The next Fantastic Fiction at KGB reading series get together, hosted by Ellen Datlow and Matthew Kressel, will present Gemma Files, an award-winning horror writer with a twenty-year publication history whose short fiction and poetry has been published in magazines, anthologies and collections, as well as
being adapted for television. She is also the author of A Book of Tongues and A Rope of Thorns, Volumes One and Two in the Hexslinger Series and is currently finishing off A Tree of Bones, which will be Hexslinger Volume Three.

Also reading will be Ekaterina Sedia, the author of The Secret History of Moscow, The Alchemy of Stone, The House of Discarded Dreams, and Heart of Iron. She is also edited several anthologies, including the World Fantasy Award winner Paper Cities. Her short stories have appeared in a number of venues.

It’s all happening on Wednesday December 21, 7pm at KGB Bar, 85 East 4th Street (just off 2nd Ave, upstairs.)

Readings are free.

Ellen Datlow has also posted photos from the most recent KGB Reading with Jack Womack and Claude Lalumière here: Fantastic Fiction November 16th

T. Lyn Fletcher, the author of the upcoming supernatural book series Twisted and Turned, has been invited to participate in the fall EyeCon Celebrity Autograph Convention to be held in Atlanta, Georgia, October 28-30.

EyeCon Celebrity Autograph Conventions, best known for conventions geared towards the shows True Blood and Supernatural series and the Twilight movies, added a new show and location in March of this year: the EyeCon Vampire Diaries Convention in Atlanta, spotlighting the stars of the CW Network’s TV series that’s filmed in Atlanta.

Fletcher attended the March event and will use the October convention to continue to promote her upcoming book series.

“The reception I received in March was exciting and so encouraging,” she said. “I was thrilled to hear so many people say that they can’t wait for my books to come out. I can’t wait to meet more future readers during the fall convention.”

Twisted and Turned is “a true love story of supernatural proportions,” Fletcher says. It begins with an archangel in heaven who falls so deeply in love with a human soul that she arranges to be born on earth in the same place where this soul will be born. The soul actually becomes twins – stunningly handsome twin vampires. Yet the archangel is destined to find and fall in love with one of the twins – even though her natural instinct is to destroy demons. She even bears children from this unlikely union.

“The archangel/vampire connection seems to really intrigue readers of the genre,” Fletcher said.

The EyeCon weekend will includes panel discussions, celebrity Q&A events, photo op and autograph sessions with the cast of The Vampire Diaries, a Sixties style Dance Party and Banquet with the Stars, and a Halloween Party. The event will be held at the Sheraton Atlanta Hotel on Courtland Street.

Here are a couple more stops on Stephen King’s book tour for 11/22/63:

November 10th, Dallas, TX

King will be appearing at The Majestic Theatre, 1925 Elm Street, Dallas, TX in an on-stage conversation. This is a charity benefit for The Sixth Floor Museum at Dealey Plaza whose staff was instrumental in assisting Stephen with his research while writing 11/22/63. Tickets will go on-sale on Wednesday, October 5 at 9:00 a.m CT.

November 7th, – Boston, MA

King will be appearing at the JFK Library, Boston, MA, to do a reading and on-stage conversation from 1:30-2:30 PM. All forums are free and open to the public. To make a reservation, call 617-514-1643 or go to their site. Seating is on a first come, first served basis. Once the main hall is full, seating is in an overflow theater where the forum is streamed live. Doors to the main hall open one hour before the program begins.

The next Fantastic Fiction at KGB reading series get together, hosted by Ellen Datlow and Matthew Kressel, will present Holly Black, the bestselling author of several novels, including Valiant, winner of the Andre Norton Award for Excellence in Young Adult Literature. Her most recent novels are White Cat and Red Glove of the Curseworkers series, and the third in the series Black Heart, will be out in 2012. Holly’s short fiction has appeared in numerous anthologies and is collected in Poison Eaters and Other Stories. In addition, Holly has co-edited three anthologies and is working on the third volume of her graphic novel series The Good Neighbors.

Also reading will be Lauren McLaughlin, a former screenwriter whose short fiction has appeared in Salon.com, Interzone, Sybil’s Garage, and Year’s Best SF. Her first novel, Cycler, based on her own screen adaptation is in development and the sequel, (Re)Cycler, was nominated for the American Library Association’s Rainbow List for LGBT fiction. Her latest novel, the dystopian YA thriller, Scored, has been described as a “terrifyingly realistic.”

