tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-72723012107316400892011-12-20T22:17:25.622-05:00News from Annette Curtis KlauseAnnettenoreply@blogger.comBlogger421100tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-7272301210731640089.post-77711261985509321132011-11-30T18:20:00.007-05:002011-11-30T19:25:36.069-05:00

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There is a book signing scheduled for Welcome to Bordertown on Thursday, June 9 at Books of Wonder in New York City from 6 p.m. to 8 p.m. I will be there, as will Holly Black, Cory Doctorow, Ellen Kushner, Delia Sherman, Alaya Dawn Johnson.For more information go to then Books of Wonder Events & Happenings page. The Bordertown event isn't clickable as I write this, but maybe it will be soon. You

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Yay!Here are today's posts celebrating Welcome to Bordertown:Cabinet des FéesHolly Black's BlogTerri Windling's BlogTim Pratt's post on Tor.com<!-- /* Font Definitions */ @font-face {font-family:Cambria; panose-1:2 4 5 3 5 4 6 3 2 4; mso-font-charset:0; mso-generic-font-family:auto; mso-font-pitch:variable; mso-font-signature:3 0 0 0 1 0;} /* Style Definitions */ p.MsoNormal, li.MsoNormal

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Win this pendant, fashioned by artist Mia Nutick, on Christopher Barzak's blog by answering a simple question: How would you get to Bordertown?Do your research here.Christopher's story in Welcome to Bordertown is called "We Do Not Come in Peace."

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The Welcome to Bordertown trailer is now up on io9.

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Bordertown wallpaper is now available on the official Bordertown series website. The designs are by Tara O'Shea.If you want to sample one of the tales in Welcome to Bordertown, Cory Doctorow's story, "Shannon's Law", is now posted on Tor.com. You can also download it as a podcast from Escape Pod. It's Read by Mur Lafferty.The anthology comes out this month!

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There is now an official BORDERTOWN SERIES WEBSITE. Check it out for information about the authors, the city, the news, the reviews, the art, the other books in the series, etc. You can even read three of the original stories from anthologies now out of print. According to Ellen Kushner, "there are plans for contests & blogposts & all manner of delights coming up in the next few weeks . . ."

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This past year has been a great one for foreign editions. I thought I'd share a few covers here.Swedish B&CTurkish Silver KissItalian B&CGerman B&CA Croatian edition is in the works. That should be interesting.

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Ellen Kushner has posted a delightfully annotated review of Welcome to Bordertown on her blog. Yay! It says there is "no weak link." Whew! It would be awful if my story was a weak link.

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Ellen Kushner kindly shared pics of her workspace at the Random House offices where she was working on the galleys of Welcome to Bordertown.

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Advance reading copies were handed out to a lucky few at the World Fantasy Convention and this is the first response I've seen.YAY! I can't wait to get my copy.

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Here's the Spanish language edition of Blood and Chocolate.

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I had a really good time with the Smith girls who are all smart and fabulous and know how to wear costumes. It was wonderful to hang out with authors Jane Yolen, Tamora Pierce, Bruce Coville, Patricia Briggs, Catherynne Valente and Phoebe Wray of Broad Universe, and talk about demon lovers, xenobiology, alien bananas, and cats. Editor Anne Sowards was charming and answered many questions about

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The Silver Kiss is available as a recorded book for the very first time.

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I'll be at ConBust again in March. That's the annual science fiction convention at Smith College in Northampton, Massachusetts. This year it goes from March 26 through March 28. There are some great guests, including Tamora Pierce and Jane Yolen. See you there?"What sets ConBust apart from most other sci-fi, fantasy, anime, and/or gaming conventions is its focus on the female members of the

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I am signing a contract for Turkish editions of Blood and Chocolate and The Silver Kiss. Who would have ever guessed?That's Turkish Delight up top in case you didn't know. It always reminds me of The Lion, the Witch and the Wardrobe. I borrowed the picture from The Tum Tum Tree which has an amusing short post on making this candy.The country Turkey looks like this:There's going to be a German

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I’ve been made aware that there are a number of websites out there that are selling old editions of The Silver Kiss but say the book contains the two new stories. Only the new edition, published this year, has the two stories. Sometimes a site even has the new book cover displayed. I don’t know how I can stop this--I could go crazy trying to correct every mistake on the Web--but I just wanted

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More information on Deborah Noyes' page and at Candlewick Press.

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I'll be at the American Library Association annual conference in Chicago next weekend, so if you are there, I hope I see you. I'll be the one running around waving my copies of Sideshow and the new edition of The Silver Kiss with BONUS SHORT STORIES. *grin*I'll be attending the Margaret Edwards Award lunch on Saturday and the Printz Awards on Monday night. You might also catch me sneaking in

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There wasNew edition coming in July, with two bonus short stories about Simon and Zoë, one of which has never been published before.

