People & Publishing Roundup, March 2024

MILESTONES

DAVID-CHRISTOPHER GAL­HEA is now represented via Ginger Clark Literary.

DANI RAANAN is now repre­sented by the John Jarrold Literary Agency.

J. FEDERLE is now a client of Ginger Clark Literary.

 

AWARDS

SUSAN COOPER is the 40th recipient of the Damon Knight Memorial Grand Master Award, presented via the Science Fiction & Fantasy Writers Association. She will be honored June 6-9, 2024, at the 59th Nebula Awards Ceremony in ...Read More

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People & Publishing Roundup, February 2024

MILESTONES

LESLYE PENELOPE is now represented by Arley Sorg of kt literary.

MEG ELISON is now repre­sented by Arley Sorg of kt literary.

AWARDS

R.L. STINE and KATHERINE HALL PAGE have been named the 2024 Mystery Writers of America Grand Masters. MICHAELA HAMILTON of Kensington Publishing will receive the Ellery Queen Award. The recipients will be honored at the annual Edgar Awards ceremony on May 1, 2024 in New York ...Read More

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People & Publishing Roundup, December and January 2023

MILESTONES

JESMYN WARD’s Let Us De­scend (Scribner) has been chosen by Oprah Winfrey as the next title for her Book Club. Winfrey said, “I have read all of Jesmyn Ward’s books and have been a fan of her writing for years. Let Us Descend is a vital work for our culture and I’m so excited to have her newest offering as part of our Book Club.”

 

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People & Publishing Roundup, November 2023

MILESTONES

CHARLES E. GANNON is now represented by Vaughne Hansen & Christine Cohen of the Virginia Kidd Agency.

 

AWARDS

NICOLA GRIFFITH’s Spear (Tordotcom) was longlisted for the 2023 Crown Awards, presented by the Historical Writers Associa­tion. The shortlist was announced October 18, 2023, and winners will be revealed on November 22, 2023.

NAOMI KRITZER’s ‘‘The Dragon Project’’ (Clarkesworld 3/22) won the Washington Science Fiction Association Small Press ...Read More

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People & Publishing Roundup, October 2023

MILESTONES

Sibling author duo ELIZA­BETH & KATHARINE CORR are now represented by Pérez Literary & Entertainment.

AWARDS

Writer, producer, and pup­peteer MARTY KROFFT, 86, won the Julie Award for life­time achievement in multiple genres, presented at Dragon Con.

RICH LARSON’s ‘‘Quandary Aminu vs The Butterfly Man’’ (Tor.com 9/21/22) won the 2023 Eugie Foster Memorial Award for Short Fiction, and Larson received $1,000 and a plaque. The award, announced ...Read More

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People & Publishing Roundup, September 2023

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RICHARD BLEILER won the 2023 Munsey Award, given at Pulpfest to “an individual or or­ganization that has bettered the pulp community.” Nominees were selected by the general pulp com­munity, with the winner selected by a vote of past Lamont, Munsey, and Rusty Awards winners.

CARYL LEWIS’s Drift (Double­day UK) was the Overall Win­ner at the Wales Book of the Year Award for English-language works, and also won the ...Read More

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City Dedicates Avenue to Octavia E. Butler

On July 29, 2023, the city of Lake Forest Park, WA held a ceremony to name a section of 37th Avenue NE “Octavia Butler Avenue,” in honor of author Octavia E. Butler. The section includes the house where Butler lived from 1999 until her death in 2006. The ceremony was opened by city council vice-chair Phillippa Kassover, deputy mayor Tom French, and council member Tracy Furutani. Other speakers included Caren ...Read More

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People & Publishing Roundup, August 2023

MILESTONES

ROBERT SILVERBERG has written a story, his first since retiring over a decade ago, set to appear in Analog: “It is all of three sentences long, a takeoff on Fredric Brown’s classic story ‘Knock’…. I first sold a story to Analog in 1955, 68 years ago. That doesn’t quite equal Jack Williamson’s record of longevity – he sold a serial to them when he was in his nineties, 74

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People & Publishing Roundup, July 2023

MILESTONES

Author CHARLES YU has joined the Board of Directors for the National Book Foundation.

