I just got word last night that Sean Wallace and Rachel Swirsky will be taking “The History Within Us” for their anthology, The People of the Book.  Here’s a description of the anthology from Fantasy Magazine’s website: “Edited by Rachel Swirsky and Sean Wallace Introduction by Ann VanderMeer From Sholom Aleichem to Avram Davidson, Isaac Bashevis Singer to Tony Kushner, the Jewish literary tradition has always been one rich in the supernatural and the fantastic. In these pages, gathered from the best short fiction of the last ten years, thirty …

I’m trying to get Sybil’s Garage completed in time for Readercon, just about seventeen days from now.  So far I’ve laid out the text and included minimal artwork and call-outs.  I still have the marginalia to add, as well the cover to design.  The latter of which I expect to take a few days by itself because the cover has to be spectacular.  I don’t think a cover makes a book but it can certainly break one.  All of this is a lot of work for sure, but it’s also …

I just discovered this very positive review of “The History Within Us” from Best SF this morning: “So the other day I listened to Kate Baker reading Matthew Kressel’s ‘The History Within Us’, which was published in March 2010. Obviously the sensible thing for you to do is to leave Best SF (what, a website encouraging you to leave it??) and either listen to the podcast here or read the story here. You’ll be reading it one of the Year’s Best Anthologies next year.” The reviewer especially praises …

FANTASTIC FICTION at KGB reading series, hosts Ellen Datlow and Matthew Kressel present: Jack Ketchum, the author of four story collections (one with Edward Lee), many novellas and thirteen novels, four of which have been filmed to date — The Lost, Red, The Girl Next Door and Offspring. He is the four-time winner of the Bram Stoker Award for his fiction and Stephen King has called him “the scariest guy in America.” His latest mass-market release is the novel Joyride, backed with the novella Weed Species. & Scott Edelman, whose …

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