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I'll be at ConBust this weekend.

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ConBust is a Science Fiction convention at Smith College in Northampton, Massachusetts. I'll be there on Friday, March 27 and Saturday March 28."What sets ConBust apart from most other sci-fi, fantasy, anime, and/or gaming conventions is its focus on the female members of the participating community. While the various realms of geekdom remain stereotypically male-dominated, ConBust is held to

Annettenoreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-7272301210731640089.post-15986764451543331472009-01-19T11:21:00.007-05:002009-01-19T11:31:30.598-05:00

I'd like to share the cover of an anthology from Candlewick Press that I will have a story published in next July. The collection is called Sideshow: Ten Original Tales of Freaks, Illusionists, and Other Matters Odd and Magical, and my story is entitled "The Mummy's Daughter."As you can see, I'm in good company.

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I'll be speaking at the Silver Spring Book Fest on Saturday, October 25th. My presentation will be at 2 p.m. at the Silver Spring Library in Silver Spring Maryland. (Can I squeeze Silver Spring in one more time? LOL)

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YA Author's Cafe today. Come read what I have to say and leave a comment there.

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I'll be participating in a chat on Friday, October 17--6 p.m. PST, 9 p.m. EST On the Readergirlz MySpace forum.

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Well, the fact that Craig Robertson commented on my last post and tipped me off to a great movie reminded me to get my butt in gear and tell you about the wonderful song he sent me a few weeks ago called "Werewolf Country". It will be on his next CD due out in the summer of 2009. He composed the song after his 12 year-old daughter convinced him to read Blood and Chocolate. I was blown away

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One of the many things that inspired me to write Freaks: Alive, on the Inside! was the 1933 movie Freaks directed by Tod Browning. I've just found the whole movie on line! Now you can see it.[I had to remove this video because the link didn't work anymore and attempts to link to a non-existent movie were crashing browsers. Oh, well]I found it on the Internet Archive thanks to Boing Boing.

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Read the review HEREThis is a fun interview. I'm always happy to be asked about my writing.Thanks Reviewer X!

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Well, I'm all set to go to the American Library Association annual conference in Anaheim, California. I'll be wearing two hats: one as author and the other as librarian. I'll be taking advantage of the educational programming as well as wandering around the exhibits looking at all the new books. I expect I'll be there for the Newbery and Caldecott speeches and I'm hoping to attend the Prinz

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Usually I am the only family member who has her name in a book, but not this month.A while back now, my husband encouraged me to enter our three-legged Siamese cat in a Web competition run by Mutts comics. People were asked to submit the rescue stories of their pets to be considered for inclusion in a collection of Shelter Stories by cartoonist Patrick McDonnell. Well, MUTTS Shelter Stories:

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The back of my front door:Okay, so I ran out of space on the refrigerator.You have to click on the picture for a bigger version so you can read the poem I made without squinting.

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In addition to being an ALA Best Book for Young Adults and a Junior Library Guild pick, The Restless Dead is a New York Public Library Book for the Teen Age. Woohoo!

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Hi!I'll be one of 120 authors participating in the Pulse Blogfest put on by Simon & Schuster between March 14 and March 27. Each day authors will answer a question selected from those submitted by teen readers, and there will be a place for you to make comments. All the authors will not answer all the question, but there should be quite a few posting every day at the Blogfest site. Some

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I'm going to try and post more often honestly.Anyway, this March I'll be a guest at ConBust the annual science fiction/fantasy convention at Smith College in Northampton, Massachusetts. The convention runs from March 28 to March 30. I hope you'll come to see me there.

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The September School Library Journal has a lovely review of my story in The Restless Dead. Here's the part I liked best:The third story, "Kissing Dead Boys," however, is classic Annette Curtis Klause and it alone may be worth the price of the book. Klause takes the tired-sexy-vampire and vampire-hunter conventions and makes them fresh in just 14 pages.Woohoo! Finally! Much better than the

Annettenoreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-7272301210731640089.post-24683426659284676612007-08-27T20:54:00.001-04:002008-09-06T14:44:09.922-04:00

I've signed a contract for a movie of The Silver Kiss. It's likely to be a TV movie if it ever gets made. (These things are always iffy.) I should be jaded after my Blood and Chocolate experience, but who knows--maybe next time someone will get it right.

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My story “Kissing Dead Boys” is now out in an anthology called The Restless Dead from Candlewick Press and edited by Deborah Noyes. (ISBN: 978-0763629069) There are ten stories in the collection and I’m in great company. Other authors include Holly Black, Kelly Link, M.T. Anderson, and Libba Bray.

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