Interfictions 2

Galleys at BEA/BookExpo NY. Galleys at NEIBA Trade Show. Advance Access galley mailing Baker & Taylor Independent Press Quarterly Pre-publication post cards to academics Pitch to editor's hometown media in Cleveland, OH, and New York, NY. Possibly in authors' hometowns as well--especially in Boston area, where we have several authors. Out reach to editors and reviewers who are known fans of cross-genre writing. Pitch to literary features and reviewers on the anthology and ideas behind the series. Pitch to fantasy and science fiction features and reviewers. Pitch to Consortium's "Required Reading" online newsletters Pitches to academics at AWP, MLA, and by direct mail campaign to English, Creative Writing, and MFA departments across the country. Advertising in trade and literary magazines. Social media campaigns utilizing Facebook, Goodreads, LibraryThing, and the Interstitial Arts web site (www.interstitialarts.org) including mixed-media online auction of artwork based on the stories. Bookstore and online salon events around country. ALA Midwinter 2010 display ALA Midsummer 2010 display. Academic conference book display service Consortium subject catalogs Cross-Marketing with the Interstitial Arts Foundation. Author's website: www.interstitialarts.org/wordpress

Twenty-one gems showing that the freshest, most startling stories come from the spaces between conventional genres.Selected as one of the Best Books of the Year in science fiction and fantasy by Amazon.com. Delving deeper into the genre-spanning territory explored in Interfictions, the Interstitial Arts Foundation's first groundbreaking anthology, Interfictions 2 showcases twenty-one original and innovative writers. It includes contributions from authors from six countries, including the United States, Poland, Norway, Australia, France, and Great Britain. Newcomers such as Alaya Dawn Johnson, Theodora Goss, and Alan DeNiro rub shoulders with established visionaries such as Jeffrey Ford (The Drowned Life), Brian Francis Slattery (Liberation), Nin Andrews (The Book of Orgasms), and M. Rickert (Map of Dreams). Also featured are works by Will Ludwigsen, Cecil Castellucci, Ray Vukcevich, Carlos Hernandez, Lavie Tidhar, Elizabeth Ziemska, Peter M. Ball, Camilla Bruce, Amelia Beamer, William Alexander, Shira Lipkin, Lionel Davoust, Stephanie Shaw, and David J. Schwartz. Colleen Mondor, of the well-known blog Chasing Ray, interviews the editors for the afterword. Henry Jenkins, ex-director of MIT's Comparative Media Studies program and now a member of USC's Annenberg School for Communication and School of Cinematic Arts, provides a fantastic introduction sure to set readers' imaginations alight. Interfictions 2 is here and ready to be read, discussed, taught, blogged, taken apart, and re-interpreted. Delia Sherman was born in Tokyo, Japan, and brought up in New York City. She earned a PhD in Renaissance Studies at Brown University and taught at Boston University and Northeastern University. She is the author of the novels Through a Brazen Mirror, The Porcelain Dove, Changeling, and The Magic Mirror of the Mermaid Queen. A co-founder of the Interstitial Arts Foundation, she lives in New York City. Christopher Barzak is the author of the novels One for Sorrow and The Love We Share Without Knowing. His stories have appeared in Nerve.com, Pindeldyboz, Strange Horizons, Descant, and the first volume of Interfictions. He teaches writing at Youngstown State University.