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Please contact the Howard Morhaim Literary Agency for information on foreign or reprint rights. You may also query the author at vanderworld at hotmail.com.
Forthcoming: Vanderpalooza (Payseur & Schmidt) and The Surgeon’s Tale and Other Stories (with Cat Rambo).
Secret Life Redux (Select Fire). This trade paperback reprint from Prime Books “remixes” the original Golden Gryphon hardcover by removing four stories that constitute juvenalia, adding two short-shorts, deconstructing the introduction, re-weaving the title story through the text, and including additional materials, including story fragments, in the notes at the end of the book. This version is especially useful for beginning and intermediate writers to study for this reason. A version of this edition has been published in Germany by Shayol Press under the title A Heart For Lucretia.
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Secret Life. This original hardcover edition from Golden Gryphon Press made several year’s best lists and was praised by Peter Straub, among others. Locus called it a “landmark event.” It collects all of the author’s best fiction from the last 15 years.
The Day Dali Died. This trade paperback from Prime Books collects mostly short-short fiction and the best of VanderMeer’s poetry, written in the 1980s and early 1990s.
Jeff VanderMeer is a two-time winner, 12-time finalist for the World Fantasy Award as a fiction writer, editor, and publisher. The final novel in his Ambergris Cycle, Finch,was published in 2009 and was a finalist for the Locus Award, Nebula Award, and World Fantasy Award. The Steampunk Bible came out in 2011. Recent books coedited with his wife Ann include The Weird and The Thackery T. Lambshead Cabinet of Curiosities. His writer guide Booklife and associated Booklifenow website focus on sustainable creativity and he his currently working on a unique illustrated guide to writing entitled Wonderbook. His short fiction has appeared in Conjunctions, Library of America's American Fantastic Tales, and several year's best anthologies. He writes nonfiction for The Washington Post Book World, Omnivoracious, The New York Times Book Review, the B&N Review, the LA Times, The Guardian, and many others. He has lectured at MIT and the Library of Congress and helps run the Shared Worlds teen SF/Fantasy writing camp out of Wofford College. VanderMeer recently completed the first novel in the Southern Reach series, titled Annihilation.