Ellen Datlow's Blog, page 20

Usually google alerts lets me know when a review appears on the web, but it seems to have missed this lovely rave from Bookgasm

5 Questions: Editor Ellen Datlow responds

Both Naked City and Supernatural Noir are officially published today.
Naked City is available as a hardcover, trade paperback, and ebook. Supernatural Noir is available as a trade paperback.

Along with Erin's interview with me here , the
Introduction to Supernatural Noir is also up.

I've been going through most of my anthology contracts in preparation for selling e-rights to those not yet available in electronic format. (I'll be contacting contributors for those books OP.

But while checking things out, I've discovered that some of my books(with or without Terri) are already available as e-books and I had no idea. For those interested:

Troll's Eye View
kindle and nook

The Coyote Road
kindle and nook


The Beastly Bride
kindle and nook


Poe for the Kindle and
at Waterstones

not Nook--the nook is currently being negotiated.

The Del Rey Book of Science Fiction and Fantasy for the kindle

Photos from the Locus Award Weekend.

on the blog, Adventures of Cecelia Bedelia


conclusion:
Recommended for: adults (no one else need apply), fans of dark fantasy and horror, short story aficionados, and anyone who has watched a Humphrey Bogart marathon on the classic movie channel but wished that something TRULY terrible would just happen, already.

It's a busy one:

Thursday, July 14th
7pm the reading/signing of Naked City at Porter Square Books in Cambridge with me introducing Matthew Kressel, Jeffrey Ford, Caitlín R. Kiernan, Kit Reed, John Crowley, and Ellen Kushner.

Friday 12-1pm Kaffeeklatsch in Vinyard

Friday 1-2 autographing Salon E

Friday 5pm Salon G
De Gustibus Est Disputandum When Editing Anthologies
Adams, Datlow, Dozois, Kessel, Waldrop


While any anthology has its no-brainer must-include great stories, the anthologist usually needs to flesh it out with selections from a broader pool of merely good stories. When should an editor choose their personal favorites from that pool, giving the anthology more of a coherent flavor but possibly limiting its audience, and when should they make a conscious effort to choose stories that will appeal to a wide variety of readers, so that there is "something for everyone"? How do the rules change when one is editing a themed anthology or a Year's Best, or pitching to a larger or smaller publisher?

Friday 6-7 NH/MA
Group reading from Teeth
Kaaron Warren, Delia Sherman, Steve Berman, Suzy McKee Charnas


Saturday 12-1pm RI
The Year in Short Fiction
We will discuss the short fiction published since last Readercon.
Cramer, Datlow, Dozois

Saturday 1-2pm Salon F
Urban (Fantasy) Renewal
Bobet, Clute, Datlow, Gidney, Kelner

The term "urban fantasy" has encompassed the work of Charles Williams, a contemporary of Tolkien who sometimes situated his fantasy in London or suburban settings as opposed to a pastoral secondary world; the novels and short stories of Charles de Lint, Emma Bull, or Robin Hobb (as Megan Lindholm); the phantasmagoric cities of China Miéville or Jeff VanderMeer; and most recently, the magical noir of Jim Butcher and Charlaine Harris. Is it possible to reclaim "urban fantasy" as useful critical term? Rather than wring our hands at how it no longer means what it did, can we use it to examine what these very different writers have in common, and to what degree they reflect different eras' anxieties around and interests in the urban?

Saturday 9-10 pm NH / MA
Group reading from Supernatural Noir
Caitlin R. Kiernan, Paul G. Tremblay, John Langan

Sunday 11-noon The Shirley Jackson Awards

I'll be bringing a few of my OP anthologies to sell at my autographing so if you have any specific requests I can see if I have them around.

Erin Underwood just conducted an interview with me and it's up at her blog Underwords

I love this brief review of Supernatural Noir if only for the above line
Reading Through the Night.
You can pre-order it here
or here