capture many emotions, ranging from poignant to comical; from stirring to chilling. Even given the short length of each piece, the characters are all very easy to get attached to. Each story will leave readers craving more of the author’s work. 5Q, 4P.—Holly Storm, Teen Reviewer.

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My World Fantasy Convention schedule

Tue, 23 Oct 2012 14:50:41 GMT

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.

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Regarding my consulting with Tor.com

Mon, 22 Oct 2012 20:18:30 GMT

I've already received more than one email or comment on a post asking if I'm reading novel manuscripts for Tor, if I can check in the Tor.com (or Tor) slush pile for someone's story/novel.

No I cannot. The reasons being:

1) I am consulting for TOR.COM --that is the website, which publishes short stories not novels. I am not buying novels. I did consult for Tor, acquiring and editing novels around 2000-2005.

2) I have not been hired to look at the Tor.com (or TOR) slush pile. There are slush readers for that. (and just fyi, I believe there are a couple of new ones, and so Tor's hoping to catch up soon).

3) I am soliciting short stories from specific writers. As I am only buying a handful of stories annually (at this point) I am not reading unsolicited submissions. If you are someone whose work I've bought in the past you can query me.

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Photos from Kessel/Browne reading and AFTER interviews

Fri, 19 Oct 2012 00:30:18 GMT

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 .

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Hostile questions

Mon, 08 Oct 2012 19:39:00 GMT

Here I answer some Hostile Questions
and there are only a few more hours to enter the goodreads free giveaway of 20 copies of After

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Interviews and reviews

Wed, 03 Oct 2012 02:32:42 GMT

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.

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Mini review of Best Horror #4

Tue, 02 Oct 2012 14:24:13 GMT

From Book Slut/ Teenage Horror
September column by Colleen Mondor
http://tinyurl.com/9o3asah
Older teens should also check out The Best Horror of the Year Volume Four, edited by Ellen Datlow. It includes a host of stories by the likes of Stephen King (although I think his story is one of the weakest), Margo Lanagan, Peter Straub, A.C. Wise (who tells us what happened to the "final girl" in a particularly frightful horror movie), and Simon Bestwick (consider this the antithesis to Ray Bradbury's "The Foghorn"). Datlow's anthologies continue to be standouts and are always a safe bet for frightful reads of epic proportions.

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

Sun, 30 Sep 2012 17:48:24 GMT

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

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Live video chat with me Sunday September 30 6pm EST

Tue, 25 Sep 2012 20:57:42 GMT

I'm going to be doing a live video chat with Mike Davis of Lovecraft e-zine this Sunday evening. In order to watch it live, all you have to do is to go to www.lovecraftzine.com -- the very top post, at 6pm EST, will have a Youtube video.

You click the play button on the Youtube video, and you'll be watching it live.

If you have questions for me, you can enter them in the comments on that page, and I Mike will pass them on to me. Easy peasy.

It will also be recorded for those who can't watch it live.
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AFTER goodreads giveaway

Mon, 24 Sep 2012 17:29:55 GMT

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.

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Last Short Story Podcast of a discussion about AFTER

Sun, 23 Sep 2012 03:58:45 GMT

A wonderful podcast from Last Short Story: A Review of Short SF/F:
Ian Mond, Jonathan Strahan, and Tansy Rayner Roberts discuss in detail :
"The Segment," Genevieve Valentine
"Valedictorian," N.K. Jemisin
"Blood Drive," Jeffrey Ford
"The Easthound," Nalo Hopkinson
"Fake Plastic Trees," Caitlin R. Kiernan
"The Marker," Cecil Castellucci
And talk a bit about the overall anthology, which they love:

A monthly review of short science fiction and fantasy
Pre-season Episode 2: After, Nineteen Stories of Apocalypse and Dystopia Ellen Datlow & Terri Windling eds (Hyperion)
http://tinyurl.com/cnfuctc

Beware spoilers!

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John Kessel and S.G. Browne to read at October KGB Fantastic Fiction

Thu, 20 Sep 2012 15:25:57 GMT

FANTASTIC FICTION at KGB reading series, hosts

Ellen Datlow and Matthew Kressel

present:

John Kessel, who in the last nine months has co-edited three anthologies with James Patrick Kelly, Kafkaesque, the Nebula Awards Showcase 2012, and Digital Rapture: The Singularity Anthology. Kessel is currently at work on a novel set in the Society of Cousins, the setting for his Tiptree Award-winning novella "Stories for Men."

