Library Journal Review: VAMPIRES: THE RECENT UNDEAD

Vampires: The Recent UndeadLibrary Journal: Guran has selected twenty-five vampire stories of the “new millennium” that reflect a diversity of themes. Holly Black’s “The Coldest Girl in Cold Town” provides a bleak look at what it means to trade your humanity for immortality and eternal thirst. On the other hand, Tanya Huff’s heroine, Vicki Nelson, in “No Matter Where You Go” unselfishly follows three desperate teens into a hellish alternate universe. Tanith Lee uses her wonderfully bizarre imagination for an unusual take on the vampire theme in “La Vampiresse.” Nisi Shawl’s “To the Moment” combines the themes of love and the predatory nature of the vampire, while John Langan chills the reader with a horrifying tale of a creature haunting four American soldiers in “The Wide, Carnivorous Sky.” Other noted fantasy authors, including Carrie Vaughn, Jeanne C. Stein, Kelley Armstrong, Nancy Kilpatrick, and Chelsea Quinn Yarbro, are well represented here. VERDICT: This splendid collection will appeal to readers of the vampire genre as well as fantasy in general.

More info on the anthology here.


Welcome to the New Prime Books Website!

Thanks to the Web wizardry of Matthew Kressel we now have a long-overdue, new, spiffy keen website!

We aren’t sure all the bugs are worked out, yet, so let us know if you find any mistakes or have problems. And, of course, we’ll be adding more information as we have it.

Make sure you check out the Features section. It’s already got some goodies you won’t want to miss!

The Catalog lists our books from 2009 onwards. If a title is not linked yet, we don’t have a page for it yet.

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And, of course you can Shop! The main Shop pages show our print books. On the right side you can look at different product categories: E-books, print Books by type, and—eventually—downloadable issues of our two magazines.


Hugo & Campbell Noms

Congratulations to all Hugo and Campbell nominees! And especially to:

Best Short Story
“Amaryllis” by Carrie Vaughn, Lightspeed
“The Things” by Peter Watts, Clarkesworld

Best Professional Editor: Short Form
John Joseph Adams

Best Semiprozine
Clarkesworld, edited by Neil Clarke, Cheryl Morgan, Sean Wallace; podcast directed by Kate Baker
Lightspeed, edited by John Joseph Adams

Commentary:
This is the first time that Kate Baker has been acknowledged, and I’m hoping this year that voters will reward her hard work with a Hugo. She is truly the voice of Clarkesworld, today.

It’s also interesting to see three online stories dominating the short story category. Maybe it will continue, as it was only last year that more than one story landed on the ballot.

Women rocked the best professional editor, long form; novel; ss categories. Are we finally seeing a shift here?

Wow, out of the five nominees in semiprozine, four are actually fictionmags!

I also note five nominations for Asimov’s! Maybe this will be the year that Sheila Williams will take home a Hugo Award. Geez, isn’t it time already?


Acquisition: Living Dead Girl, Susan Sizemore

New York Times bestselling author Susan Sizemore has sold LIVING DEAD GIRL—in which a girl whom never wanted to be a superhero, especially not a dead one, but ghost hunting is a job for professionals and only the dead can kill the dead—to Paula Guran of Prime Books by Lucienne Diver of The Knight Agenc


Locus Spotlight on Publisher Sean Wallace

This interview originally appeared in the April issue of Locus, but now Locus Online has posted it in its entirety, I believe, here.


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