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The Beastly Bride: and Other Tales of the Animal People is DONE
[info]ellen_datlow
Terri and I are about to hand in the fourth anthology in the "mythic" series begun with The Green Man. It's been a long haul and I thank all the contributors (and those whose stories we didn't buy for the book) for their hard work and patience.

Here is the Table of Contents--the book should be out from Viking in spring 2010.

The Beastly Bride and Other Tales of the Animal People
Table of Contents
Preface by Ellen Datlow and Terri Windling
Introduction by Terri Windling
Island Lake by E. Catherine Tobler
The Puma’s Daughter by Tanith Lee
Map of Seventeen by Christopher Barzak
The Selkie Speaks by Delia Sherman
Bear’s Bride by Johanna Sinisalo
The Abominable Child’s Tale by Carol Emshwiller
The Hikikomori by Hiromi Goto
The Comeuppance of Creegus Maxin by Gregory Frost
Ganesha by Jeffrey Ford
The Elephant’s Bride by Jane Yolen
The Children of Cadmus by Ellen Kushner
The White Doe Mourns Her Childhood by Jeanine Hall Gailey
The White Doe’s Love Song by Jeanine Hall Gailey
The White Doe Decides by Jeanine Hall Gailey
Coyote and Valorosa by Terra L. Gearheart
One Thin Dime by Stewart Moore
The Monkey Bride by Midori Snyder
Pishaach by Shweta Narayan
The Salamander Fire by Marly Youmans
The Margay’s Children by Richard Bowes
Thumbleriggery and Fledglings by Steve Berman
The Flock by Lucius Shepard
The Children of the Shark God by Peter Beagle
Rosina by Nan Fry
Further Reading

That's so exciting! The mythic series is among my favourite thigs you edit, Both Green Man and Faery Reel are beautiful and I'm impatiently awaiting the publishing of Coyote Road

You mean the paperback? Coyote Road has been out in hc for over a year :-).
Glad you enjoy them.

Yes. I'm a poor college student, so paperbacks are what I can afford. Between the mythic series and the faerie tale series, you edit basically all my favourite fantasy anthologies.

I understand! Although the hardcovers are relatively inexpensive, compared to adult books ;-)
Thank you.

Yay, another Datlow anthology! They are uniformly made of awesome. (I apologise for my total fangirl squee here, but ZOMG! ELLEN DATLOW! IS GOD!)

Drama, I'm in a similar boat. I live on the arse end of the world, where the exchange rate sucks and shipping sucks worse, so a US$25 hardback costs me around NZ$90. Paperbacks are my friends.

Wow! Thank you :-)

Yikes!! That's crazy--if I ever get back to NZ I'll have to crate a bunch of books and sell them at their correct price to all and sundry!!!

If you ever get back to NZ, I'll be the one at the airport genuflecting and fangirl-squeeing at you :-)

No need for books. Just bring your brain and let me pick it, and in return I'll cook you a truly excellent dinner. (NZ wines are good enough to make pretty much anything taste excellent.)

LOL--You're on. I've been to NZ twice, visiting each island once--and I love NZ wine!!! Perhaps enroute to Oz for the Melbourne Worldcon if I have time and the flights work out.

I'll pick you up at the airport :-DDDDD

Can't wait! I recognize some of these authors!

And even better, we have several new writers: several we haven't used before in our series, and I believe the Narayan, Gearheart, and Moore are first fiction sales, although all three might have stories out before our antho is published.

Yay, Shweta! I look forward to reading the finished version of Pishaach.

Mine was a first pro-level fiction sale

[info]shweta_narayan

2008-12-16 01:13 am (UTC)

and first over 800 words, but not a first fiction sale.
Wouldn't that have been a grand entree though, if it were.


*runs off being excited now*

FURRIEZ OTHERKINZ LOLZOMGWTFBBQ

Er I mean...

Sounds neat, I will check it out!

You have to wear an animal pattern while reading the book, you know.

I am tremendously excited about this topic and this lineup.*

*Um, seeing the post above mine ... not in a "*love* your hamster" kind of a way, just in a "my dissertation was about these stories" kind of a way. The clarification seemed like a good call.

Be kind if you review the book :-)

What field was your dissertation in? Sounds like a fantastic topic for several different disciplines.

I'd never dream of being otherwise - the first three are all favorites. :)

Unt, thanks! The diss. was English with a Comp. Lit. twist, and I'm currently revising it for publication (and thus, hoping that publishing companies will share your opinion). The official title was "Fantastic Emigres: Fairy Tales in a Literary Diaspora." I basically used transformation tales - "Beauty and the Beast," "The Blue Bird," "The Frog Prince" - as examples of how fairy tales were normalized and mainstreamed to the point that their subversive elements overflowed into a new genre ... fantasy, making for a kind of a meta-transformation-tale. Grad. school was marvelous. Now, the grading that comes with being a professor ... that's another story. And, with that, back to the 150 grades that need to be done by TOMORROW ....

P.S. - Just noticed the fact that your name's in the line-up - congratulations!

Was the mainstreaming of it related to a shift from the oral tradition to the more official written literature at all? If so I now want to know the sociolinguistic story behind it, and how it might relate to the subversive side of fanfic.

I think I'll be relieved that I've never had the final say on grades.
And thank you!

Hooray for Shweta! *bouncebounce*

Can't wait to read it. :D

Wonderful! I'm anticipating reading yours and Terri's new antho.

Ooh, I'm very much looking forward to this! I've really enjoyed the other books in the series.

Looking forward to it. Alas, I have to wait for more than a year...

You and everyone else, I'm afraid!

So many big names/wonderful authors. . .and a friend of mine! I cannot wait for this to come out.

Who's the friend that's in the book?

And it's a story Shveta helped with a great deal, too, both before and after the wonderful Clarion crits.

Ah... I mistook Shveta for Shweta--is the derivation of your names the same?

It's the same name, just a different transliteration. :)

Congrads for all the newcomers! JeffV will be pleased too.

The gang is all (mostly) here like a (decided to forego the jello metaphor and go with the obviously bland) warm glove.

Looks like it's going to be a great read, just getting a feel based on the names I'm a familiar with. And I'm sure the stories from the others will be well worth the read too! :)

And plus, it's an Ellen Datlow/Terri Windling collaboration!

Thank you. I hope we continue to deserve your acclaim :-)

:) Of course! :) Like so many others, I've been introduced to the works of a lot of great new writers by reading your anthologies.

Ellen, what attractive galleys those are! Congratulations: it looks like another especially lovely book.

We haven't seen the cover yet but I'm sure it'll look wonderful--the inside layout is very nice.


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