N. K. Jemisin is a Brooklyn author whose debut novel, The Hundred Thousand Kingdoms, won the Locus award and was nominated for the Hugo, Nebula, and World Fantasy Awards. Her fourth novel, The Killing Moon, is forthcoming in May from Orbit Books. You can read some of her short fiction and excerpts of each novel at nkjemisin.com.
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	Livia Llewellyn is the author of the short story collection Engines of Desire: Tales of Love & Other Horrors, published by Lethe Press. Her fiction has appeared in numerous magazines and anthologies, including Subterranean, ChiZine, and Postscripts and will be in The Best Horror of the Year Volume Four. She’s currently working on her first novel.

Wednesday February 15th, 7pm at

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

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James Patrick Kelly & Kelly Link

On Wednesday we were treated to a raconteur of Kellys, James Patrick Kelly & Kelly Link.  James read from a forthcoming story in Asimov’s  called “The Last Judgment.” And Kelly Link read an excerpt from “Two Houses,” which will be in an anthology of stories inspired by Ray Bradbury.  You can’t go wrong when there are two Kellys in the house, as Ellen’s photos of the evening prove.

	James Patrick Kelly is best known for his short fiction, Including “Think Like A Dinosaur,”  “Ten to the Sixteenth to One” and “Burn.”   His work has been translated into nineteen languages and has won the Hugo, Nebula, and Locus awards.  His most recent publishing venture is the ezine James Patrick Kelly’s Strangeways on Kindle and Nook.
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	Kelly Link is the author of three collections of stories and her fiction has won three Nebula Awards, a Hugo, and a World Fantasy Award. She recently co-edited Steampunk!: An anthology of Fantastically Rich and Strange Stories with her husband Gavin J. Grant

Wednesday January 18th, 7pm at

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A great last night of the year with Gemma Files & Ekaterina Sedia.  Hope you all had a great New Year and see you in 2012!

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

	Gemma Files is an award-winning horror writer with a twenty-year publication history whose short fiction and poetry has been published in magazines, anthologies and collections, as well as being adapted for television. She is also the author of A Book of Tongues and A Rope of Thorns, Volumes One and Two in the Hexslinger Series and is currently finishing off A Tree of Bones, which will be Hexslinger Volume Three.
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	Ekaterina Sedia is the author of The Secret History of Moscow, The Alchemy of Stone, The House of Discarded Dreams, and Heart of Iron. She is also edited several anthologies, including the World Fantasy Award winner Paper Cities. Her short stories have appeared in a number of venues.

Wednesday December 21st, 7pm at

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On Wednesday we were regaled with the stories of Claude Lalumière, who read the epilogue from his recent collection, and Jack Womack, who read an excerpt from his novel-in-progress.  Ellen’s photos of the evening can be found here.

	Jack Womack, the author of seven novels including Random Acts of Senseless Violence, is currently working on his new novel Ashland: A Kentucky Murder Ballad, from which he’ll be reading.
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	Claude Lalumière is the author of the collection Objects of Worship and the recently published novella The Door to Lost Pages, both from CZP. He has edited nine anthologies, including the Aurora Award nominee Tesseracts Twelve: New Novellas of Canadian Fantastic Fiction.

Wednesday November 16th, 7pm at

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

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The KGB Bar overflowed with folks to hear Lauren McLaughlin read from her upcoming novel Scored. And Holly Black read her story, “Everything Amiable and Obliging,” from the anthology Steampunk! Ellen was off sailing down the Danube so I took a few photos, which can be viewed here.

	Holly Black is the bestselling author of several novels, including Valiant, winner of the Andre Norton Award for Excellence in Young Adult Literature. Her most recent novels are White Cat and Red Glove of the “Curseworkers” series, and the third in the series, Black Heart, will be out in 2012. Holly’s short fiction has appeared in numerous anthologies and is collected in Poison Eaters and Other Stories. In addition, Holly has co-edited three anthologies and is working on the third volume of her graphic novel series The Good Neighbors.
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	Lauren McLaughlin is a former screenwriter whose short fiction has appeared in Salon.com, Interzone, Sybil’s Garage, and Year’s Best SF. Her first novel, Cycler, based on her own screen adaptation is in development and the sequel, (Re)Cycler, was nominated for the American Library Association’s Rainbow List for LGBT fiction. Her latest novel, the dystopian YA thriller, Scored, has been described as a “terrifyingly realistic.”

Wednesday October 19th, 7pm at

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A superb night this past Wednesday with Michael Swanwick reading a story about a love affair between two brilliant scientists and Andy Duncan reading parts of a story about a man who was once famous for having spoken with aliens.  Ellen’s photos are found here.