Jeff VanderMeer

Mad props to my wife for going into work in her pajamas, armed with a Totoro, for her presentation at her company’s 2008 kick-off meeting!

One of my favorite booksellers is Ziesing books. Mark & Cindy Ziesing are great people and their print catalog is a reflection of their great taste in books. People lately have been asking me what indie booksellers they should support. Obviously there are a lot of great brick-and-mortar indie booksellers, but for catalogs and online […]

I’ve been stuck over this one section of the Predator novel for the last two weeks, totally unable to figure out what to do. So Ann reads it tonight and says, in essence, “That explosion happens right here, not there. This happens here, not here. And he doesn’t wake up in the morning and that […]

…but would be great in the B-movie version… Suddenly, Maxim spoke up, and would not stop. “We need to get the fuck off of this island. We just need to fucking swim if we have to, to get off of this island. This shit isn’t working. This shit isn’t even fucking real. I can’t believe […]

Just got the word that our New Weird anthology received a starred review from Publishers Weekly.  Here’s the text of the review: The VanderMeers (Best American Fantasy) ably demonstrate the sheer breadth of the “New Weird” fantasy subgenre in this powerful anthology of short fiction and critical essays. Highlights include strong fiction by authors such as […]

A reader sent me this Pred-related cat fun….

Writer: chiles samaniego Weird Tales Story: Time and the Orpheus (Issue #352, Sept/Oct 2008) Writer Bio: When asked to write about himself, chiles samaniego enjoys using lower case letters and the third person; “Easier to make things up about me that way,” he says. As a writer of fictions, he wonders if everything he writes […]

I contributed to their latest Mind Meld. Go check it out.

It’s to that point of deletin’ some final stuff, reshufflin’ and reconfigurin’. Here’s a casualty. I always loved the burning deer stampede in Beautiful Mutants by Deborah Levy, but the stampede in the Pred novel ultimately just didn’t make any sense. I like the little otter-like critter, though. Might airlift him out. Jeff

A few days ago my review of Wellington’s 99 Coffins went up on SciFi Weekly. It’s a fun book–I enjoyed it. JV