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Here's the proof of another great reading at KGB Bar.
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FANTASTIC FICTION at KGB reading series, hosts

Ellen Datlow and Matthew Kressel

present:

Jack O’Connell’s first novel, Box Nine, won the Mysterious Press Discovery Award. His second novel, Wireless, was chosen by the Los Angeles Times as one of the top ten crime novels of 1993. O’Connell is also the author of The Skin Palace and Word Made Flesh. His latest novel, The Resurrectionist, was chosen by Amazon.com as one of the top-10 SF novels of 2008. The winner of Le prix Mystère de la critique and Le Grand Prix de l’Imaginaire in France, the novel was also nominated for the Shirley Jackson Award..

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E.C. Myers, whose first novel, Fair Coin, was called "pure awesome crack" by io9, is also a recent contributor to the Directory of World Cinema: Japan 2, edited by John Berra and Spec-tacular: Fantasy Favorites from Raven Electrick Ink. He also blogs weekly re-watches of Star Trek: The Next Generation episodes with Torie Atkinson at theviewscreen.com. His next novel, Quantum Coin, will be published by Pyr in fall 2012.


Wednesday June 20th, 7pm at
KGB Bar, 85 East 4th Street (just off 2nd Ave, upstairs.)
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Readings are free
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Books will be available for purchase from the readers

Sponsored in part by Cemetery Dance Publications

Anna Kashina just interviewed me a few days ago about editing. What an anthology editor does--the process of what's involved in putting together a good anthology. The timing as it happens, is perfect, because I just read an unbelievably ignorant post by a self-titled "editor" who informs us: "The work is not hard. In fact, it takes very little time although one must be an able communicator. ... I can tell you that the time it takes to work on an anthology is negligible when compared to the time it takes for writers to contribute their stories. It mostly consists of waiting for the short stories to be delivered by their due date—then reading them at night when the work for the day is done and editing where appropriate". Read more here: How editors Juggle Anthologies.

So here's what editors actually do when editing anthologies Interview with Ellen Datlow, award-winning editor of science fiction, fantasy, and horror

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Tuesday May 8 6-7:30 pm
Book Discussion: Poe, 19 New Tales
Location: Mount Vernon Public Library

Reading, book discussion,and book signing with Ellen Datlow, John Langan, and
Laird Barron about the stories in Poe: 19 New Tales


28 South First Avenue, Mount Vernon, NY (near the Mount Vernon East Metro North
Station:Bet: East 1st.Street and 2nd. Street.)

(914) 668-1840 x219 or x220

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FANTASTIC FICTION at KGB reading series, hosts

Ellen Datlow and Matthew Kressel

present:

Karen Heuler’s stories have been published in over 60 literary and speculative magazines, anthologies and “Year’s Best” collections, including the forthcoming The Year’s Best SF #17. Her most recent novel is The Made-up Man, published by Livingston Press
ChiZine Publications will publish her short story collection, The Inner City, early next year.


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Victor LaValle's novel, Big Machine, won the Shirley Jackson Award, the American Book Award, and a Guggenheim Fellowship. His next novel, The Devil in Silver, will be published in August 2012 by Speigel & Grau.



Wednesday May 16th, 7pm at
KGB Bar, 85 East 4th Street (just off 2nd Ave, upstairs.)
www.kgbfantasticfiction.org
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Readings are free
Forward to friends at your own discretion.

Books will be available for purchase from the readers

Sponsored in part by Cemetery Dance Publications

Here is the final table of contents for Hauntings, which is coming out in March from Tachyon.

And here’s the cover

http://www.tachyonpublications.com/book/Hauntings.html?Session_ID=new



Table of Contents

Eenie, Meenie, Ipsateenie Pat Cadigan
Hunger: A Confession Dale Bailey
Cargo E. Michael Lewis
Delta Sly Honey Lucius Shepard
Nothing Will Hurt You David Morrell
The Ammonite Violin (Murder Ballad #4) Caitlín R. Kiernan
Haunted Joyce Carol Oates
The Have-Nots Elizabeth Hand
Closing Time Neil Gaiman
Anna F. Paul Wilson
Mr. Fiddlehead Jonathan Carroll
The Fooly Terry Dowling
The Toll Paul Walther
The Pennine Tower Restaurant Simon Kurt Unsworth
Distress Call Connie Willis
The Horn Stephen Gallagher
Everybody Goes Michael Marshall Smith
Transfigured Night Richard Bowes
Hula Ville James P. Blaylock
The Bedroom Light Jeffrey Ford
Spectral Evidence Gemma Files
Two Houses Kelly Link
Where Angels Come In Adam L. G. Nevill
Hunger: An Introduction by Peter Straub

So this was my big secret (the anthology part). I did not know how many stories from my various anthos were nominated--and am especially pleased that stories from a ya anthology made the cut, along with the anthology itself.
I'm proud to have my work on the same ballot as the other anthologies nominated.

