Monstrous Affections

An anthology of beastly tales, edited by Kelly Link and Gavin Grant

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Holy bananas, that ended surprisingly well! This is why I never write these things. There's too much I'll miss and that's an hour I should have been napping

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In which this book wins an award!

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Yesterday I was offline and before I left I said to the world, hey, Tuesday was great, so, Wednesday, what have you got? And apparently what Wednesday had

Lovely news! If all goes well, we should be in Saratoga Springs for the World (er, mostly North American) Fantasy Convention in November and will offer congrats to whomever picks up the gong for best anthology as it is, honestly, an honor to be nominated. So, congratulations to all nominated!

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Happy to see Alice Sola Kim’s terrifying and wonderful story will be reprinted here!

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Monstrous Illustration!

Yuko Shimizu reports that her cover illustration for Monstrous Affections  has been selected for American Illustration #34. Nice!

“Below are my works that are accepted into AI 34. Thank you judges and thank you clients for giving me an opportunity to create interesting images. (from top: Twitter Tsunami, publication: Newsweek cover, AD: Priest+Grace, Michael Friel,  Little Nemo Dream Another Dream, client: Locust Moon Press, publisher + editor + AD: Josh O’Neill, Chris Stevens and Andrew Carl,  Il Grande Torino, publication: 8by8, publisher + editor + AD: Priest+Grace, Monstrous Affections, publisher: Candlewick Press, AD: Nathan Pyritz)”

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2014 Aurealis Awards finalists announced Conflux Inc., organisers of the 2014 Aurealis Awards, are delighted to announce the finalists for the 2014 Aurealis Awards. Judging Coordinator, Tehani Wess...

Congratulations Kathleen Jennings!

BEST GRAPHIC NOVEL/ILLUSTRATED WORK FINALIST

“A Small Wild Magic”, Kathleen Jennings (Monstrous Affections, Candlewick Press)

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Today we're changing the title of Monstrous Affections to Monstrous Lovelies.

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Jonathan Strahan drops The Best Science Fiction and Fantasy of the Year Vol 9

and there are 3 stories from Monstrous Affections as well as one from my co-editor, Kelly Link (from My True Love Gave To Me!). Looks like another fantastic anthology from Jonathan!

“Tough Times All Over”, Joe Abercrombie

“The Scrivener”, Eleanor Arnason

“Moriabe’s Children”, Paolo Bacigalupi

“Covenant”, Elizabeth Bear

“Slipping”, Lauren Beukes

“Ten Rules for Being an Intergalactic Smuggler (The Successful Kind)”, Holly Black

“Shadow Flock”, Greg Egan

“The Truth About Owls”, Amal El-Mohtar

“Cimmeria: From the Journal of Imaginary Anthropology”, Theodora Goss

 “Cold Wind”, Nicola Griffith

 “Someday”, James Patrick Kelly

“Interstate Love Song (Murder Ballad No.8)”, Caitlin R Kiernan

“Mothers, Lock Up Your Daughters Because They are Terrifying”, Alice Sola Kim

“Amicae Aeternum”, Ellen Klages

 “Calligo Lane”, Ellen Klages

“The Lady and the Fox”, Kelly Link

“The Long Haul From the ANNALS OF TRANSPORTATION”, The Pacific Monthly, May 2009”, Ken Liu

“The Vaporization Enthalpy of a Peculiar Pakistani Family”, Usman T Malik

 “Four Days of Christmas”, Tim Maughan

 “The Fifth Dragon”, Ian McDonald

“Shay Corsham Worsted”, Garth Nix

“I Met a Man Who Wasn’t There”, K. J. Parker

“Kheldyu”, Karl Schroeder

“Tawny Petticoats”, Michael Swanwick

“Grand Jeté (The Great Leap)”, Rachel Swirsky

“The Insects of Love”, Genevieve Valentine

“Collateral”, Peter Watts

“The Devil in America”, Kai Ashante Wilson

[Via: tor.com!]

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Pics from our showing of work from the Applied Semiotics course I teach at UB plus guest student artists. The entire course focused on the idea of the grotesque or the monstrous as a powerful metaphor for dealing with different types of trauma, fears, and negotiation of socialized identities. Closing reception is December 4th, 2014 at UB Lower Art Gallery from 5pm-7pm.

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"we almost crashed on our way home cause some idiot put eyes on this tree" via @ohhpe on Twitter

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Philip Jackson. 1944.

Winner of National Peace Sculpture Competition, Manchester City Council, 1987. Elected Fellow Royal Society of British Sculptors.

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Luke swooped in again: third time was the charm, as he didn’t stumble and Elliot seemed pleased. He put his arm round Luke’s neck and said, “Don’t let me die, I’m brilliant and worth at least four soldiers. You’ll need me when the battle’s over.”

"I won’t let you die," Luke promised.

I also very much enjoy this scene

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HOLY GOD LOOK AT THOSE WINGS. IN THE SUNLIGHT. THOSE WINGS. What beautiful art!

… WINGS.

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Interview with me, Kelly, Sarah Rees Brennan, and M. T. Anderson!

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Monstrorum historia cum Paralipomenis historiae omnium animalium, Bologna, 1642 by Ulisse Aldrovandi (1522-1605), 

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Notebook with the ‘novelisation’ of my comic “A Small Wild Magic” (from Monstrous Affections), for a reading.

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Fab news: Monstrous Affections is a Junior Library Guild pick!

"In wildly creative, original stories, fifteen YA authors investigate the intense passions that arise when monsters such as krakens and harpies live alongside humans"

Lovely to see Peter Dickinson's collection Earth and Air posted as one of the suggested titles.

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Pictures from The Resurrectionistby E.B. Hudspeth.

I recommend it wholeheartedly! It’s full of pictures like these!

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A review of Monstrous Affections from Shelf Awareness:

Monsters "exist in violation of the way we think things ought to be," write Kelly Link and Gavin J. Grant (Steampunk!), editors of another delightful (often frightful) anthology of short fantasy fiction--this time about some lovable monsters, the choices they pose and the humans they meet. The introduction to this anthology of 15 stories provides information (and an entertaining pop quiz) about the contents. The well-known authors chose to portray monsters of different types: vampires, embedded spirits and harpies, among others. The strong writing brims with misdirection, humor, horrors and twisty endings. Paolo Bacigalupi's "Moriabe's Children" raises questions about the definition of family: Can the krackens of the deep be kinder to a girl than her own mother is? Holly Black's rollicking "Ten Rules for Being an Intergalactic Smuggler (The Successful Kind)" prepares readers to survive a pirate attack on a smuggler's ship (e.g., "Don't hide in the cargo hold, because everybody wants what's in the cargo hold"). "Mothers, Lock up Your Daughters Because They Are Terrifying" by Alice Sola Kim features a group of friends who met at an event for Korean adoptees, who summon a spirit (called "Mom") that literally takes possession of them--to the girls' increasing dismay. This substantial volume will provide older teens--and adults--with hours of thoroughly enjoyable reading. A monstrously entertaining anthology. --Ellen Loughran

Discover: An anthology distinguished by a highly creative approach to monsters that will appeal to teens and adults alike.