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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.

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.

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 .

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

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.

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.

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

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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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.

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!