Ellen Datlow's Blog, page 46

Haunted Legends is published

Today (I'm pretty sure). Hooray!
The book was a pleasure to work on an it was a pleasure to work with Nick Mamatas. He had the brilliant idea and I feel lucky he approached me with it. He talks about the process on John Scalzi's blog: Whatever .

more interviews

My anthology with Nick Mamatas Haunted Legends is about to be published by Tor. Here are two more interviews conducted with me and/or Nick, mostly about the anthology:
From Fangoria and Hellnotes:
http://tinyurl.com/34k4249
http://tinyurl.com/34wfqwu

a new interview with me

http://tinyurl.com/39m953r

Arrival in Melbourne

After over a week of fantastic travel to Kangaroo Island (cold and windy and not so many animals, but the Remarkable rocks -photos tk eventually--made it worth it) and then several wineries in SA and last night eating a most magnificent dinner at a restaurant named Chris's in Apollo Bay--the intrepid adventurers arrived in Melbourne late afternoon.

I'm staying in Mt. Waverley with Jason Nahrung and Kirstyn McDermott overnight. I'll move into the convention hotel tomorrow and have lunch with f...

2 nominations for World Fantasy award

I found out after everyone else as I'm traveling in oz...but am very thrilled for me and my fellow nominees.
Ellen

2009 World Fantasy Awards Nominees

— posted Tuesday 24 August 2010 @ 6:00 am UTC

The World Fantasy Awards ballot for works in 2009 has been announced. The awards will be presented in Columbus OH, October 28-31, 2010. Nominees are:

Novel

* Blood of Ambrose, James Enge (Pyr)
* The Red Tree, Caitlín R. Kiernan (Roc)
* The City & The City, China Miéville (Macmillan UK/ Del Rey)
...

Gone--flying and driving and ferrying, et al

Tomorrow I leave for Australia till September 9th. I'll have a borrowed Aussie cell phone so will be able to contact people before I get to Melbourne. I'll be online periodically to stay in touch with my house sitter and family and check for important email. Don't know how much I'll be posting.
Both anthos handed in (yay).


My dad should be either back in the nursing home or about to be tomorrow. I'm a little worried because they've taken him off coumadin because of bleeding and so there's a ch...

Blood and Other Cravings

This is the final TOC (although possibly not the final order of stories) for my adult vampirism/vampire anthology being published by Tor in the fall of 2011. There are two reprints, the stories by Carol Emshwiller and Reggie Oliver. The rest are new.


Introduction by Ellen Datlow

All You Can Do is Breathe by Kaaron Warren
Needles by Elizabeth Bear
Baskerville's Midgets by Reggie Oliver
Blood Yester...

Aussiecon 4 schedule

Fri 1200 Rm P1: In conversation: Ellen Datlow and Jonathan Strahan;

Fri 1500 Rm 213: Haunted legends reading--Kaaron Warren and Stephen Dedman

Saturday 1200 Room 212
But is it horror?
What is horror fiction and who decides? The authors? The readers? The publishers and editors? The marketers and booksellers? Does the horror genre even truly exist?
Joshua Bilmes, Ellen Datlow, Scott Edelman, Richard Harland, Rocky Wood

Sat 1600 Rm 210: Tombstones and chapbooks;
Tombstones and chapbooks
Is the sm...

Scott Westerfeld and Susan Beth Pfeffer read at KGB September 15th

FANTASTIC FICTION at KGB reading series, hosts



Ellen Datlow and Matthew Kressel



present:



Scott Westerfeld is best known for the Uglies series. His latest book, the New York Times-bestselling Leviathan, won both the Locus Award and the Aurealis Award for best YA novel of 2009. The series continues in October 2010 with Behemoth.





&

Susan Beth Pfeffer, who with the publication of her novel, This World We Live In, has completed her Last Survivors Trilogy, which also includes the New York Times Be...

Photos from KGB August 18, 2010

Photos from the August 18, 2010 Fantastic Fiction KGB reading with Laura Anne Gilman and Mary Robinette Kowal.