Ellen Datlow interview- Horror, fantasy, sci-fi fiction – “Edited By” (Subterranean, 2020)

Check the book out here https://amzn.to/32D4McZ Ellen Datlow has been editing horror, fantasy, and science fiction short stories and novellas for over forty years. She’s won numerous awards and accolades for her work and has edited numerous best of anthologies along with short stories for magazine and book publishers. Subterranean Press is releasing a book … Continue reading Ellen Datlow interview- Horror, fantasy, sci-fi fiction – “Edited By” (Subterranean, 2020) →

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Ellen Datlow has been editing horror, fantasy, and science fiction short stories and novellas for over forty years. She’s won numerous awards and accolades for her work and has edited numerous best of anthologies along with short stories for magazine and book publishers. Subterranean Press is releasing a book on some of the best stories she’s edited. I spoke to Ellen about her work as an editor, about genre fiction, and about the business in general.

0:32: Ellen talks about how she got into editing and editing anthologies.

(2:25: I think Ellen meant 1979 not 1989)

4:39 – Ellen talks about her work at OMNI and then how she got into anthologies.

8:32 – Ellen talks about hating doing writing herself.

11:29 – Ellen talks about how she chooses stories.

13:05 – Ellen talks about how she approaches stories that might need extensive edits and rewrites.

15:49 – Ellen talks about the tone and style of writing.

17:28 – Ellen talks about the time period “Edited by” covers and the genres included. She discusses her anthology work.

20:30 – Ellen talks about the difficulties of getting her pitches accepted.

23:46 – Ellen talks about how she manages an anthology project and deals with the writers in the anthology.

26:37 – Ellen talks about how she deals with anthology publishers when pitching an idea.

27:22 – Ellen talks about trends in writing.

31:29 – Ellen says that mostly all she gets to read are the things she edits. She also talks about how she is able to read so much.

33:05 – Ellen talks about some of what she is reading.

34:58 – Ellen talks about the length of stories she prefers. She talks about flash fiction past and present.

37:46 – Ellen talks about reading stories out loud. She talks about punctuation and commas.

39:24 – Ellen talks about how her editing style has changed over the years.

40:37 – Ellen talks about computer editing and track changes.

42:33 – Ellen talks about stories she has edited in the past.

46:46 – Ellen talks what she looks for in horror stories.

48:27 – Ellen talks about the publishing industry.

49:40 – Ellen talks about e-books.

50:21 – Ellen talks about editing works with art elements.

58:53 – Ellen talks about sci-fi horror.

1:01:16 – Ellen can be found on facebook and twitter @ellendatlow.

Links of interest

https://amzn.to/32D4McZ

https://subterraneanpress.com/news/announcing-edited-by-ellen-datlow/

https://www.facebook.com/EllenDatlow

https://twitter.com/EllenDatlow

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Guests: Ellen Datlow

Host: Cris Alvarez

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