Ellen Datlow

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Stoker, WHC weekend, visits, shopping, eating, and the Nebulas

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So I had a wonderful mostly busy 10 days visiting the west coast.
I attended the HWA Stoker/World Horror Convention weekend in Portland, Oregon, then stayed overnight with a friend. While in Portland, I sampled too much chocolate (and I’m not even that interested in chocolate), ate a voodoo donut that only impressed me with the fact that the chocolate icing on top somehow dribbled all over an offwhite vintage blouse I was wearing.

 

Then on to San Francisco, where I stayed overnight with my lovely Tachyon publishers. We ate wonderful Japanese food that night.

Tuesday I was picked up by another friend who took me shop shop shopping all over Oakland, checking out most of the vintage clothing shops (where I bought a 40s dress –my decade–and a gorgeous short black kimono with spider webs all over it, in white. (photos hopefully will show up somewhere–I wore it to the Nebula awards. )

Lots of good food including Vik’s Chaat–Indian street food-for lunch, dinner with some local folk at Ippuku in Berkeley (highly recommended) that had fabulous grilled Japanese food with Summer Snow sake.

Finally my friend Ysabeau Wilce and I drove down to San Jose for the day Saturday the 18th where we both sat on panels, socialized, and then attended the Nebula Awards…

Photos of everything (out of order, alas) here: http://tinyurl.com/pyf5oza

Fearful Symmetries cover art and table of contents

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Fearful Symmetries should be out by the end of this month. As soon as books arrive, our backers will be mailed theirs via email (e-books) or snail mail for the trade paperback.

Table of Contents:

Introduction” by Ellen Datlow
“A Wish From a Bone” by Gemma Files
“The Atlas of Hell” by Nathan Ballingrud
“The Witch Moth” by Bruce McAllister
“Kaiju” by Gary McMahon
“Will The Real Psycho In This Story Please Stand Up?” by Pat Cadigan
“In the Year of Omens” by Helen Marshall
“The Four Darks” by Terry Dowling
“The Spindly Man” by Stephen Graham Jones
“The Window” by Brian Evenson
“Mount Chary Galore” by Jeffrey Ford
“Ballad of an Echo Whisperer” by Caitlín R. Kiernan
“Suffer Little Children” by Robert Shearman
 “Power” by Michael Marshall Smith
“Bridge of Sighs” by Kaaron Warren
“the worms crawl in,” by Laird Barron
“The Attic” by Catherine MacLeod
 “Wendigo Nights” by Siobhan Carroll
“Episode Three: On the Great Plains, In the Snow” by John Langan
“Catching Flies” by Carole Johnstone
“Shay Corsham Worsted” by Garth Nix
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Table of Contents of The Best Horror of the Year volume Six

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I’m re-posting this on my blog as I didn’t have a blog when I originally posted to FB.
The book will be out from Night Shade in early June.
“Apports” by Stephen Bacon (Black Static, #36)
“Mr. Splitfoot” by Dale Bailey (Queen Victoria’s Book of Spells, eds. Ellen Datlow & Terri Windling, Tor Books)
“The Good Husband” by Nathan Ballingrud (North American Lake Monsters, Small Beer Press)
“The Tiger” by Nina Allan (Terror Tales of London, ed. Paul Finch, Gray Friar Press)
“The House on Cobb Street” by Lynda E. Rucker (Nightmare, June 2013)
“The Soul in the Bell Jar” by K.J. Kabza (The Magazine of Fantasy & Science Fiction, November/December 2013)
“Call Out” by Stephen Toase (Innsmouth Magazine, #12)
“That Tiny Flutter of the Heart I Used to Call Love” by Robert Shearman (Psycho-Mania!, ed. Stephen Jones, Constable & Robinson)
“Bones of Crow” by Ray Cluley (Black Static, #37)
“Introduction to the Body in Fairy Tales” by Jeannine Hall Gailey (Phantom Drift, #3)
“The Fox” by Conrad Williams (This is Horror chapbook)
“The Tin House” by Simon Clark (Shadow Masters, ed. Jeani Rector, Imajin Books)
“Stemming the Tide” by Simon Strantzas (Dead North, ed. Silvia Moreno-Garcia, Exile Editions)
“The Anatomist’s Mnemonic” by Priya Sharma (Black Static, #32)
“The Monster Makers” by Steve Rasnic Tem (Black Static, #35)
“The Only Ending We Have” by Kim Newman (Psycho-Mania!, ed. Stephen Jones, Constable & Robinson)
“The Dog’s Paw” by Derek Künsken (Chilling Tales: In Words, Alas, Drown I, ed. Michael Kelly, EDGE Science Fiction and Fantasy Publishing)
“Fine in the Fire” by Lee Thomas (Like Light For Flies, Lethe Press)
“Majorlena” by Jane Jakeman (Supernatural Tales, #24)
“The Withering” by Tim Casson (Black Static, #32)
“Down to a Sunless Sea” by Neil Gaiman (The Guardian.com)
“Jaws of Saturn” by Laird Barron (The Beautiful Thing That Awaits Us All, Night Shade Books)
“Halfway Home” by Linda Nagata (Nightmare, September 2013)
“The Same Deep Waters as You” by Brian Hodge (Weirder Shadows Over Innsmouth, ed. Stephen Jones, Fedogan & Bremer)

My WHC/Stoker weekend/SF/Nebula Award weekend schedule

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Yes, I’ll be on the west coast from May 8 to May 18th.

If you want to catch up with me, here’s my official schedule:

Portland, Oregon May 8-12

May 9th Friday

10:00 AM – 11:00 AM –Ross/Morrison

Panel: The Short Form
(Ellen Datlow, Nick Mamatas, Norman Patridge, John Shirley, E. Michael Lewis, James Lea, Minerva Zimmerman)
The short Horror story delivers a great deal of payoff to author and reader alike, and is one of the best ways to deliver Horror. Authors in the field discuss the most efficient means of administration, animation and continued locomotion.

11:00 AM – 12:00 PM –Sellwood

Panel: That is Not Dead – H. P. Lovecraft’s Contributions To Modern Horror
(S.T. Joshi, Wilum Pugmire, Cody Goodfellow, Nick Mamatas, Ross Lockhart, Ellen Datlow)
Six of the Lovecraft Circle’s brightest lights explain the renaissance going on in the Cosmic Horror subgenre today, from ‘True Detective’ back to the Providence Spook’s own literary and anthropological influences.

Friday 3-4pm signing at the Book Bin table in the Dealer’s Room -I’ll be signing Lovecraft’s Monsters (with Steve Rasnic Tem) and The Best Horror of the Year #5.

Friday 6-9pm Mass Autograph Signing-Willamette Foyer

All of your favorite writers are in one spot and are willing to sign books!

May 10th Saturday

1:00 PM – 2:00 PM –Ross/Morrison
Panel: How To Put Together A Great Anthology
(Paula Guran, Ellen Datlow, Nick Mamatas, Ross Lockhart, Jennifer Brozek) Professional anthologists, from the collector of the YEAR’S BEST HORROR to the co-editor of the original BOOK OF THE DEAD discuss the ways that the multi-headed anthology beast survives its infancy and becomes remembered.”

Banquet: 6:30-9:30

May 13- Tuesday: San Francisco, CA

Borderlands Books: signing: 7-8pm

May 17th   Saturday San Jose Nebula weekend

1-2pm  Short Fiction Editors
Scott Edelman (m)
John Joseph Adams
Ellen Datlow
Trevor Quachri
Sheila Williams

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