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(1) Post. As we close out the last week of turbulent 2020, there are 15 boxes stacked precariously on a couch in the small living room of this house. There are another 20 or so identical boxes crammed floor-to-ceiling in a dark corner of the basement. All of them contain what I refer to grandiosely as “my papers.”By that I mean a lifetime’s accumulation of letters, newspaper clippings, reporter’s notebooks, photocopied articles, three-ring binders, file folders, photographs, ID cards a...

Over the Woodward Wall (Tor.com Publishing 10/20) Baker is an open pseudonym for Seanan McGuire, and Over the Woodward Wall began as a book-within-a-book, a middle-grade fantasy discussed in McGuire’s 2019 novel Middlegame. The full-length version is a deliberately classic children’s fantasy and begins the Up-and-Under series. “Delec­table, a ripe treat for lifelong readers…. It’s filled with adventure and wisdom, and navigates well-worn ideas with fresh enthusiasm.” [Katharine C...

(1) INTRODUCING BUTLER TO NEW READERS. Elizabeth Connor describes the work of “repackaging the Patternist Series for the Mother of Afrofuturism” in “How to Give Octavia Butler the Covers She Deserves” at Literary Hub. …After some back and forth—and plenty of discussion with the editor acting as mediator—we determined that by elegant, they likely meant more stylized human forms in more sophisticated poses, as well as a textural or brushy quality to the art (as there had been on t...

Mon Dec 14, 2020 9:00am 8 Favorites [+] Tordotcom Publishing is thrilled to announce a new take on the tradition of Christmas ghost stories with M. Rickert’s Lucky Girl, How I Became A Horror Writer: A Krampus Story—publishing Fall 2022. Ro, a struggling writer, is well aware that not everyone has a merry Xmas. When she meets four lonely strangers at the local diner, she invites them to Christmas dinner. And when that party seems in danger of an early end, she suggests they tell ghost stor...

Photo: Gwenda Bond Tordotcom Publishing is thrilled to announce the acquisition of two novellas by Christopher Rowe. The two-book deal, for World English rights, was brokered by DongWon Song at the Howard Morhaim Literary Agency. Jonathan Strahan has acquired These Prisoning Hills, a standalone novella set in the same Kentuckian post-apocalyptic setting as his previous stories “The Voluntary State” and “The Border State.” Said editor Jonathan Strahan: I fell in love with Christopher Ro...