&

S.G. Browne is the author of the novels Breathers, Fated, and Lucky Bastard, as well as the eBook short story collection Shooting Monkeys in a Barrel. His novella I Saw Zombies Eating Santa Claus: A Breathers Christmas Carol will be released this November. He is currently at work on his fourth novel, Big Egos.

Wednesday October 17th, 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.

Books will be available for purchase from Word Bookstore

Sponsored in part by Cemetery Dance Publications

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The Baltimore Book Festival September 28-30

Wed, 19 Sep 2012 17:38:29 GMT

I'll be attending, signing books, and being on panels at the free Baltimore Book Festival Friday September 28-Saturday September 29th. (the festival is through Sunday but I leave Saturday night).

They expect 50,000 people. I hope to see some friendly faces while I'm down there.

The Childrens Bookstore will be selling copies of After edited by me and Terri Windling. This should be its first public appearance (the book will be officially out October 9th)

Friday, September 28
6pm Once Upon a Slightly Different Time
Five authors and editor Ellen Datlow offer their thoughts on the recreation and retelling of fairy tales for a modern audience.
Panelists include Shannon Hale, Goose Girl, Ellen Datlow, Troll's-Eye View: A Book of Villainous Tales, Michael Buckley, The Sisters Grimm Book 9: The Council of Mirrors, Adam Gidwitz, In a Glass Grimmly, Jessica Day George, Princess of the Midnight Ball, and Sarah Beth Durst, Vessel.
Childrens Bookstores Stage

Saturday, September 29

The rest of my events take place under the aegis of SFWA. They will be selling a selection of OP titles that I'm shipping today and include hardcover copies of YBFH #6, 10, 11, 16, 17, and 20 plus Inferno, Off Limits, Blood is Not Enough Naked City (op in hardcover), Black Swan, White Raven, and a couple of trade paperbacks.

12-noon: autographing SFWA to sell books

1-1:50 Steampunk and gaslight fantasy: It’s Hot and on Top. Come talk with our steampunk/gaslight authors and editors about this immensely popular new genre

4-4:50 YA Dreams: The young adult genre is booming in both books and movies

6-8 RECEPTION/AUTOGRAPHING: COME MEET OUR AUTHORS:

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Two videos with or about me

Wed, 19 Sep 2012 17:16:31 GMT

From Open Road Media to publicize my three ebooks:

Here's my profile for those who haven't yet seen it
http://www.openroadmedia.com/search/?q=datlow

and this one has just been released:

This one is about science fiction vs fantasy and features me and several writers in the field of sf/f
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=bCO4aNK9JdI

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Publication Day for Alien Sex, et al

Wed, 12 Sep 2012 16:16:08 GMT

I missed posting about it yesterday, as I'm down in Florida with my mom, who shockingly wants to go out instead of waiting for me to post, answer emails, etc.

So...Open Road Media has released Alien Sex, Off Limits, and Sirens as ebooks as of yesterday. They're available for the nook and kindle and probably other formats. I spot checked and you can buy them on amazon.uk. I reread all three books prepping for the two day long interview/shoot with me right before Worldcon and most of the stories (even the old old reprints) don't feel dated. And some are even more relevant today than they were when they were first published.

Alien Sex half originals/half reprints sold well when it came out and was translated around the world. My favorite edition is the Italian, illustrated by Italian cartoonist Manero-the illos are totally comic style and deal with each story literally. They NSFW (you can find some of them online).

Off Limits was mostly originals with only a few reprints. The stories are powerful and most are not "feel good" but they give a wide variety of takes on relationships between/among the genders. I'm very proud of the anthology and would love to see it get more play.

Sirens was edited by Terri and myself and is the only one that really is erotic. There are some fine stories by excellent writers.

http://www.openroadmedia.com/search/?q=datlow

and here's a video about me: beware, if you're afraid of dolls. This will not comfort you
http://tinyurl.com/9y7zdav

I hope you'll pass on the news that these books are available again.

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