Anthology Announcement

I'm proud to announce that I have sold an anthology to Bantam editor Juliet Ulman. The anthology is stories based on words that have won spelling bees. You can read examples of what I'm talking about here (Hal Duncan's "The Chiaroscurist") and here (Neil Williamson's "The Euonymist"). Both of those stories were published in Electric Velocipede #9 and will be reprinted in the anthology.

The working title for the anthology is LOGORRHEA: GOOD WORDS MAKE GOOD STORIES. Thanks to Hal Duncan for the subtitle. We are planning on having the book available in late May/early June of 2007 to coincide with the National Spelling Bee.

I'm really excited to be working on this book and to be working with Juliet. She's published a host of writers I like, such as Jeff VanderMeer, KJ Bishop, Tim Pratt, Tim Lebbon, Barth Anderson, and many others. She's got a great eye for talent and is always publishing interesting projects.

The following authors are working hard on stories for this collection:

Daniel Abraham
Paolo Bacigalupi
Jay Caselberg
Clare Dudman
Hal Duncan
Theodora Goss
Liz Hand
Alex Irvine
Jay Lake
Kelly Link
Michael Moorcock
Tim Pratt
David Prill
Michelle Richmond
Lucius Shepard
Anna Tambour
Jeff VanderMeer
Leslie What
Liz Williams
Neil Williamson
Marly Youmans

I'll post more here and everywhere as more information becomes available. There may be some new authors being added to the list as we finalize the book.

John Klima