It’s all happening on Wednesday October 19th, 7pm at KGB Bar, 85 East 4th Street (just off 2nd Ave, upstairs.)

Readings are free.

For those you missed this month’s reading, Ellen Datlow has posted some photos of the event online. Catch them here: KGB September 21

The next Fantastic Fiction at KGB reading series, hosted by Ellen Datlow and Matthew Kressel, will present Michael Swanwick, one of the most acclaimed and prolific science fiction and fantasy writers of his generation. Swanwick has received a Hugo Award for fiction in an unprecedented five out of six years and has been honored with the Nebula, Theodore Sturgeon, and World Fantasy Awards. His latest novel is Dancing With Bears, a post-Utopian adventure featuring confidence artists Darger and Surplus, published recently by Night Shade Books.

Also reading will be Andy Duncan. His new collection, The Pottawatomie Giant and Other Stories, will be out this fall from PS Publishing. His story “Slow as a Bullet” leads Jonathan Strahan’s Eclipse Four anthology, and “On 20468 Petercook” is forthcoming at Tor.com. Duncan is a winner of two World Fantasy Awards and the Theodore Sturgeon Memorial Award for best science-fiction story of the year.

It’s all happening on Wednesday September 21st, 7pm, at KGB Bar, 85 East 4th Street (just off 2nd Ave, upstairs.)

The next Fantastic Fiction at KGB reading series get together, hosted by Ellen Datlow and Matthew Kressel, will present Katherine Vaz. Vaz has been a Fellow in Fiction at Harvard University and has published two novels, Saudade and Mariana, translated into six languages and selected by the Library of Congress as one of the Top 30 International Books of 1998. Her collection Fado & Other Stories won the Drue Heinz Literature Prize and Our Lady of the Artichokes (1999) won the Prairie Schooner Book Prize. She’s a Radcliffe Fellow and recipient of a National 2000 Endowment for the Arts Award and has published short fiction in numerous magazines.

Also reading will be Geoff Ryman, whose new collection of short stories Paradise Tales has recently been published by Small Beer. A new long short story “What We Found” is due out soon in Fantasy and Science Fiction. His stories, novels and anthologies have won 14 awards including the Arthur C Clarke Award, the John W Campbell Memorial Award, the Tiptree and the Dick awards. His novels include The Child Garden and Was, both to be re-issued in new editions by Small Beer Press.

It’s all happening on Wednesday July 20th, 7:00pm at KGB Bar, 85 East 4th Street (just off 2nd Ave, upstairs.)

Readings are free.

But that’s not all.

On Friday July 22nd, from 7:00pm – 9:00pm there will be readings from Supernatural Noir at KGB. Hosted by editor Ellen Datlow, the following contributors will be reading from their stories:

Paul G. Tremblay - the author of the novels The Little Sleep and No Sleep Till Wonderland, and his short fiction has been collected in In the Mean Time and Compositions for the Young and Old.

Jeffrey Ford - the author of the novels The Physiognomy, Memoranda, The Beyond, The Portrait of Mrs. Charbuque, The Girl in the Glass, and The Shadow Year. His short fiction has been published in three collections. His fiction has won The World Fantasy Award, The Nebula Award, The Edgar Allan Poe Award, and Gran Prix de l’Imaginaire.

Richard Bowes - Richard Bowes has written five novels, two short fiction collections and fifty short stories. He has won two World Fantasy Awards and the Lambda, International Horror Guild, and Million Writers Awards. His novel-in-progress is Dust Devil: My Life in Speculative Fiction.

Gregory Frost - his latest work is the fantasy duology, Shadowbridge and Lord Tophet. His earlier novels include Fitcher’s Brides, a World Fantasy Award and International Horror Guild Award finalist for Best Novel; Tain, Lyrec, and Nebula-nominated sf work The Pure Cold Light. His short story collection, Attack of the Jazz Giants & Other Stories was called by Publishers Weekly “one of the best fantasy collections of the year.”

John Langan - the author of the novel House of Windows and the collection of stories Mr. Gaunt and Other Uneasy Encounters. His stories have appeared in The Magazine of Fantasy & Science Fiction and Poe: 19 New Tales Inspired by Edgar Allan Poe.

