FANTASTIC FICTION at KGB reading series, hosts Ellen Datlow and Matthew Kressel present:

	Scott Westerfeld is best known for the Uglies series. His latest book, the New York Times-bestselling Leviathan, won both the Locus Award and the Aurealis Award for best YA novel of 2009. The series continues in October 2010 with Behemoth.
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	Susan Beth Pfeffer, who with the publication of her novel, This World We Live In, has completed her Last Survivors Trilogy, which also includes the New York Times Best Selling Novel, Life As We Knew It and The Dead And The Gone.  Susan’s next book, Blood Wounds, will be published by Houghton Mifflin Harcourt in the Fall of 2011.

Wednesday September 15th, 7pm at

KGB Bar, 85 East 4th Street (just off 2nd Ave, upstairs.)

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On Wednesday we were wonderfully entertained by two very talented writers.  Laura Anne Gilman read a scene from Hard Magic, in which the protagonist is invited to a very strange job interview.

And Mary Robinette Kowal read from Shades of Milk and Honey, after which she performed a brief shadowplay about a rude laborer and a determined, but not grudge-free, pedestrian.

Ellen’s photos from the evening can be found here.

FANTASTIC FICTION at KGB reading series, hosts Ellen Datlow and Matthew Kressel present:

	Laura Anne Gilman is the author of more than a dozen novels, including the Nebula-nominated Flesh and Fire and Hard Magic, part of the best-selling “Cosa Nostradamus” urban fantasy series.  She has also sold more than twenty-five short stories, published in magazines and anthologies such as Polyphony and Realms of Fantasy. Her forthcoming novels include Weight of Stone: Book 2 of The Vineart War, and Pack of Lies.
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	Mary Robinette Kowal is the author of Shades of Milk and Honey (Tor 2010), the fantasy novel that Jane Austen might have written. In 2008 she received the Campbell Award for Best New Writer and in 2009 her story “Evil Robot Monkey” was nominated for the Hugo Award. Her stories have appeared in Strange Horizons, Asimov’s, and several Year’s Best anthologies. Subterranean Press released her short story collection, Scenting the Dark and Other Stories, in 2009. Mary is also  a professional puppeteer

Wednesday August 18th, 7pm at

KGB Bar, 85 East 4th Street (just off 2nd Ave, upstairs.)

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Catherynne M. Valente	M.K. Hobson

Inside a packed house, M.K. Hobson read from her forthcoming novel, The Native Star, and Cat Valente read from her forthcoming work, Deathless.  And there was an accordion.

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FANTASTIC FICTION at KGB reading series, hosts Ellen Datlow and Matthew Kressel present:

	Catherynne M. Valente,  author of over a dozen works of fiction and poetry, including Palimpsest, the Orphan’s Tales series, and The Girl Who Circumnavigated Fairyland in a Ship of Own Making. She is the winner of the Tiptree Award, the Mythopoeic Award, the Andre Norton Award, the Rhysling Award, and the Million Writers Award. She is a finalist for the Hugo Award this year. Over the next year she has three novels and a short story collection coming out, as well as short stories in Welcome to Bordertown, Haunted Legends, and the YA vampire anthology Teeth. She’ll be reading from her upcoming novel Deathless.
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	M.K. Hobson, the author of over thirty short stories, which have been published or are forthcoming in magazines and anthologies such as SCI FICTION, Realms of Fantasy, The Magazine of Fantasy and Science Fiction, Strange Horizons, Postscripts, Interzone, Digital Domains, Haunted Legends, and Polyphony. Her debut novel, The Native Star will be out from Bantam Spectra in September, to be followed by a sequel in the summer 2011. She is one of the co-hosts of Podcastle and is a regular reader for Fantasy Magazine‘s podcast series.

Wednesday July 21st, 7pm at

KGB Bar, 85 East 4th Street (just off 2nd Ave, upstairs.)

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Jack Ketchum	Scott Edelman

Jack Ketchum & Scott Edelman entertained a full house on this temperate Wednesday night.  We safely ignored the stomping zombies upstairs, to our own benefit.

Ellen’s photos of the evening can be found here.

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.
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	Scott Edelman, whose short stories have been published in a wide range of anthologies and magazines including The Solaris Book of New Science Fiction, Crossroads: Tales of the Southern Literary Fantastic, Forbidden Planets, and Postscripts. Some of them have been collected in These Words Are Haunted and in What Will Come After, the latter a complete collection of his zombie fiction, just published by PS Publishing. He’s been a Stoker Award finalist five times. Additionally, Edelman currently works for the Syfy Channel as the Editor of SCI FI Wire and was founding editor of Science Fiction Age, which he edited during its entire eight-year run. He has been nominated for the Best Editor Hugo four times.

Wednesday June 16th, 7pm at

KGB Bar, 85 East 4th Street (just off 2nd Ave, upstairs.)

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Terence Taylor	Leanna Renne Hieber

Terence Taylor first entertained us with hate mail from a disgruntled reader, and then he went on to read the passage which caused the reader such agitation (a boy drowns his beloved dog at the behest of his mom).  Then we heard alternatively heartwarming and frightening excerpts from his novel.

Leanna read from both her works — in period English accents no less — about the pale, beautiful girl (the titular Percy Parker) who can see ghosts.

Ellen’s photos of the evening can be found here.

FANTASTIC FICTION at KGB reading series, hosts Ellen Datlow and Matthew Kressel present:

	Terence Taylor, an award-winning children’s television writer whose work has appeared on PBS, Nickelodeon, and Disney. After a career of comforting kids, he’s now equally devoted to scaring their parents. His short horror stories have been published in all three “Dark Dreams” horror/suspense anthologies. Bite Marks was his first novel and Blood Pressure, just out from St. Martin’s, is the second in the opening trilogy of the Vampire Testaments.
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	Leanna Renee Hieber is a actress and playwright who has adapted several works of 19th Century literature for the stage, and her one-act plays have been produced around the country. Her novella Dark Nest won the 2009 Prism Award for excellence in the genres of Futuristic, Fantasy and/or Paranormal Romance.  Her debut novel, The Strangely Beautiful Tale of Miss Percy Parker (which made the Barnes & Noble Bestseller List)is the first of a quartet of gothic Victorian fantasy novels published by Dorchester. The second book in the series, The Darkly Luminous Fight for Persephone Parker was recently released.

Wednesday May 19th, 7pm at

KGB Bar, 85 East 4th Street (just off 2nd Ave, upstairs.)

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Richard Bowes	Jeffrey Ford

This evening will not be easily forgotten.  One of my all around personal favorites because two of my favorite authors got to read.  Richard Bowes started us off with “Venues,” a story about a spec fic writer giving readings at various spots around New York.  It was the perfect story for the crowd.  It’s coming out soon in F&SF.

And Jeffrey Ford read a story, “Polka Dots and Moonbeams,” a surreal and strange and wonderful period piece he said was trying to evoke the feel of the old black and whites. (It did, and then some.)  In the story, he Tuckerized Robert Killheffer, the winner of such in last year’s KGB Raffle.  The story is coming out soon in Stories, an anthology edited by Neil Gaiman and Al Sarrantonio.

All in all, it was a wonderful night.

Ellen’s photos from the evening can be seen here.