Congratulations to all the nominees, thank you to the judges, and good luck to everyone. We are all winners for the next several months.
The Shirley Jackson Award nominees

NOVEL

The Devil All the Time, Donald Ray Pollock (Doubleday)
The Dracula Papers, Reggie Oliver (Chômu Press)
The Great Lover, Michael Cisco (Chômu Press)
Knock Knock, S. P. Miskowski (Omnium Gatherum Media)
The Last Werewolf, Glen Duncan (Canongate Books, Ltd.)
Witches on the Road Tonight, Sheri Holman (Grove Press)

NOVELLA

“And the Dead Shall Outnumber the Living,” Deborah Biancotti (Ishtar, Gilgamesh Press)
“A Child’s Problem,” Reggie Oliver (A Book of Horrors, Jo Fletcher Books)
“Displacement,” Michael Marano (Stories from the Plague Years, Cemetery Dance Publications)
The Men Upstairs, Tim Waggoner (Delirium Books)
“Near Zennor,” Elizabeth Hand (A Book of Horrors, Jo Fletcher Books)
“Rose Street Attractors,” Lucius Shepard (Ghosts by Gaslight, Harper Voyager)

NOVELETTE

“The Ballad of Ballard and Sandrine,” Peter Straub (Conjunctions 56)
“Ditch Witch,” Lucius Shepard (Supernatural Noir, Dark Horse)
“The Last Triangle,” Jeffrey Ford (Supernatural Noir, Dark Horse)
“Omphalos,” Livia Llewellyn (Engines of Desire: Tales of Love & Other Horrors, Lethe Press)
“The Summer People,” Kelly Link (Tin House 49/Steampunk! An Anthology of Fantastically Rich and Strange Stories, Candlewick Press)

SHORT FICTION

“Absolute Zero,” Nadia Bulkin (Creatures: Thirty Years of Monsters, Prime Books)
“The Corpse Painter’s Masterpiece,” M. Rickert (The Magazine of Fantasy and Science Fiction, Sept/Oct, 2011)
“Hair,” Joan Aiken (The Monkey’s Wedding and Other Stories, Small Beer Press/ The Magazine of Fantasy and Science Fiction, July/Aug, 2011)
“Max,” Jason Ockert (The Iowa Review 41/1)
“Sunbleached,” Nathan Ballingrud (Teeth, HarperCollins)
“Things to Know About Being Dead,” Genevieve Valentine (Teeth, HarperCollins)

SINGLE-AUTHOR COLLECTION

After the Apocalypse: Stories, Maureen F. McHugh (Small Beer Press)
The Corn Maiden and Other Nightmares, Joyce Carol Oates (Mysterious Press)
Engines of Desire: Tales of Love & Other Horrors, Livia Llewellyn (Lethe Press)
The Janus Tree, Glen Hirshberg (Subterranean Press)
Red Gloves, Christopher Fowler (PS Publishing)
What Wolves Know, Kit Reed (PS Publishing)

EDITED ANTHOLOGY

Blood and Other Cravings, edited by Ellen Datlow (Tor)
A Book of Horrors, edited by Stephen Jones (Jo Fletcher Books)
Ghosts by Gaslight, edited by Jack Dann and Nick Gevers (Harper Voyager)
Supernatural Noir, edited by Ellen Datlow (Dark Horse)
Teeth, edited by Ellen Datlow and Terri Windling (HarperCollins)
The Thackery T. Lambshead Cabinet of Curiosities, edited by Ann and Jeff VanderMeer (Harper Voyager)

Shirley Jackson (1916-1965) wrote such classic novels as The Haunting of Hill House and We Have Always Lived in the Castle, as well as one of the most famous short stories in the English language, “The Lottery.” Her work continues to be a major influence on writers of every kind of fiction, from the most traditional genre offerings to the most innovative literary work.

The 2011 Shirley Jackson Awards will be presented on Sunday, July 15th at Readercon 23, Conference on Imaginative Literature, in Burlington, Massachusetts. Shirley Jackson is the Memorial Guest of Honor. Readercon 23 Guests of Honor, Peter Straub and Caitlin R. Kiernan, will act as hosts.

Ellen Datlow will introduce Gregory Frost, John Langan, and Laird Barron, and the group will discuss their stories in the anthology Poe: 19 New Tales:
Mount Vernon Public Library event


We hope that there will books available for sale.

I have just been informed by Alessandro Manizetti that I'm the winner of the first Il Posto Nero Excellence Award for Foreign Editor. Congratulations to all my fellow winners.

Prize Excellence, established by the Black Spot


Here are all the winners (there are more details on the website, which is in Italian, but can be translated --although a bit imperfectly:

Excellence 2012: Italian Fiction - Author: Danilo Arona
Excellence 2012: Foreign Fiction - Author: Gene O'Neill
Excellence 2012: Italian Fiction - Book: The Midnight of the Century by Samuel Marolla
Excellence 2012: Fiction Foreign - translated the Book: The Circus of Vampires by Richard Laymon
Excellence 2012: Foreign Fiction - Book: The German by Lee Thomas
Excellence 2012: Artwork-Italy Author: Daniele Serra
Excellence 2012: Artwork estero- Autore: Menton J. Matthews III
Excellence 2012: Graphic Novel Italy: Venice's disease (Cut Up Comics)
Excellence 2012: Graphic Novel abroad: Necronomicon (Avatar Press)
Excellence 2012: Italy Publisher: Editions XII
Excellence 2012: Foreign Publisher: Dark Region Press
Excellence 2012: Italian Editor: Fabrizio Cocco
Excellence 2012: Foreign Editor: Ellen Datlow
Excellence 2012: Film: The Woman di Lucky McKee
Excellence 2012: TV Series: The Walking Dead
Excellence 2012: Italian Review: H Almanac of Horror Magazine (Delos Books)
Excellence 2012: Foreign Magazine: Cemetery Dance Magazine (Cemetery Dance)
Excellence 2012: Italian Web Site: Horror.it
Excellence 2012: Sito Web estero: Rue Morgue
Excellence 2012: italiano Blog: Weirdletter
Excellence 2012: estero Blog: Dread Central
Excellence 2012: Columnist Italian: Louis Bonaro
Excellence 2012: Progetto online italiano: Rusty Dogs of Emiliano Longobardi
Excellence 2012: Horror Store: Dark Delicacies Del Howison
Excellence 2012: Special Award Ambassador of horror: Rocky Wood