Ellen Datlow's Blog, page 95

Verb Noire is a worthy start-up whose mission is stated as: "We are looking for original works of genre fiction (science fiction/fantasy/mystery/romance) that feature a person of color and/or LGBT as the central character."

4 1/2 stars and: BOTTOM LINE: One of the best original anthologies ever edited by Ellen Datlow - a high compliment indeed, given her prowess as an anthologist. Poe would have been proud to know that he inspired such a fine collection of stories.
SF Signal

Kristine Kathryn Rusch doesn't think the sky is falling (brava!) despite some (check the comments) who do in Signals 18 , an article in the current IROSF.

Sherry Austin has a blog called Strangeness and decided to interview me about my doll collection. Which reminds me that I need to do some more photographing of them.


WEIRD STUFF: A Conversation with Ellen Datlow--Editor, Anthologist, and Weird Doll Collector

Lisa Tuttle briefly but positively mentions Poe in her Science Fiction & Fantasy Round-up March 7, 2009

And Colleen Mondor of Chasing Ray writes a preliminary (but extensive) appreciation:
Appreciating Mr. Poe

and yes I'm ecstatic...

This interview with me by Jan Edwards, ran in 2007, the 51st issue of Dark Horizons, one of the magazines put out by the British Fantasy Society.

Roots of an Editor.

I've been nominated as Best Editor for The Del Rey Book of Science Fiction and Fantasy (but oddly enough the antho itself was not nominated--I'm still happy about it) Roundtable award nominees

Great Poe review from
The Green Man Review


I've seen a couple of plays in the last week--first I went to see Mabou Mines' version of Ibsen's The Doll House. I had high hopes for this as I usually love Mabou Mines (even though they gave an awful rendition of Flow My Tears, The Policeman Said about 20 years ago) and I read that there were puppets --something they use very well in their productions. However, the production was a major disappointment. Once you got past the initial shock of all the

Some amazing photographs by Clark Little

Thanks to Janice Gelb

Games Workshop has apparently put the Solaris imprint, founded by Marc Gascoigne and currently headed by George Mann, up for sale. I hope its bought by someone who cares that they're publishing some fine books (The Solaris Book of Science Fiction series, Nick Gevers' steampunk anthology Extraordinary Engines, lots of non-game related novels --and yes, Poe).

Via Cheryl Morgan who got it from Jenny Rae Rappaport who originally got it from Mark Chadbourn