In this busy social season, deliasherman has her heart set on finishing revisions of THE FREEDOM MAZE for Big Mouth House before we leave for Florida on the 26th.  When I mention Cards, she looks perilously close to tears.  This would not be a big deal, except for the fact that in the past two years it was my *ehrm*KLEZMER NUTCRACKER shows & performances that ( Read more... )

Paul Witcover's review of my story/book The Man with the Knives in the December 2010 issue of Realms of Fantasy (online) is pure poetry.  I really did shed a few tears of joy when I read it.  Paul is himself a fiction writer to be reckoned with, so his approbation is not only exquisite in craft, but the gift of a respected colleague.  (At a recent ( Read more... )

Just found (via Twitter, of all things) this lovely & loving review of the French edition of my Thomas the Rhymer.  In the online 'zine Yozone.fr, reviewer Nicolas Soffray concludes his review of Thomas le Rimeur with: "Ellen Kushner est une voix majeure de la fantasy merveilleuse, hélas bien rare en français...." --and adds something nice about « ( Read more... )

 Author joelyskye  has put Swordspoint at the top of her Top Ten list of faves on elisa_rolle  's LJ, "Reviews & Ramblings" --  right on up there with Mary Renault , Laura Kinsale, & omigod Dorothy Dunnett!  Dunnett was a huge influence on me; I took her Lymond books as a personal challenge, and learned a lot.

And I can't stop re-reading this exquisite review of The ( Read more... )

But nobody guessed the story!

So, nu?

This also seems like a good place to mention that my All New All Revised (and updated) BIBLIOGRAPHY is now up on my website! Please feel free Beta-test it and let me know if anything's missing or unclear ( Read more... )