{"id":10532,"date":"2017-08-29T19:12:27","date_gmt":"2017-08-29T23:12:27","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/chimeraobscura.com\/vm\/?p=10532"},"modified":"2017-12-23T11:34:00","modified_gmt":"2017-12-23T15:34:00","slug":"episode-233-ellen-datlow","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"http:\/\/chimeraobscura.com\/vm\/episode-233-ellen-datlow","title":{"rendered":"Episode 233 – Ellen Datlow"},"content":{"rendered":"

<\/a>\"\"<\/a><\/p>\n

Virtual Memories Show 233: Ellen Datlow<\/a><\/p>\n

http:\/\/traffic.libsyn.com\/virtualmemories\/Episode_233_-_Ellen_Datlow.mp3<\/a><\/audio><\/div>

Podcast: Play in new window<\/a> | Download<\/a><\/p>

Subscribe: Spotify<\/a> | TuneIn<\/a> | RSS<\/a> | More<\/a><\/p>\n

“The biggest part of the editor’s job is asking questions. If something’s not on the page, you have to ask the writer.”<\/p><\/blockquote>\n

Legendary (as in mega-award-winning) horror, science fiction and fantasy editor Ellen Datlow<\/a> joins the show to talk about her career. We get into defining horror (and its subset, the conte cruel), how the business has changed and hasn’t, the proper care and feeding of writers, dealing with diversity and representation in the anthologies she edits, finding good stories in translation, the pros and cons of blurring genre boundaries, keeping up with new voices, her preference for editing short fiction over novels, the writers she wishes she solicited stories from, running the monthly Fantastic Fiction reading series at the KGB Bar, the editing lesson she got from Ben Bova, and why it’s never good when an author says, “This is the best thing I’ve ever written”! Give it a listen!<\/a><\/p>\n

“Anytime a writer sends me a story and tells me it’s the best thing they’ve ever written, it’s always shit.”<\/p><\/blockquote>\n