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August 2008
The Blood Opera pours on A 4th novel? OK, not quite yet, but a definite probable in the not so far off future - more when I have it. Hello! I have been working, as ever, very hard, this year mostly on short stories and novellas, and more of all that in a moment. I wanted to tell you something about the Convention I attended as one of the GoH's, in March. This was, of course, Orbital. Held at the Radisson Edwardian Hotel, Heathrow, it was a tremendously exciting and fast-paced affair, which despite its size and full programme, never lost its human spirit (despite, naturally, the occasional Alien or Fantasy Being glamorously encountered here and there.) Both I and my partner, John Kaiine, enjoyed the whole event enormously, and would like to thank the organizers and amazing army of people who were so courteous and helpful, not to mention brilliant. I was awarded a personal I hesitate to say, Gofer who was not only kind and efficient, but vastly intelligent, plus looking as if she had just stepped out of the Scarabae Family at its most youthful and lovely stage! Thank you again, Nadia! While elegant Guilia was endlessly patient and splendid. I could mention so many persons here that I think I had better just say a very enthusiastic joint THANK YOU, BLESSINGS UPON YOU, to all committee members with whom we had dealings. And thank you also to any of you who came along. I met some very nice people all round. The hotel itself was in addition great fun, with curiosities and beasts of bronze dotted about, imaginative dιcor and definitely its own air of the fantastic. I found everything I was involved in interesting, and was only sorry one panel I was on, though equally pleasant, clashed with the performance of Mitch Benn in an adjoining chamber. (I confess I did stay to see a single song).
I did mean to get all this up on site months ago, but life interrupts, do what we will. Anyway: here be pictures ~
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Meanwhile, here are some of the things about to escape from various publishers in the near future, plus a few already at large (please excuse any doubling up here, a lot of things have been re-scheduled or delayed, so some previous announcements are still outstanding.) Novellas USA The War That Winter Is in a new dragon antho edited by Gardner Dozois. The Puma's Daughter in a new antho ed. Ellen Datlow. My Life As A Swan available now in a new Science Fiction Book Club of America antho, The Book of Wizards ed. Marvin Kaye. However, I was never sent proofs for this nor any actual copies, so if there are any typos or mistakes, it's the Book Club's fault, not mine, or Marvin's. Strindberg's Ghost Sonata, in Marvin Kaye's other antho, The Ghost Quartet, should be at last appearing in September. Ditto on proofs with this one. Short stories The Hill a long short iss out in The Mammoth Book of Monsters ed. Stephen Jones, (UK) and due for a reprint in an antho from Ellen Datlow. USA Between Ourselves, a story written with Rosemary Hawley Jarman, should have been out in June from HPLovecraft Magazine Sea Warg is soon out in a new werewolf antho ed. Darrell Schweitzer. Under Fog (The Wreckers) Newcon Press, ed. Ian Whates. Dead Yellow in Nature magazine. Ed. Henry Gee. Calinen is in Mallorn ( The Tolkien Magazine). And in the last current edition of Scheherazade, there is The Tale Of The Tailor's Tail. The Beautiful And The Damned By F.Scott Fitzgerald Asimovββ's Magazine. The Snake a Flat Earth story Realms of Fantasy. The Heart Of Ice Weird Tales, in which edition I was thrilled to be included in the 85 Weirdest Storytellers! Rubbing shoulders with such legends as Angela Carter, Lon Chaney SR, Edward Gorey, Kafka! And Mervyn Peake!!!!! Both I and John Kaiine will have short stories in Jeff Van Der Meer's charity antho, Last Drink Bird Head coming in late 2008. SF Book Club have now released The Secret Books Of Paradys The Complete Cycle. The first volume of the most recent collection of mine, Tempting the Gods, should be out this month from Wildside Press. USA. (Second Vol ~ Hunting the Shadows, to follow shortly thereafter ) Last and very much not least, I have a story in a USA tribute antho to Jack Vance's genius Songs of the Dying Earth, editors Gardner Dozois and George RR Martin. I've loved doing all these tales, but this one Evillo the Uncunning - has a special pleasure for me, as I've been one of Vance's most rabid fans since the 1970's. A short novel for the YA market, Indigara, is out from Firebird in the