Ellen Datlow's Blog, page 62

My programming for Odysseycon

As you can see, it's much lighter so I hope to hang around the bar more, perhaps.

Sunday:
Anthologies - The Art of Compilation. 10am-11am. Connaught. What
makes a good anthology? How do you set about collecting and editing
stories to build a harmonious collection? Clare Boothby (mod), Gary
Couzens, Ellen Datlow, Colin Harvey and Ian Whates.

Monday:
Novels, a Product of Their Time. 12pm-1pm. Room 41. Each novel is a
story for its time. Many excellent SF stories are of no interest at all to the
next ge...

My programming schedule at the World Horror Convention, Brighton

Friday
VAMPIRE CAT ANGELS: HOW TO SELL A NEW ANTHOLOGY Russell 11-12pm
P Crowther (mod.), E Datlow, N Kilpatrick, C Prepolec,I Whates

KAFFEEKLATSCHE (Sussex Room, Radisson Blu) 04:00-05:00pm

MASS AUTOGRAPHING Lounge-7:00-9:00pm,


Saturday
FEMME FATALES-HOW CAN WE GET MORE WOMEN IN HORROR?Russell-noon -1pm
A Bird, E Datlow, T Lee M McHugh (mod.), S McLeod, S Pinbourgh

Stoker Awards Banquet at The Pier 7-9pm

Sunday
I CAN BARELY REMEMBER THIS WEEKEND:THE YEAR IN REVIEW Lounge -3-4pm
A Billson, E Datlow,D...

Photos from the March 17th KGB Fantastic Fiction reading

The audience with huge and enthusiastic and the readers wonderful. Here are the photos from the Michael Shea and N.K. Jemisin Fantastic Fiction reading

Photos from the April 17th KGB Fantastic Fiction reading

The audience with huge and enthusiastic and the readers wonderful. Here are the photos from the Michael Shea and N.K. Jemisin Fantastic Fiction reading

Booklist on Darkness:Two Decades of Modern Horror

(uncorrected review, forthcoming) Booklist Issue: April 1, 2010

Darkness: Two Decades of Modern Horror.

Datlow, Ellen (Editor)
Apr 2010. 480 p. Tachyon, paperback, $15.95. (9781892391957).
With several acclaimed horror anthologies to her credit already, including the first volume of the recently inaugurated Best Horror of the Year series, Datlow eschews "best of" labels for her new gathering, instead selecting favorites from her last 20 years of editing. With her only criterion being lasting ...

Tails of Wonder review forthcoming in Realms of Fantasy

Pleased at this review:
Realms of Fantasy June 2010-anyone who wants to post this, may.

Tails of Wonder and Imagination: Cat Stories, edited by Ellen Datlow, Night Shade Books, trade paperback, $15.95, ISBN: 978-1-59780-170-6
From Ernest Hemingway's famous six-toed polydactyl pussycats to speculative fiction's well-known feline fanciers like Michael Moorcock, John Scalzi, and Neil Gaiman, writers and cats have always had a special relationship. Editor Ellen Datlow, no small fan of cats herself, ...

Still In Florida and ...

As you all know I've been in Florida visiting my parents for what was supposed to be a week.

I was supposed to fly home yesterday, but all flights into NY
were canceled because of the weather and I couldn't get another flight out
till tomorrow evening (and I think I got the last seat on that) so I've
been down here an extra two days--saw my dad today again in the nursing
home, which I hadn't planned on so it was nice.

The "and..." is that my cat/house sitter called to tell me that Dinah, my 17
year ...

2 questions round - 2009 Bram Stoker Awards nominees

I and the other Stoker nominees were asked two questions about what the nomination means to us and if we think it can help our careers. Here's how we responded on Dark Wolf's Fantasy Reviews

Flooooorida and the parental units

I'm down here again, not for fun but to check in with my parents. Also, my mom is having an endoscopy/biopsy Monday and asked my sister and me to come down because she's nervous. I just hope she gets the results before we both leave. Lori has been here since Wed and leaves Wed. I leave next Saturday.

The flight was surprise surprise! in to West Palm an hour early, so my sister and mom hadn't left the house yet. But the wait was pretty short. We stopped in at a horrible sports bar for dinner o...

The Happy Cat Rating system for Tails of Wonder & Imagination

It has come to our attention that some reviewers have asserted that, in Ellen Datlow's anthology Tails of Wonder and Imagination, "you'll find cats being burned alive, skinned, tortured by evil scientists, strangled by psychos, and murdered in at least a dozen horrific ways." We at Night Shade wanted to assure our readers that relatively very few cats were harmed in the making of this anthology.

In order to reassure cat lovers who are fearful of accidentally coming across a tale of a cat...