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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.

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Sorry that I've been away from dreamwidth and live journal for so long but The Best Horror of the Year volume four just completely ate up my time. But I handed it in to Night Shade this past Sunday 5:30 a.m and a great weight has been lifted off my mind. Of course, I'll need to start reading for #5 shortly but I can relax a bit. I've got an original anthology that Terri and I are finishing over the next few weeks but I feel less pressure.
I'll be traveling to London end of the month for two weeks for my annual visit and will stay in Camden Town with the Clutes hang around with Pat Cadigan. I will also meet with various other friends and colleagues.

An e-book deal is brewing regarding an anthology long out of print that was never released in the USA. I'm excited and will give details as soon as I know when it will be out.
I'm hoping to sell more anthologies over the next few months (original and reprint) and keeping fingers crossed that this will indeed happen.
But in the meantime, here are the photos:

Miami Beach & with my family in Fort Lauderdale for lunch and Waxahachie wetlands

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

Best Horror of the Year



The Little Green God of Agony by Stephen King A Book of Horrors 9700

Stay by Leah Bobet Chilling Tales 8300

The Moraine by Simon Bestwick Terror Tales of the Lake District 6700

Blackwood's Baby by Laird Barron Ghosts by Gaslight 13,000

Looker by David Nickle Chilling Tales 6000

The Show by Priya Sharma Box of Delights 4000

Mulberry Boys by Margo Lanagan Blood and Other Cravings 7500

Roots and All by Brian Hodge A Book of Horrors 11,000

Final Girl Theory by A. C. Wise Chizine #48 4800

Omphalos by Livia Llewellyn Engines of Desire 10,800

Dermot by Simon Bestwick Black Static 24 3500

Black Feathers by Alison J. Littlewood Black Static 22 5200

Final Verse by Chet Williamson F&SF May/June` 7300

In the Absence of Murdock by Terry Lamsley House of Fear 5900

You Become the Neighborhood by Glen Hirshberg The Janus Tree 8300

In Paris, In the Mouth of Kronos by John Langan Supernatural Noir 12,000

Little Pig by Anna Taborska The Eighth Black Book of Horror 2300

The Ballad of Ballard and Sandrine by Peter Straub Conjunctions 56 16,000

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

For those interested, I'm still selling books (I really need to get some of the piles currently in my living room. You can see what's available here:
Buy a book-or three

Gemma Files and Ekaterina Sedia gave great readings: Photos here

A week ago Sunday a group of us trekked to The Museum of Natural History and went to four exhibits. My favorites were the frogs and the butterflies. 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.

To purchase a book or books, please comment on this entry with your name and the books you would like to reserve, and the total you expect to pay. If you're not a member of LJ you can still post, making sure you provide your name and contact info if you're posting "anonymously" (ie without an account).

Because I have limited quantities of each title, this is strictly first come, first served. I may have other titles that I can't reach easily so if there's something you want but don't see listed, ask. I may have some (not YBFH #1).

I will comment to let you know your order has been received and that the book is available, and to tell you what you owe. The address for money is datlow at datlow dot com. Please wait for my comment before sending money.

When paying, please include your real name, your lj name, a list of what you have purchased, and your shipping address in the comments section of the paypal form. When you pay, please make the payment "personal" so that neither of us get charged. Also, let me know if you want me to personally inscribe or just sign your books.

Most if not all the books are out of print either completely or in the editions I'm offering. I am not intentionally selling any books/editions that are currently available in bookstores selling new books on or off-line.

Key:

TPB = trade paperback (large format paperback)
HC = hardcover
MM=mass market


Adult Fairy Tale series (with Terri Windling)
Snow White, Blood Red (Avonova/Morrow) HC $21 (more than one copy available)

Ruby Slippers, Golden Tears (Avonova/Morrow)(Canty is not on this edition) HC $21 (more than one copy)
Ruby Slippers, Golden Tears (Avonova)-Canty (art) mm $9 (more than one copy)

Black Swan, White Raven (Avon) HC first edition(I thought this was only in a trade paperback edition when I sold the trade paperbacks this past summer but I was wrong. It was originally in hc: $23 several copies

Black Swan, White Raven (Avon) trade pb OOP(Canty cover)$16 (more than one copy)

Black Swan, White Raven (Prime) trade pb different cover --(not Canty) $14

Middle Grade fairy tale series (with Windling)
A Wolf at the Door (S&S) hc $15 (more than one copy)

vampirism anthologies:
Blood is Not Enough (Ace) mm $9
A Whisper of Blood (William Morrow) HC $22

Alien Sex (St Martin's Press) HC: $20

Off Limits (follow up to Alien Sex) (St Martin's Press) HC $21

Sirens (with Terri Windling) (HarperPrism) trade pb $14 (more than one copy)


Year's Best Fantasy and Horror series

YBFH #3 (with Windling) HC $25


YBFH #6 (with Windling) HC $25
YBFH #6(with Windling) trade pb $16

YBFH#8 (with Windling) HC $25

YBFH #9 (with Windling) HC $25

YBFH #10 (with Windling) HC $25
YBFH #10 (with Windling) TPB $16

YBFH #11 (with Windling) HC $28
YBFH #11 (with Windling) TPB $16


YBFH #13 (with Windling) HC $30

YBFH #15(with Windling)HC $30

YBFH #16(with Windling)HC (slight damage to jacket on spine)$20 (I may have more copies-if necessary will look)

YBFH #17 (with Kelly Link & Gavin J. Grant) HC $30 (several copies)

YBFH #18 (with Kelly Link & Gavin J. Grant)trade pb $20



The Mythic series Young adult (with Terri Windling)
The Green Man: Tales From the Mythic Forest HC $21 (more than one)
The Fairy Reel:Tales from the Twilight Realm HC $21 (more than one)


Horror:
Twists of the Tale -first ed. MM pb with Harry O. Morris cover $9
Inferno (Tor) HC $25 (several)

OMNI Books
The First OMNI Book of SF (Zebra) mm $9
The Fifth OMNI Book of SF (Zebra) mm $9

You can read it here. It was fast and furious!
http://tinyurl.com/d6dx3fu