Macarthur "Genius" Kelly Link and her husband Gavin Grant are the forces-of-nature behind the amazing Small Beer Press (previously).

The MacArthur Foundation has announced its 2018 Fellows (AKA the "MacArthur Genius Prize winners"), a list of 25 remarkable people from all disciplines, including the incomparable Kelly Link (previously), who joins other science fiction writers who won the prize, including Octavia Butler and Jonathan Lethem. — Read the rest

David writes, "Whenever I ask guests of Between The Covers who their touchstone writers are, nobody is more often mentioned than Kelly Link. We talk (MP3) doppelgangers, rorschach tests, finding one's authentic mask, Basho, Buffy, weird writing rituals, and about her latest (and perhaps greatest) new collection Get in Trouble."

Gavin sez,

Kelly Link just released her second book, Magic for Beginners, online for
a year under the Creative Commons license. 2 of the 9 stories aren't
included due to contractual agreements but this is huge news because two
giant companies, Houghton Mifflin Harcourt (who published it in paperback)
and HarperPerennial (who published the UK edition) have agreed to take a
chance and be a part of the CC movement.

The latest installment of Rick Kleffel's Trashotron podcast is an interview with sf greats Karen Joy Fowler (whose magic realist novel about Chinese rail workers on the US frontier, Sarah Canary, still haunts me, nearly 20 years after I first read it), Kelly Link (author of the magnificent short story collections Stranger Things Happen and Magic for Beginners) and Gavin Grant (Kelly's husband and publisher of Small Beer Press and the wonderful sf zine Lady Churchill's Rosebud Wristlet). — Read the rest

Telltale Weekly has just released a free MP3 reading of Kelly Link's amazing story "The Girl Detective." Kelly's work leaves me jaw-dropped and gob-smacked, and I rate "The Girl Detective" up there with her Nebula-winning, Hugo-nominated novella Magic For Beginners (read this now, run don't walk). — Read the rest

The 2005 Nebula Awards have been announced and several of my favorites were winners — including two knockout Kelly Link stories from her collection Magic for Beginners —

Novel:
Camouflage, by Joe Haldeman,
(Analog, March-May 2004, also Ace book Aug. 2004)

Novella:
"Magic for Beginners", by Kelly Link,
(Magic for Beginners, Small Beer Press, July 2005;
also in The Magazine of Fantasy & Science Fiction, Sept.

Kelly Link is the best short-fiction writer working in science fiction and fantasy today, and her new collection, Magic for Beginners, proves it. The book came out some months ago, but I've been backlogged — however, once I started this magnificent collection, I couldn't put it down. — Read the rest

The other day I blogged the Creative Commons release of Kelly Link's stupendous short-story collection Stranger Things Happen.

Indie audiobook publisher TellTale Weekly has just released a free audio adaptation of one of the knockout stories from Link's collection, Most of My Friends Are Two-Thirds Water, a genuinely creepy horror story. — Read the rest

Kelly Link's short story collection Stranger Things Happen is one of the strongest, most original books of stories I've ever read, comparable to modern classics like Ted Chiang's Stories of Your Life and Others Now comes the news that, 1) Kelly has a new collection out (w00t! — Read the rest

Kelly Link, the brilliant short-story author (her collection, "Stranger Things Happen," is absolutely required reading — I even got a spare copy to loan to co-workers), is being interviewed by her talented husband, Gavin Grant, on the WELL's public conference.

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Hey! Kelly Link won the Nebula yesterday for her fantastic story, "Louise's Ghost," from her even-more-fantastic collection, "Stranger Things Happen" (run, don't walk!)

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(Thanks, Pat!)

One of my favorite Kelly Link stories, online for free. Damn, I wish I had her gift for titles.

When I first moved into my father's garage, I got a job at the textile mill where my father has worked for the last twenty years.

An excerpt from Kelly Link's story ""Travels With the Snow Queen."LinkDiscuss

Kelly Link is one of the most startling and wonderful new science fiction writers working in the field today. Her stories are mind-boggling and funny and fine. Today, Salon interviews Kelly about her collection of short stories, Stranger Things Happen. — Read the rest

From WCVB Channel 5:

Northampton officials are giving a $20,000 grant to the Northampton Vibrance Committee to support the design and manufacture of four custom manhole covers. The grant is part of the city's plan to distribute $4 million from the American Rescue Plan, a COVID-19 pandemic stimulus package. 

I had the privilege of attending the prestigious Clarion Writer's Workshop at the Arthur C. Clarke Center for Human Imagination at UCSD in 2013, where I learned about writing from Cory Doctorow, MacArthur Award-winner Kelly Link, and other fantastic speculative fiction authors. — Read the rest

Fantastic Fiction at KGB is a monthly reading series hosted by Ellen Datlow and Matthew Kressel, held on the third Wednesday of every month at the famous KGB Bar in Manhattan. They are looking to fund several more years of their popular reading series via a Kickstarter fundraiser, running from May 17th through June 14th, 2017.

A guide to the charities we support in our own annual giving.

The latest Humble Ebook Bundle features 15 DRM-free ebooks, with works by Fritz Leiber, Kelly Link, Mary Robinette Kowal, Neil Gaiman, Peter Beagle, Madeline L'Engle and many others — name your price and how much you'd like to divert to charities, including the Comic Book Legal Defense Fund, the Science Fiction Writers of America's Givers Fund, and Patrick Rothfuss's Worldbuilders.