AWARDS

CATRIONA WARD’s Sundial (Macmillan) won Best Hardcover Novel in the Thriller Awards, presented by the International Thriller Writers and announced June 3, 2023 at ThrillerFest XVIII in New York City.

AYANNA LLOYD BANWO’s When We Were Birds (Hamish Hamilton) won the £2,500 Best First Novel Award from the Au­thors’ Club, open to ...Read More

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Apex Staff Changes

Apex Magazine has announced that Lesley Conner is now editor-in-chief, and Rebecca Treasure is now managing editor.

Conner was previously co-editor-in-chief alongside publisher Jason Sizemore. Sizemore is “taking a step back from these roles in order to focus on growing Apex as a business in the coming years.”

Treasure will continue her role as flash fiction editor in addition to her new position.

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2023 SF&F Hall of Fame Inductees

The Museum of Pop Culture (MoPOP) announced the 2023 inductees to the Science Fiction and Fantasy Hall of Fame: N.K. Jemisin and John Carpenter were honored as Creators, while Dune by Frank Herbert and Rocky Horror Picture Show and were honored as Creations. Inductees are added to the SF&F Hall of Fame display in the museum.

The Science Fiction Hall of Fame was founded in 1996 and then relocated from ...Read More

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People & Publishing Roundup, June 2023

MILESTONES

OGHENECHOVWE DONALD EKPEKI has been appointed vir­tual conference coordinator for the International Association of the Fantastic in the Arts.

EUGEN BACON is now rep­resented by Jennie Goloboy of Donald Maass Literary Agency.

JONNY NEXUS is now repre­sented by the John Jarrold Literary Agency.

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DEBORAH P KOLODJI has been awarded the President’s Lifetime Service Award, given by the Science Fiction and Fantasy Poetry Association for “service throughout the years, ...Read More

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People & Publishing Roundup, May 2023

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SALMAN RUSHDIE will re­ceive a Hay Festival Medal for Prose for “exceptional work” as one of four “groundbreaking sto­rytellers” during the Hay Festival event in Hay-on-Wye, Wales, to be held May 25 – June 4, 2023.

ARLEY SORG received the fourth annual Space Cowboy Award, for “someone whose work has helped to enhance and support our ever growing and changing field,” administered by Space Cowboy Books in Joshua Tree ...Read More

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Exhibit Honors Toni Morrison

Princeton University is currently hosting “Toni Morrison: Sites of Memory”, an exhibit featuring diary entries, letters, drafts of novels, and preserved pages rescued after Morrison’s house burned down in 1993. The exhibition “will be the center of a community-wide exploration of how Morrison’s archive continues to influence the past, present, and future.”

The exhibition is currently active at the Firestone Library, and will remain open until June 4, 2023. Accompanying ...Read More

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People & Publishing Roundup, April 2023

MILESTONES

BONNIE JO STUFFLEBEAM is now represented by Scribe Agency.

 

AWARDS

LING MA’s Bliss Montage (Farrar, Straus, Giroux) won the Story Prize, “honoring the author of an outstanding collection of short fiction,” presented March 15, 2023. The prize includes $20,000 and an engraved silver bowl.

 

BOOKS SOLD

The late TERRY PRATCHETT’s estate sold collection A Stroke of the Pen: The Lost Stories to Transworld for six ...Read More

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People & Publishing Roundup, March 2023

MILESTONES

GREGORY BENFORD, 82, had a stroke on December 22, 2022. While his condition is serious, he has moved from the hospital to a rehabilitation center, and is reportedly recovering well.

