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Hugo-Winner Ellen Datlow on the Art of Editing Short Fiction [Publishing]
io9.com - 8/13/2009
Hugo-Winner Ellen Datlow on the Art of Editing Short Fiction [Publishing]
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An award-winning editor of genre anthologies, Ellen Datlow started her career at Omni magazine and now edits several books a year, including Year's Best Fantasy and Horror . She told us what short story editors want. I sat down with Datlow at WorldCon, where she won a Hugo last week for best ...

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On the art of editing --a very brief fly-by interview with me on IO9
ellen datlow — This was done while I was in Montreal and very much on they fly. Luckily, Annalee gave me a chance to look over her transcript when I got home so it's not totally incoherent, but there are still some sections strung together that do come across...strangely. Trying to talk about sf/f/and horror in the same 20 minute interview is tough. (so yeah. I'm making excuses!) On the art of Editing

August 14, 2009 Links and Plugs
Bibliophile Stalker — Hopefully I'll be at Yvette Tan's (no relation) book launch tomorrow at Megamall Powerbooks, 4 pm. And aside from Worldcon envy, I also have Gencon envy. This week's controversy revolves around John C. Wright's More Diversity and More Perversity in the Future! Interviews Flatmcrooked interviews Emma Straub. Annalee Newitz interviews Ellen Datlow. John Ottinger III interviews Laura Anne Gilman. Yeti Stomper interviews Cory Doctorow. Advice/Articles ...

Hugo-Winner on the Art of Editing Short Fiction - Ellen Datlow
Not Free SF Reader : Science Fiction, Fantasy, Horror — ... There's a long tradition of science fiction horror like the story "Who Goes There," which became the movie The Thing, or The Fly. Then there's the continuum of which ranges from dark fantasy to horror. [Australian horror writer] Kaaron Warren says horror goes farther than dark fantasy. But what's that extra step that makes it horror? Horror is edgier. Dark fantasy feels mushier to me. Finding the difference - it's an instinct. And they overlap a lot." 4.5 out of 5 http://io9.com/5336103/hugo+winner-ellen-datlow-on-the-art-of-editing-short-fiction ...

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SF Signal — ... io9 talks with Hugo-Winner Ellen Datlow (editor of the upcoming Lovecraft Unbound) on the art of editing short fiction. ...

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