Novels
Please contact Sally Harding at the Cooke Agency for information on foreign or reprint rights. You may also query the author at vanderworld at hotmail.com.
Latest: Finch (an Ambergris novel) and Predator: South China Sea (Dark Horse).
Shriek: An Afterword
Published in the U.K. by Pan Macmillan and the U.S. by Tor Books. Foreign rights sold to, among others, Klett-Cotta in Germany, with more pending. A short indie film based on the book, featuring music by rock band The Church will debut on the internet in late summer of 2007. A year’s best selection of Amazon.com, The San Francisco Chronicle, and The Austin Chronicle, among others.
City of Saints & Madmen
Published in the U.K. by Pan Macmillan, in the U.S. by Bantam Books, in France by Calmann-Levy, and in Germany by Klett-Cotta. Editions have or will soon appear in Romania, Portugal, Russia, Finland, and Poland, among others. A World Fantasy Award finalist, including the World Fantasy Award-winning “The Transformation of Martin Lake”. SF Site‘s book of the year and a year’s best selection of Publishers Weekly, Amazon.com, and many others.
Veniss Underground
Published in the U.K. by Pan Macmillan and in the U.S. by Bantam Books. Foreign language editions have appeared or will soon appear in Germany, Spain, Romania, and the Czech Republic, among others. A finalist for the World Fantasy Award, International Horror Guild Award, and Bram Stoker Award.









Award-winning writer Jeff VanderMeer's final novel in his Ambergris Cycle, Finch, has just been published in the the UK from Atlantic's Corvus imprint. His writer guide Booklife and associated Booklifenow website focus on sustainable creativity. Forthcoming books include The Thackery T. Lambshead Cabinet of Curiosities and The Steampunk Bible. 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, and many others. If you like the blog, please consider