USA. A short story Table Manners soon due iin a YA vampire antho, ed. Leah Wilson USA. Additionally I have stories out in two anthos from Norilana Books USA, (one with a v-e-r-y long title Lace-Maker, Blade-Taker, Grave-Breaker, Priest) in this summer's Lace and Blade ed. Deborah J. Ross and also one to come in next year's edition (to be published on Valentine's Day!) Also now out is The Woman in Clockwork Phoenix, ed. Mike Allen. On Norilana too they have honored me with my own imprint!!! Under this banner TaLeKa - they will be reprinting the whole of the Flat Earth series Night's Master, Death's Master, Delusion's Master, Delirium's Mistress, Night's Sorceries " plus two new volumes The Earth Is Flat and Earth's Master in an ongoing progression starting in 2009. These books will have cover art and design by John Kaiine, and feature my own artwork. Publisher-Editor Vera Nazarian and I are also in discussion on reprinting other titles, and some of my unpublished more obscure work, but more on this as and when. Current Works ~ Having done a lot of research for my proposed dragon novel, The Firesmith, I broke off to write something else now and then this kind of chaotic behaviour ooccurs, (for example, the short novel Sabella published 1980 was written in the middle of Day By Night. And The Silver Metal Lover published 1981 in the midst of my retelling of Romeo And Juliet, Sung In Shadow.) This new rogue goes only by initials, all I am prepared to reveal at this point ATC OTC. But I can admit it is weird, a combination of SF and dark fantasy, plus creepy, crazy and erotic. Here too, more when and if. One last item. I have an almost finished Lesbian/gay and hetero collection, which I and two alter egos (if they are) Esther Garber and her brother, Judas, have been working on for some while. I still have to write the last story, and then, since there is some interest in the MS, hand it over to a publisher. Which brings me to a further matter. As you may recall, I had some books published by the small press Egerton House, but unfortunately they went out of business. Because this arrangement was print on demand, any purchase of these books is now simply vanishing into a black hole at least as far as their authors, and I presume the Egerton publishers themselves, are concerned. Since I'm hoping to get the whole herd republished at some point, I myself now regard the Egerton volumes as out of print. If you do want to buy one via Amazon in the interim, that is OK by me, but now you know, neither statements nor royalties will come to me. Lastly, for now, and since I've mentioned the novel of The Silver Metal Lover, despite the long delay, I thought I should pass on this update to you. Randal Kleiser (director of such astonishing and lyrical movies as Flight of the Navigator and The Blue Lagoon, the astounding Grease and White Fang not to mention the more recent Lovewrecked, with Chris Carmack and Amanda Bynes) has recently told me that he is still hopeful of a production of the film. He has remained loyal to the idea of my novel as a movie for some while, which in itself has been a source of great pleasure and hope for me. That somebody who has made so many fascinating and appealing movies has wanted and still wants to make one ne from a novel of mine is one of those special gifts I treasure. Herewith then, a pre-production image, with handsome Chris Carmack modeling a possible future aspect of Silver.
Please note the reflective quality of the skin - and yes, I know Silver was auburn, but the silvery hair accentuates, in this instance, the truly metallic nature of what Silver was More when I have it. Finally a couple of last pictures:
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January 2008
Hello everyone - a belated message from Tanith Lee ( who's she? We just do vaguely remember this was her web site)...
Very cluttered year. I will put on more very soon. But in the mean time have a very Happy New Year!
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One of the several highlights for me was the reading I gave of my short story Israbel. Though using a mike, (which I prefer) the atmosphere in the room was so charged with concentration it seemed to become dynamic. While at the front a young woman quietly stitched away at something beautiful. This gave me, at least, a wonderful sense of my being the matriarch story-teller of the tribe. I've never experienced anything quite like this outside the actual theatre. So another thank you to all of you who were there and helped make this something so special for selfish me. 
