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A spread on the Bram Stoker award nominations

Here's a spread with photos and bios of all the Stoker nominees

Tails of Wonder and Imagination Reviews

Tails of Wonder and Imagination has been reviewed in
Publishers Weekly: "This is that rarity of rarities: an anthology of cat stories worth reading."

Booklist: "Datlow brings horror, sf, and fantasy all into the volume on equal footing, making it likely that even genre readers who aren't cat people will find something very much worth their while in it."— Regina Schroeder

Library Journal: "This broad sampling of cat tales from authors including Tanith Lee, Joyce Carol Oates, Stephen King, an...

The New York social whirl

Last week was very busy, with several friends from out of town and much socializing. Tuesday afternoon Jeremy, Amelia, and Joe Monti came over for vodka shots until we went to meet several other NY publishing folk at Hill Country barbecue. I tried desperately not to over-order, having been there once when they first opened. But despite sharing meats and sides with Stefan D, I ended up taking home some bourbon mashed sweet potatoes (too thin), baked beans with port butts (not sweet enough fo...

Odysseycon (aka Eastercon) membership might be for sale

I'm attending the WHC/Stokers in Brighton and was thinking of attending the Eastercon at Heathrow the next weekend and bought a membership. But I'm currently reconsidering. If I don't attend, I'll have a membership to sell for $107.55. If you're interested, please contact me at datlow at yahoo dot com (or my real email address if you know it)

Weekend update

Caught up on DVD movies, some Angel, and movies in theaters.

Friday night Swimming Pool with Charlotte Rampling as a relatively successful yet insecure and tightly wound British mystery writer, whose long term publisher (and it is hinted, lover)lets her stay in his French vacation house in order to get inspiration for her next novel. After a few peaceful, idyllic days, the publisher's French, illegitimate daughter moves in, plays loud music, lays about the swimming pool, and brings home a str...

British Bunny Breaks Biggest Rabbit Record

He doesn't look that big until the girl who owns him picks him up...He's only 18 months old and the girl's grandmother believes he's still growing. See Ralph, the 40 pound British Bunny

Horror Writers Association announces 2009 Bram Stoker Award Nominees

Each year, the Horror Writers Association presents the Bram Stoker Awards for Superior Achievement in the field of horror writing, named in honor of Bram Stoker, author of the seminal horror work Dracula. Since 1987, the approximately 500 members of the HWA have recommended, nominated and voted on the greatest works of horror and dark fantasy of the previous calendar year, making the Stokers the most prestigious award in the field of horror literature.

Currently the awards are presented in ...

New Clouded Leopard Cubs at the National Zoo!

I'm speechless at the cuteness exhibited by the new clouded leopard cubs

Thanks to The_Bastion

Photos from KGB reading February 17, 2010

Photos from Peter Straub and Daryl Gregory reading at KGB

My wine and I made it home--this morning

My flights back from Radcon yesterday were all screwed up because the plane I was meant to take from Pasco, WA to Denver and then on home was delayed in San Francisco, supposedly because of fog. (various SF residents have said "what"? But hey, that's what we were told. So my flight was three hours late, I missed the connection in Denver to NY and there were NO OTHER FLIGHTS OUT FROM DENVER TO NY THAT NIGHT--so I was shipped off to Los Angeles (from Denver) and just about made my flight havin...