I've just finished reading Kate Wilhelm's "Storyteller: Writing Lessons and More from 27 Years of the Clarion Writers' Workshop," a book that is a combination of memoir and instructional treatise, written by one of the field's great writers, mentors and teachers. — Read the rest
I've just finished an advance review copy of The Year's Best Science Fiction and Fantasy for Teens, the first installment of a new anthology series edited by Patrick Nielsen Hayden and Jane Yolen. This is an idea whose time has well and truly come: the editors pick stories that are suitable for teens from among the general selection of all the fantasy and science fiction published in the last year. — Read the rest
The legendary Clarion Writers Workshop at Michigan State University is being cut off by the university administration. Clarion is the long-running science fiction writers' "boot camp," that has graduated such writers as Bruce Sterling, James Patrick Kelly, Nalo Hopkinson, Kelly Link, Ted Chiang, Martha Soukup, Scott Edelman and, well, me. — Read the rest
The ninth book in the "Lemony Snicket/Series of Unforntunate Events" kids-lit series is out. It's called The Carnivorous Carnival, and the folks at my corner sf bookstore called me last night when they unboxed it, and even stayed open late so that I could pick it up. — Read the rest
Science fiction writers are circulating a petition to prevent a war in Iraq
— Read the restScience fiction and fantasy writers are among more than 100 artists who have signed an online petition opposing military action in Iraq. Signatories include SCI FICTION editor Ellen Datlow and writers Karen Joy Fowler, Lisa Goldstein, John Kessel, Kelly Link and Michael Moorcock, the Science Fiction and Fantasy Writers of America Web site reported.
I've put up a page called "12 Reasons to Pre-Order Down and Out in the Magic Kingdom," with blurbs by twelve people telling you why they think you should buy it. Here're the blurbers:
And the blurbs are great, like this one:
— Read the restWow!
Vote for your favorite alternabooks in the 2002 Firecracker Alternative Book Awards. Some of my favorites from this year are on the ballot: Kelly Link's "Stranger Things Happen," Haruki Murakami's "Underground," Chomsky's "9/11," Shoichi Aoki's "Fruits," Joe Sacco's "Palestine," and Lemony Snicket's "The Hostile Hospital." — Read the rest
Fantastic Metropolis has published my "(non-exhaustive, non-proscriptive) list of several noteworthy books that I read this year (including one book I'm in and a bunch of books by my pals and cronies)"
— Read the restStranger Things Happen
by Kelly Link
(Small Beer Press, 2001)Kelly's first short story collection is wondrous, an 11-pack of fanciful gems.
Oh, what a time I had at the WorldCon! One of the highest of the highlights was meeting up with Gavin Grant and Kelly Link, the dynamic duo behind Lady Churchill's Rosebud Wristlet, a literary zine without equal.
Apparently, we're starting a new literary movement, at the behest of Gardner Dozois, and I've been appointed ideologue. — Read the rest