 

AWARDS

WALTER MOSLEY, 71, won the 2023 Diamond Dagger Award, presented by the Crime Writers’ Association. The award is the highest honor offered by the group, and ‘‘recognises authors whose crime writing careers have been marked ...Read More

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People & Publishing Roundup, February 2023

MILESTONES

LAIRD BARRON was hospi­talized in early January 2023 with respiratory problems and other medical issues. Mike Davis has organized a crowdfunding cam­paign as the author lacks health insurance. Davis says, ‘‘Laird is a private person and I’m trying to convey just how serious this is without revealing too much per­sonal information. Make no mis­take: This is very serious, and potentially life-threatening. For more: <www.gofundme.com/f/laird-barron-hospital-costs-medication-costs>.

Author and Locus reviewer PAUL

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Android Jones Fire

Artist Andrew Jones (AKA Android Jones) suffered a tragedy when his studio in Colorado burned down on January 18, 2023. Jones said,

My father designed and built this barn with his hands. I grew up in this barn. Nearly every material thing I cared about was inside. Decades of sketchbooks, all my archived originals, drawings and paintings, all of my art materials, terabytes of over 20 years of digital art, ...Read More

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People & Publishing Roundup, January 2023

MILESTONES

ROBIN MCKINLEY is the 39th recipient of the Damon Knight Me­morial SFWA Grand Master Award. Her award will be presented during the SFWA Nebu­la Conference, to be held May 12–14, 2023 at the Sheraton Park Hotel at the Anaheim Resort in Anaheim, CA.

 

AWARDS

Tordotcom editor RUOXI CHEN won the $2,500 Superstar prize at Publishers Weekly’s an­nual Star Watch awards gala, held November 15, 2022 in New York ...Read More

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Giger And Sorayama Exhibition

NANZUKA is working with COEXIST and UCCA Lab to host “H.R. Giger X Sorayama: Approaching” from December 25, 2022 – March 24, 2023. The exhibition features 45 works from H.R. Giger and Hajime Sorayama, and is divided into “Surrealistic Explorations, Fear, and Fantasy”, “The Eve of Tomorrow, Between the Biological and the Mechanical”, and “Seeds of Pop Culture.”

The exhibition will be on view at UCCA Lab in Beijing. For ...Read More

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Obama’s Top Books of 2022

President Barack Obama has announced a 13-title list of favorite books of 2022. Titles and authors of genre interest include:

  • The School for Good Mothers, Jessamine Chan (Simon and Schuster)
  • The Candy House, Jennifer Egan (Scribner)
  • Sea of Tranquility, Emily St. John Mandel (Knopf)
  • Liberation Day, George Saunders (Random House)
  • The Furrows, Namwali Serpell (Hogarth)

President Obama announced the full list via Twitter, along with

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Huntington Library Acquires Pynchon Papers

The Huntington Library in San Marino CA announced that they have acquired the papers of Thomas Pynchon. The collection filled 48 boxes: “70 linear feet of materials created between the late 1950s and the 2020s — including typescripts and drafts of each of his novels, handwritten notes, correspondence, and research.” Pynchon’s papers were collected and represented by his son, Jackson Pynchon. The materials are being processed and will be available ...Read More

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People & Publishing Roundup, December 2022

MILESTONES

SF writers J. DIANNE DOT­SON & GARETH L. POWELL were married November 5, 2022 in a small ceremony held in Los Angeles CA. Dotson designed her wedding dress herself: “I chose red as it is my favorite color and it honors Gareth being half-Welsh, given the colors of the Welsh flag.”

ALICIA WANSTALL-BURKE is now represented by the John Jarrold Literary Agency.

 

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People & Publishing Roundup, November 2022

MILESTONES

JEFF VANDERMEER’s liter­ary interests are now represented by Joe Veltre of the Gersh Agency, who was already his film and TV agent. VanderMeer has also joined the Gersh Speakers Bureau as a client. Alex Kohner of Yorn Levine provides additional representation as VanderMeer’s entertainment at­torney.

