Ellen Datlow's Blog, page 5

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FANTASTIC FICTION at KGB reading series, hosts

Ellen Datlow and Matthew Kressel

present:

Paul Tremblay is the author of Swallowing a Donkey's Eye, a dystopian dark fantasy with people in chicken and duck suits from Chizine Publications. He is also the author of the narcoleptic PI novels The Little Sleep and No Sleep Till Wonderland. His short fiction and essays have also appeared in the Los Angeles Times, Supernatural Noir, and Best American Fantasy 3.
and


Alma Katsu is the author of The Taker and The Reckoning, the first two novels in a supernatural trilogy of love, obsession and redemption, The Taker was selected as a
Top Ten Debut Novel of 2011 by Booklist .
In a previous life, Ms. Katsu was an intelligence
analyst and co-author of an American
national standard for encryption.

Wednesday September 19th, 7pm at
KGB Bar, 85 East 4th Street (just off 2nd Ave, upstairs.)
www.kgbfantasticfiction.org
Subscribe to our mailing list:
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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

I planned to have this back in June but life intervened. I hope I got the below titles correct (as far as having them in the back room. I've checked, but with the YBFH it gets a bit confusing). If you don't see what you want, ask--I may have a stray book or two that I haven't listed.

The sale will run from today through August 22nd.

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 $6.00 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.

I will accept checks but you will have to wait until the check clears before I send books. If someone wants to mail me a check I’ll give you my mailing address when the time comes.

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.


Naked City (St Martin's Press) HC: $25 –the hardcover, which was printed mostly for libraries, is now out of print but I have some copies for sale: $25

Alien Sex (St Martin's Press) HC: $25 one copy

Off Limits (follow up to Alien Sex) (St Martin's Press) HC: $29 two copies


Adult Fairy Tale series (with Terri Windling)
Snow White, Blood Red (Avonova/Morrow) HC $21 one copy
Black Swan, White Raven (Avonova/Morrow) HC (book club-only hard cover) $18
Black Swan, White Raven (Prime edition) Trade Paperback $14 one copy




Year's Best Fantasy and Horror series

YBFH #5(with Windling) HC $30
YBFH #6 (with Windling) HC $30
YBFH #11 (with Windling) HC $30 three copies
YBFH #12 (with Windling) HC $30
YBFH #13 (with Windling) HC $30
YBFH #17 (with Kelly Link & Gavin J. Grant) HC $30
YBFH #18 (with Kelly Link & Gavin J. Grant) HC $30
YBFH #20 (with Kelly Link & Gavin J. Grant) HC $30 two copies
YBFH #21 (with Kelly Link & Gavin J. Grant) HC $30


The Mythic series Young adult (with Terri Windling)

The Green Man: Tales From the Mythic Forest HC $21

The Faery Reel:Tales from the Twilight Realm HC $21 three copies


Horror
Inferno (Tor) HC $25 one copy
A Whisper of Blood (William Morrow) HC: $28 one copy
The Dark (Tor) HC $25 two copies

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FANTASTIC FICTION at KGB reading series, hosts



Ellen Datlow and Matthew Kressel



present:



Jeffrey Ford, whose latest book is a collection of stories, Crackpot Palace, just out from Morrow/Harper Collins. He has new stories appearing in the July/Aug. issue of F&SF and After, an anthology of post-apocalyptic and dystopian stories for young adult readers, edited by Ellen Datlow and Terri Windling





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Tenea D. Johnson, who is the author of two novels R/evolution and Smoketown. In all 2012 Hr short story “Only Then Can I Sleep” will appear in Love and Darker Passions this fall and she is currently working on a spoken word album as well as the final book in the R/evolution duology. Next year, she’ll be co-editing the 2013 edition of the Heiresses of Russ anthology with Steve Berman.







Wednesday August 15th, 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

tinyurl.com/cg5ybf5

Guests were Peter Straub and Caitlín R. Kiernan. Shirley Jackson was the special guest and her daughter Sarah Hyman DeWitt (Sadie) represented her wonderfully. It was a great convention, as always.

Just got back from Florida, helping out my mom, who is ailing-it's been tough and I'm very glad to be home. I was down there three times in the past two months, for 7-8 days each time. I have more traveling this summer (Readercon, Launchpad, Chicon) and possibly another trip to Florida in August.

So because all this is kind of emotionally draining (and I hate hate hate having to cook and/or prepare food regularly -even if most of it's not from scratch-plus doing dishes for two people regularly --now I know why my mom uses the dishwasher--I stupidly insisted on doing the dishes in the sink every time. Next time, screw it. Dishwasher it is).....I'm glad to have two great pre-pub blog reviews of AFTER plus the official news that the book has been taken for the Junior Literary Guild, for January 2013. For those who don’t know what that means (I didn't), you can read about it here:

http://www.juniorlibraryguild.com/how-jlg-works/how-jlg-works

but basically choices by the Guild are recommended to member libraries for their collections. (more sales, more readers).

Oops. I forgot the interview Charles Tan did with me for the Jackson Award website: http://tinyurl.com/7dd6lu4

(and yes, I'm too tired to get rid of the urls. Sorry.)



Here are the two reviews:
on the Bundles of Books blog: http://tinyurl.com/88ts25e


and from Alamosa Books: http://tinyurl.com/cxzvndt

And there's a rave review of The Best Horror of the Year volume 4 by Stefan Dziemianowicz in the July Locus.

He talks about each story (which I'm not going to quote) but will quote his summing up:
"As in all previous year’s-best volumes that she has compiled, Datlow provides an overview of the year in horror that reveals tastes as eclectic as the stories she has chosen. Increasingly, the benefit of her year’s end summaries cannot be overestimated. Over the last two decades horror has become less circumscribed as a genre and more diffuse as a sensibility that percolates through other types of fiction and seeps into many areas obscured to the average reader. Datlow finds horror worth noting in many unlikely places, which makes her summation as indispensable the stories she selects."

This makes me very happy.

Friday July 13
11:00 AM ME The Year in Short Fiction. Ellen Datlow (leader), Paula Guran. We will discuss the speculative short fiction (aka horror in this case and will mostly be mostly be discussing 2011) published since last Readercon.

5:00 PM E Autographs. Ellen Datlow, James Morrow.(if you want to buy specific OP titles from me-it would be great if you could let me know in advance so if I've got 'em, I can bring them.)

Saturday July 14
2:00 PM CL Kaffeeklatsch. Ellen Datlow, Kathleen Ann Goonan.

Sunday July 15
10:00 AM F Uncanny Taxonomies. Daniel Abraham (leader), Ellen Datlow, Caitlín R. Kiernan, John Langan, Jeff VanderMeer. When considering the literatures of the uncanny—horror, dark fantasy, supernatural fiction, the weird, etc.—it can be difficult for a more casual reader to distinguish between the marketing-based labels and real differences in concern and approach. Moving away from common genre labels, our focus will be on the specific areas of uncanniness various authors have investigated in their writings. We will attempt to establish key commonalities and differences within and between their writings and other notable past and recent works. Possible topics include knowledge versus the unknowable, and the scope of possible knowledge; certainty and uncertainty, and the value of each; truth as power versus truth as horror; the body and the mind; the possibility or impossibility of metaphor; and the primacy of our world and the drive to transcend it, or to inhabit it more completely.

11:00 AM G The Shirley Jackson Awards.

In between you might very well find me in the bar.

Here's a new interview with me at Intempol

and my response to What Scares Me
on the The Horrifically Horrifying Horror Blog.

http://tinyurl.com/82mksvf