Ellen Datlow interview about her Horror, fantasy, and sci-fi book “Edited By” (Subterranean, 2020) youtube
The youtube version of my interview with Ellen Datlow about her Horror, fantasy, and sci-fi book “Edited By” (Subterranean, 2020)
Ellen Datlow interview about her Horror, fantasy, and sci-fi book “Edited By” (Subterranean, 2020)
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Ellen Datlow interview about her Horror, fantasy, and sci-fi book “Edited By”
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Interview Summary
Ellen Datlow has been editing horror, fantasy, and science fiction short stories and novellas for over forty years. She’s won numerous awards and accolades for her work and has edited numerous best of anthologies along with short stories for magazine and book publishers. Subterranean Press is releasing a book on some of the best stories she’s edited. I spoke to Ellen about her work as an editor, about genre fiction, and about the business in general.
0:32: Ellen talks about how she got into editing and editing anthologies.
(2:25: I think Ellen meant 1979 not 1989)
4:39 – Ellen talks about her work at OMNI and then how she got into anthologies.
8:32 – Ellen talks about hating doing writing herself.
11:29 – Ellen talks about how she chooses stories.
13:05 – Ellen talks about how she approaches stories that might need extensive edits and rewrites.
15:49 – Ellen talks about the tone and style of writing.
17:28 – Ellen talks about the time period “Edited by” covers and the genres included. She discusses her anthology work.
20:30 – Ellen talks about the difficulties of getting her pitches accepted.
23:46 – Ellen talks about how she manages an anthology project and deals with the writers in the anthology.
26:37 – Ellen talks about how she deals with anthology publishers when pitching an idea.
27:22 – Ellen talks about trends in writing.
31:29 – Ellen says that mostly all she gets to read are the things she edits. She also talks about how she is able to read so much.
33:05 – Ellen talks about some of what she is reading.
34:58 – Ellen talks about the length of stories she prefers. She talks about flash fiction past and present.
37:46 – Ellen talks about reading stories out loud. She talks about punctuation and commas.
39:24 – Ellen talks about how her editing style has changed over the years.
40:37 – Ellen talks about computer editing and track changes.
42:33 – Ellen talks about stories she has edited in the past.
46:46 – Ellen talks what she looks for in horror stories.
48:27 – Ellen talks about the publishing industry.
49:40 – Ellen talks about e-books.
50:21 – Ellen talks about editing works with art elements.
58:53 – Ellen talks about sci-fi horror.
1:01:16 – Ellen can be found on facebook and twitter @ellendatlow.
Links of interest
https://subterraneanpress.com/news/announcing-edited-by-ellen-datlow/
https://www.facebook.com/EllenDatlow
https://twitter.com/EllenDatlow
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Guests: Ellen Datlow
Host: Cris Alvarez
Tags: Books, audio interviews, editor, podcast, fantasy, science fiction, horror, fiction, award, hugo award, Subterranean,
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Speculative Fiction anthology – “New Suns” (Solaris, 2019) – Nisi Shawl interview
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Nisi Shawl has written and edited speculative fiction for years and recently won the 2020 Locus Award for best anthology for her edited work New Suns. We spoke about the book, winning the award, the difficulties non-white authors face in the publishing industry, and about writing and editing in general.
0:42 – Nisi talks about how she felt about winning the 2020 Locus award for best anthology.
1:30 – Nisi talks about how the anthology was developed.
2:42 – Nisi talks about how she chose the stories she used in the anthology.
4:20 – Nisi talks about the process of editing the anthology.
5:45 – Nisi talks about how adult the material is in the anthology.
7:00 – Nisi talks about the various times of stories found in the anthology.
9:34 – Nisi talks about writing by non-white authors.
11:25 – Nisi talks about publishing support for non-white authors.
12:55 – Nisi talks about ways within which the industry can support non-white authors.
16:08 – Nisi talks about gender issues within publishing.
17:48 – Nisi talks about other kinds of feedback within the publishing industry.
20:59 – Nisi talks about social media in pushing change.
22:42 – Nisi talks about the nationalities of the authors in the book.
25:08 – Nisi talks about the lengths of the stories in the anthology.
26:26 – Nisi talks about the works that inspire her and works she enjoys.
28:47 – Nisi talks about her love of Outlander. She also gets into the importance of politics within the show.
34:35 – Nisi talks how she approaches the editing process.
37:38 – Nisi talks about she approaches giving editorial changes.
38:13 – Nisi talks about other anthologies she’s edited.
40:04 – Nisi talks about her editing work over time.
40:59 – Nisi talks about her approach to writing.
42:01 – Nisi talks about writer and editing interactions.
44:04 – Nisi talks about self-publishing.
46:10 – Nisi talks about past jobs she had apart from writing and editing.
47:14 – Nisi talks her desire to end world hunger.
49:07 – Nisi talks about how she got LeVar Burton to write the introduction for New Suns.
51:21 – Nisi talks about other non-white authors who should have as much notice as Octavia Butler such as Samuel Delaney and Charles Saunders.
53:44 – Nisi can be found at nisishawl.com.
Links of interest
https://www.simonandschuster.com/books/New-Suns/Nisi-Shawl/9781781085783
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Guests: Nisi Shawl
Host: Cris Alvarez
Tags: science fiction, fantasy, writer, editor, anthology, fiction, tags: anthology, post-apocalyptic, future, historical, Octavia Butler, gender, sexuality, flash fiction, Everfair, Middlemarch, Outlander, glaucoma, Battlestar Galactica, time traveler, Scotland, British Empire, politics, ursula Le Guin, world hunger, twilight zone, Levar Burton, Library of America, Samuel Delaney, Charles Saunders, Gloria Naylor
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