Books will be for sale by Bluestockings

And there’s more…

On Monday, July 18th, from 7:00pm – 9:00pm, New York City’s famed literary establishment, the KGB Bar, will host Dark Visions: An Evening of Horror. Participating in this highly anticipated reading and signing event are:

Chesya Burke has published over forty short stories in various publications including Dark Dreams: Horror and Suspense by Black Writers, Voices From the Other Side, and Whispers in the Night, each published by Kensington Publishing Corp.; the historical, science and speculative fiction magazine, Would That It Were and many more. Several of her articles appeared in the African American National Biography published by Harvard and Oxford University Press and she won the 2004 Twilight Tales award for short fiction. Her short story collection, “Let’s Play White,” debuted earlier this year and was published by APEX Books and was blurbed by Nikki Giovanni and Samuel Delany.

Nicholas Kaufmann is the Bram Stoker Award-, Shirley Jackson Award-, and Thriller Award-nominated author of Chasing the Dragon (ChiZine Publications), General Slocum’s Gold (Burning Effigy Press), Hunt at World’s End (as Gabriel Hunt, Leisure Books), and the collection Walk in Shadows (Prime Books). His fiction has appeared in Cemetery Dance, The Mammoth Book of Best New Erotica 3, City Slab, The Best American Erotica 2007, Playboy and others. His non-fiction has appeared in On Writing Horror (Writers Digest Books), Dark Scribe Magazine, Annabelle Magazine, Fantastic Metropolis, Hellnotes and others.

John Langan is the author of a novel, House of Windows, and a story collection, Mr. Gaunt and Other Uneasy Encounters. His stories have appeared in Ellen Datlow’s Supernatural Noir and Poe, John Joseph Adams’s The Living Dead and Wastelands, and The Magazine of Fantasy & Science Fiction. His next collection, Technicolor and Other Revelations, is forthcoming in 2012. He is an adjunct instructor at SUNY New Paltz, where he teaches courses in Creative Writing and the Gothic. He lives in upstate New York with his wife, son, dog, cats, and now fish.

Livia Llewellyn’s fiction has appeared in Chiaroscuro Magazine, Sybil’s Garage, Subterranean Magazine, PseudoPod, Apex Magazine, Postscripts, Thaumatrope, The Magazine of Bizarro Fiction, The Mammoth Book of Best New Erotica 8, Unspeakable Desires: From the Shadows of the Closet; and is forthcoming in the anthologies All American Horror of the 21st Century, Aklonomicon, and Demons. Her first collection, Engines of Desire: Tales of Love & Other Horrors, was published this year by Lethe Press.

Mobile Libris will be on hand to sell copies of the authors’ books. In addition, there will be a free raffle with one lucky winner receiving a collection of books, magazines, and anthologies containing the authors’ works.

On Saturday, June 11th from 3:00pm – 5:00pm there will be a reading from the vampire anthology, Teeth, edited by Ellen Datlow & Terri Windling, at the Jefferson Market Library (425 Avenue of the Americas, New York, New York). The reading will be followed by discussion.

Ellen Datlow will introduce the following contributors:

• Steve Berman is the author of Vintage, A Ghost Story, finalist for the Andre Norton Award for Young Adult Science Fiction and Fantasy. He is also the publisher of award-winning Lethe Press.
• Holly Black is the bestselling author of the series Tithe, Ironside, and Valiant, and the nourish caper series The Curse Workers, comprised of The White Cat, The Red Glove, and The Black Heart. She is also co-editor of Welcome to Bordertown.
• Jeffrey Ford is the multi-award winning author of several novels, including The Physiognomy, The Girl in the Glass, and The Shadow Year plus three collections of short stories.
• Ellen Kushner is the award winning author of Swordspoint, The Fall of Kings (with Delia Sherman), The Privilege of the Sword, and Thomas the Rhymer. She is also author of the theatrical piece The Klezmer Nutcracker and co-editor of Welcome to Bordertown.
• Delia Sherman is the author of the novels Through a Brazen Mirror and The Porcelain Dove (winner of the Mythopoeic Award), Changeling, and The Magic Mirror of the Mermaid Queen. She is also a founding member of the Interstitial Arts Foundation board.
• Genevieve Valentine’s short fiction has appeared or is forthcoming in Clarkesworld Magazine, Fantasy Magazine, and in the anthologies, Running with the Pack and After. Her first novel, Mechanique: A Tale of the Circus Tresaulti is about a mechanical circus troupe has just been published.

Books will not be sold at the event so bring your own copies — Books of Wonder on 18 W. 18th street will have copies.