Tag Archives: Caitlin R. Kiernan

THE YEAR’S BEST DARK FANTASY & HORROR

And in the squeeee that was heard around the world, the lovely Paula Guran at Prime Books has picked up my short story “Sun Falls” (from Ticonderoga Publications’ Dead Red Heart).

Also on the list are Margo Lanagan, Tanith Lee, Norman Partidge, Joan Aiken, Caitlin R Kiernan, Kaaron Warren,
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First Book of Horrors review

And what a review! Woot. *snoopy dance*

In the introduction to this collection Stephen Jones makes an impassioned plea to reclaim the horror genre from the gathering hordes of vapid vampires and cliched zombies “for those who understand and appreciate the worth and impact of a scary story”, well
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Win a hard cover copy of A Book of Horrors

Okay, so now that this beautiful, disturbing book has been launched at FantasyCon in Brighton last weekend, it’s time to run this competition. T’will run for a week from today.

The all important question is located here – to the right of the page, over, over, there!
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A Book of Horrors

Just a reminder that A Book of Horrors will be launched at Fantasy Con in Brighton on 1.10.11. There will be signings. There will be booky goodness.

And there will be a
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And this morning I woke up to …

…  to a LOT of emails telling me that Sourdough and Other Stories has been shortlisted for a World Fantasy Award for Best Collection.

Which was awesome, because look at the other folk in the category:

Best Collection

What I Didn’t See and Other Stories, Karen Joy Fowler (Small Beer)
The
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The Charcloth, Firesteel and Flint Drive-by: Caitlín R. Kiernan

Caitlín R. Kiernan is the author of (among others) Silk, The Five Cups, The Red Tree, Murder of Angels and the novelisation of the film, Beowulf. She’s also produced over one hundred short stories and novellas. She has won a myriad of awards, including multiple International Horror Guild
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Year’s Best Dark Fantasy & Horror

Paula Guran has announced the ToC for the 2011 Year’s Best Dark Fantasy & Horror … and Brisneyland by Night got a berth!!

Snoopy dancing? Who? Me? Maybe a little …

Look at those names on the cover … Hells, yeah, I iz snoopy dancing!

Margo Lanagan, Holly Black, Caitlín R.
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And in the mail this morning …

… it was worth the indignity of answering the door in my PJs, because the below was the result – All Hail, Steampunk II!!

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Last Drink Bird Head – Promote Literacy

A very good book for a very good cause: promoting literacy.

Team VanderMeer have put together this anthology for ProLiteracy. So, you get to help out (thus increasing your karma-credits) and you get a fantastic read – look at those writers, look at those names! Nothing wrong with any of this.

What Is Last Drink Bird Head?

That’s the catalyst editors Ann and
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