We are dancing on the rooftops because of two glorious online reviews of our "feminist-shetl-historical-musical audio drama" today!

Hadassah Magazine praises The Witches of Lublin as: "a story of faith, tragedy and redemption."
(This is particularly grand because my mom and all her friends read it!)

and the wonderful Dave Thompson, who's also host and ( Read more... )

For people who'd like a peek behind the scenes on Swordspoint: the AudioBook,* I can offer these:

Podcast Interview with producer/director/audio genius Sue Zizza (of SueMedia Productions) & me, on Fred Greenhalgh's Radio Drama Revival--a weekly radio show and podcast featuring "the best of contemporary audio drama (work produced after the golden age ( Read more... )

Naked City: Tales of Urban Fantasy

'"Urban fantasy" is one of those subgenre labels that I've never been quite sure of the meaning of. [....]  But in the case of Naked City, Ellen Datlow's new anthology, the meaning of urban fantasy is quite literal. Each of those twenty tales takes place in a city. The city might be a real one, or fictional; it ( Read more... )

ellen_datlow just sent the authors this delectable advance review from Publishers Weekly:

Naked City: Tales of Urban Fantasy
Edited by Ellen Datlow.. St. Martin's Griffin, $25.99 (560p) ISBN 978-0-312-60431-8; $15.99 trade paper ISBN 978-0-312-38524-8

Datlow (Digital Domains) adds to her already lengthy list of impressive anthology credits with this compilation ( Read more... )

Hot from the "Audiobook Review" pages of AudioFile Magazine:

THE WITCHES OF LUBLIN
Ellen Kushner, Elizabeth Schwartz, Yale Strom
Read by Tovah Feldshuh, Simon Jones, Barbara Rosenblat, Neil Gaiman, Elizabeth Boskey, Joanne Borts, Yelena Shmulenson, Joyce Feurring, Tim Jerome, et al.

In a story at once tragic, mystically uplifting, and historically ( Read more... )

Advance reviews are trickling in like sweet honey from the rock. From Booklist* (with only a few annotations by the co-editor):

Welcome to Bordertown: New Stories and Poems of the Borderlands.
Black, Holly (Editor) and Kushner, Ellen (Editor) and Barzak, Christopher (Author) and Brust, Steven (Author) and Bull, Emma (Author) and Clare, Cassandra ( ( Read more... )

And now: A gorgeous sneak preview review of the forthcoming anthology Welcome to Bordertown, edited by blackholly  & me, with Introduction (and story) by series creator Terri Windling . . . written by Michael M. Jones (aka oneminutemonkey , who batted his eyes so prettily at me at WFC when I had an ARC in hand) for Sleeping Hedgehog/Green Man Review:

To give you a flavor:

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Another great review of forthcoming anthology  TEETH with another great mention of my story ("History, or, Another Irritating Vampire")  - and another tortured attempt by your obdt svt not to read the reviews of the other stories in the volume, as I like coming to stuff with a blank slate mind!  I won't even read book jacket blurbs any more, if I ( Read more... )

The Datlow/Windling teen vampires that are profound & have literary value & can be genuinely scary YA anthology  TEETH is coming this March - and already advance reviews are popping up and torturing me.  Because I hate spoilers, that's why:  I want to come all brain-virginal & pristine to new work by personal heroes like Suzy Charnas & Jeff Ford & ( Read more... )

So what do you think?  Suddenly my old grey typewriter key Journal Style was boring me to tears. But is the new color enough? Or do you think I should go for something more . . . daring?

Suggest  a new Journal Theme for me?

Meanwhile, thanks to my Cousin Els (you may know her as Elisabeth Kushner, author of the story "Changeling" in THE ESSENTIAL ( Read more... )