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Kelley Eskridge's Writing
March 18, 1999
Hi Nicola! First of all, I want to apologize that this is not actually a question for you. I was looking for a way to contact Kelley, and this is the best way I could find. I haven't read any of your fiction yet, but after cruising your website, I think I will seek some out!
As for Kelley, I recently read "Eye of the Storm" in Sirens , and have been on a quest to track down her other stories as much as I can. My sister found me a copy of "Strings" in her Year's Best , and I'm planning to order a copy ofLittle Deaths , so I'll have "And Salome Danced", and I found an excerpt of "Alien Jane" on the web (unfortunately missed it on TV), but I'm not sure where else to go to find other stuff!
Kelley, why don't you have your own website, for girls like me to find out more about you and your writing career?
Honestly, what a state I was in when I finished reading "Eye of the Storm". It was one of the most moving stories I've ever read! Your style of writing, and the characters... There's that old cliche, "I laughed, I cried..." but I actually did!!! I just wanted to let you know how much your story touched me, and to the point that I'm really expending some effort to get hold of as much of your writing as I can.
Thank you so much, Kelley, for "Eye of the Storm" and please keep writing, so I have good fiction to look forward to in the future!
Thank you, Nicola, for letting me contact Kelley. I really will check out The Blue Place -- it sounds fabulous!
I've passed this along to Kelley who was utterly delighted and has probably already sent you an email in response. But for those who might have the same questions, here's a quick bibliography:
"The Eye of the Storm" can be found in Sirens and Other Daemon Lovers edited by Ellen Datlow and Terri Windling, published by HarperPrism in November 1998.
"And Salome Danced" is in Little Deaths, edited by Ellen Datlow, published in the US in 1995 and in the UK in 1994. It will also be reprinted in Women of Other Worlds, edited by Tess Williams and Helen Merrick forthcoming from the University of Western Australia, just in time for Worldcon. This will be an interesting volume--full of essays (Kelley and I both will be represented) and discussion of feminism and science fiction.
"Strings," which first appeared in F&SF, in August 1994, can be found in The Year's Best Fantasy and Horror, Vol. 8, ed. Datlow and Windling
"Alien Jane" first appeared in Century Vol 1 and was reprinted in Nebula Awards 31, ed. Pamela Sargent
"The Hum of Human Cities" came out in Pulphouse: A Hardcover Anthology No. 9, edited by Kris Rusch, 1990
"Somewhere Down the Diamondback Road" appeared in Pulphouse 15 which I think was 15 March 1993
A lot of these stories and novelettes--particularly the two Pulphouse publications--will be difficult if not impossible to find. Maybe some time soon I'll be able to persuade Kelley to make them available online. Until then, however, the best bet for reading some of this will be in Women and Other Aliens, the collection of short fiction by me and Kelley, and essays by L.Timmel Duchamp, that we hope to have finished sometime this year.