DEREK KÜNSKEN is step­ping down as programming co-chair of Can*Con, Ottawa’s liter­ary SF/F conference, after 11 years working on the conference. Co-chair MARIE

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People & Publishing Roundup, October 2022

MILESTONES

MARYANN HARRIS, artist, musician, and wife of Charles de Lint, became ill on September 6, 2021 with encephalitis, and was eventually diagnosed with the rare, tick-borne Powassan virus. She spent eight months in intensive care before being transferred to a com­plex care facility, where she is on a ventilator and almost entirely para­lyzed. Fundraising efforts are un­derway to defray the considerable costs; details, and updates on her condition,

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People & Publishing Roundup, September 2022

MILESTONES

WENDY N. WAGNER is now represented via Lane Heymont of The Tobias Agency.

AWARDS

IDZA LUHUMYO’s “Five Years Next Sunday”(Disruption) won the £10,000 Caine Prize for African Writing, “awarded for a short story via an African writer published in English,”presented July 18, 2022 at the Victoria and Albert Museum in London.

MONICA BYRNE’s The Actu­al Star (Harper Voyager) won the 2022 Manly Wade Wellman Award, ...Read More

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People & Publishing Roundup, August 2022

MILESTONES

RUDY RUCKER sold his liter­ary archive to the Special Collec­tions of the UCR Library at UC Riverside. “The Rudy Rucker Ar­chive includes marked-up drafts of forty books, story drafts, letters, videos, audio, scientific papers, rare ’zines, and email.” Henry Wessells of James Cummins Bookseller ne­gotiated the deal with Cherry Wil­liams and Andrew Lippert of UCR.

AWARDS

JESMYN WARD will receive the 2022 Library of Congress Prize for American Fiction ...Read More

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People & Publishing Roundup, July 2022

AWARDS

QUENTIN BLAKE, SALMAN RUSHDIE, and MARINA WARNER all received the High Award Companion of Honour dis­tinction in the Queen’s Birthday Honours. IAN RANKIN received the Knights Bachelor distinction, while JOANNE HARRIS and MICHAEL FOREMAN received the Officer of the Order of the Brit­ish Empire distinction for services to literature. JAMES DAUNT, head of Waterstones in the UK and CEO of Barnes & Noble in the US, received ...Read More

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People & Publishing Roundup, June 2022

MILESTONES

ELSA SJUNNESON is now represented by Larissa Melo Pien­kowski at Jill Grinberg Literary.

RR HAYWOOD is now repre­sented by the John Jarrold Literary Agency.

JOSHUA COHEN’s The Ne­tanyahus (New York Review) won the 2022 Pulitzer Prize in the Fiction category, given for ‘‘distin­guished fiction published in book form during the year by an Ameri­can author, preferably dealing with American life,’’ with its $15,000 prize.

 

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People & Publishing Roundup, May 2022

MILESTONES

Horror author JOHN SKIPP, 64, has announced his retirement from writing and publishing fiction; his final title is col­lection Don’t Push the Button (Clash Books). Going for­ward he will focus on music and film. He has two new albums, The Antidote to Fear and Cry Me a Rain­bow, out via his own Fungasm Records label. He also wrote, produced, directed, and scored short film Doppelbanger, which premiered ...Read More

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People & Publishing Roundup, April 2022

MILESTONES

JOANNE HARRIS was re-elected as the chair of the Society of Authors board. She ran unop­posed for her second two-year term.

CELIA NERI is now represented by the John Jarrold Literary Agency.

AWARDS

EDGAR RICE BURROUGHS has been awarded a star on the Palm Springs Walk of the Stars, which was founded in 1992 and runs through the commercial district of Palm Springs CA. Burroughs lived in Palm Springs ...Read More

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2022 Guggenheim Fellowships

Authors Jennifer Croft, Brandon Hobson, Ladee Hubbard, and Alexandra Kleeman are among the 2022 Guggenheim Fellows, announced by the John Simon Guggenheim Memorial Foundation. Fellowships were awarded to 180 recipients across 51 fields of study “on the basis of prior achievement and exceptional promise.”

The Foundation was started in 1925 and has awarded grants totaling nearly $400 million. Fellowships are through two annual competitions: one for citizens and permanent residents ...Read More

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