Kelly Link





Kelly Link

Author profile


born
The United States

gender
female

website

genre


About this author

Kelly Link is an American author of short stories born in 1969. Her stories might be described as slipstream or magic realism: sometimes a combination of science fiction, fantasy, horror, mystery, and realism.


Average rating: 3.84 · 20,832 ratings · 3,091 reviews · 79 distinct works
Magic for Beginners
by
4.01 of 5 stars 4.01 avg rating — 2,360 ratings — published 2005 — 12 editions
My rating:
didn't like it it was ok liked it really liked it it was amazing
add to my books
Stranger Things Happen
4.01 of 5 stars 4.01 avg rating — 1,673 ratings — published 2001 — 8 editions
My rating:
didn't like it it was ok liked it really liked it it was amazing
add to my books
Pretty Monsters: Stories
by
3.9 of 5 stars 3.90 avg rating — 1,676 ratings — published 2008 — 15 editions
My rating:
didn't like it it was ok liked it really liked it it was amazing
add to my books
Steampunk! An Anthology of ...
by
3.7 of 5 stars 3.70 avg rating — 627 ratings — published 2011 — 10 editions
My rating:
didn't like it it was ok liked it really liked it it was amazing
add to my books
The Best of Lady Churchill'...
by
4.08 of 5 stars 4.08 avg rating — 140 ratings — published 2007 — 3 editions
My rating:
didn't like it it was ok liked it really liked it it was amazing
add to my books
Trampoline: An Anthology
by
3.9 of 5 stars 3.90 avg rating — 63 ratings — published 2003
My rating:
didn't like it it was ok liked it really liked it it was amazing
add to my books
The Wrong Grave
3.65 of 5 stars 3.65 avg rating — 17 ratings — published 2009
My rating:
didn't like it it was ok liked it really liked it it was amazing
add to my books
Stone Animals
4.23 of 5 stars 4.23 avg rating — 13 ratings — published 2012
My rating:
didn't like it it was ok liked it really liked it it was amazing
add to my books
Pretty Monsters
3.62 of 5 stars 3.62 avg rating — 8 ratings
My rating:
didn't like it it was ok liked it really liked it it was amazing
add to my books
I Don’t Know the Author or ...
4.75 of 5 stars 4.75 avg rating — 4 ratings — published 2011
My rating:
didn't like it it was ok liked it really liked it it was amazing
add to my books
More books by Kelly Link…

Upcoming Events

No scheduled events. Add an event.

“I don't know about you, but I'm kind of fed up with realism. After all, there's enough reality already; why make more of it? Why not leave realism for the memoirs of drug addicts, the histories of salt, the biographies of porn stars? Why must we continue to read about the travails of divorced people or mildly depressed Canadians when we could be contemplating the shopping habits of zombies, or the difficulties that ensue when living and dead people marry each other? We should be demanding more stories about faery handbags and pyjamas inscribed with the diaries of strange women. We should not rest until someone writes about a television show that features the Free People's World-Tree Library, with its elaborate waterfalls and Forbidden Books and Pirate-Magicians. We should be pining for a house haunted by rabbits.”
Kelly Link

“You have to salvage what you can, even if you're the one who buried it in the first place.”
Kelly Link

“Remember, when you don’t know what to do, it never hurts to play Scrabble. It’s like reading the I Ching or tea leaves.”
Kelly Link

Polls

What would you like to read for our first Study Hall Book Group?

 
  13 votes 33.3%

 
  10 votes 25.6%

 
  7 votes 17.9%

 
  5 votes 12.8%

 
  4 votes 10.3%

39 total votes
6 comments
More...

Topics Mentioning This Author

topics posts views last activity  
The Next Best Boo...: New Authors 43 353 Oct 16, 2008 07:14am  
The Critical Beat...: Top Ten Books Read in 2008? 5 334 Feb 19, 2009 12:14am  
Novel Ladies: September 2009 161 72 Oct 24, 2009 03:58pm  
Challenge: 50 Books: Collections of Short Stories 15 211 Nov 25, 2009 11:35am  
100+ Books in 2012: Christina's 2009 100+ Books 110 592 Dec 31, 2009 09:46pm  
The Book Challenge: 'Variety Is The Spice Of Life' Challenge 64 624 Jan 14, 2010 06:58am  
SciFi and Fantasy...: What are you reading in February 2010? 68 200 Mar 02, 2010 08:12am  
Endicott Mythic F...: The Coyote Road: Trickster Tales (The Mythic Fiction Series, #3) - Discussion 11 28 Jun 19, 2010 11:21am  
Paranormal Addict...: Giveaway - Pretty Monsters: Stories (closed) 10 44 Jul 12, 2010 11:36am  
Between the Lines: What books are you reading? 1809 1963 Jul 23, 2010 01:14pm  


Is this you? Let us know. If not, help out and invite Kelly to Goodreads.