Press Kit
AGENT INFORMATION
For North American rights…Sally Harding at the Cooke Agency. For UK and foreign language rights…Ron Eckel at Cooke International. You can query me at vanderworld at hotmail.com and I will route your interest in book rights to the appropriate party.
Reporters, other media, and bookstores can find complete press kit materials for my novel Finch and writing strategy guide Booklife at the following links:
You can email me at vanderworld at hotmail.com. This address pings my phone much like a text message. Include your phone number if you’d prefer a phone call or text message back rather than an email.
Two other press kits exist for prior books. They include photographs, relevant free-use articles, book covers, and other information:
- Shriek: An Afterword: Everything you wanted to know about Shriek, including audio and video.
- City of Saints & Madmen: Everything you wanted to know about the cult classic mosaic novel, including screensavers and other cool things.
My Wikipedia entry also provides substantial amounts of information.
You can also find relevant information on the following sites:
Finally, the entirety of my old VanderMeer website is still available for those looking for a partial bibliography and other information.
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.