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| Eleven Things You Should Know About Ellen Datlow |
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- Ellen has a blog at http://ellen-datlow.livejournal.com/
- Ellen was originally hired as a Sales Secretary and through reading the slush pile got her foot in the door to editing.#
- Ellen recently took a pictures of a dozen man hole covers in Japan.
- Ellen considers her most successful anthology to be Snow White, Blood Red which she edited with Terri Windling; there are over 72,000 mass market copies printed!*
- Editing is Ellen's love and she has no aspirations to be a writer; she only writes introductions to her anthologies because she has to.*
- Even though she is the editor of an anthology, Ellen is like the writers: she does not get to choose the cover.*
- To avoid burn-out when reading so much short fiction, Ellen switches between science fiction, fantasy, and horror.#
- What Ellen loves best about editing: "Nagging writers for their best stories and then working with them to make them even better (if necessary)".#
- What she likes least: "Waiting for reviews".#
- Nominated 34 times, Ellen has won seven World Fantasy Awards. This ties her with good friend Terri Windling as winning the most World Fantasy Awards ever. If Ellen wins this year for Salon Fantastique, Terri is the co-editor, so they will remain tied.+
- Ellen owns a bronze dodo modelled after a postcard she was sent by Howard Waldrop.
*See The Lost and the Damned Live Chat with Ellen Datlow from November 14, 2006
#See Editor Fantastique: An Interview with Ellen Datlow by Jeff VanderMeer
+See World Fantasy Award Winners & Nominees
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