Alethea Kontis
Eligible for Campbell Award
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Alethea Kontis
Bio
A former child actress, Chemistry major, and Orson Scott Card Boot Camper, Alethea Kontis’s first foray into the literary world was a mixed-up picture book—AlphaOops: The Day Z Went First. In 2006, she co-edited the critically acclaimed SF all-star Elemental: The Tsunami Relief Anthology for Tor Books, and launched her exclusive dark fantasy and horror small press, Nyx Books. She also penned the Companion for Sherrilyn Kenyon’s bestselling Dark-Hunter universe (October 2007), which spent two weeks on the New York Times Bestseller list. Her short stories have appeared in Realms of Fantasy (2006), Apex Online, and Orson Scott Card’s Intergalactic Medicine Show. Beauty and Dynamite, a collection of her published and unpublished essays (featuring cameos by authors and editors you know and love) will be released in January 2008.
Alethea lives in Tennessee, where she works as a buyer for Ingram Book Company, a contributing nonfiction editor for Apex Science Fiction and Horror Digest, and a freelance editor for Solaris Books. Find out more about Alethea’s plans for world domination on her website: www.aletheakontis.com.
Bibliography
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Sherrilyn Kenyon's Dark-Hunter Compendium
St. Martin's Press, October 2007 |
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AlphaOops: The Day Z Went First
Candlewick Press; July 25, 2006 |
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Elemental: New Stories of Science Fiction and Fantasy
Tor Books; May 16, 2006 |
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Short Stories:
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"Blood & Water"
Orson Scott Card's Intergalactic Medicine Show (forthcoming) |
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"Happy Thoughts"
Apex Online, November 2007 |
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"Foiled"
Apex Online, July 2007
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"Small Magics"
Orson Scott Card's Intergalactic Medicine Show, October 2006
Illustration by Deena Warner
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"Sunday"
Realms of Fantasy, October 2006
Illustration by Scott Grimando
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Apex Digest Essays:
"Making Dynamite" (Winter 2008)
"Curses of Nature" (Fall 2007)
"Route 666: Road Trip to World Horror 2007" (Summer 2007)
"Kill Me Then" (Spring 2007)
"Blood Oath, Take One" (Winter 2007)
"Much Ado About Driving" (Fall 2006)
"Once Upon a Horror" (Summer 2006)
"Happy Birthday to Me" (Spring 2006)
"Geek Chick Summer: A Life in Conventions" (Winter 2006)
"Keeping Your Friends Close and Your Fears Closer" (Fall 2005)
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Reviews
- The Washington Post
- on AlphaOops
| "The most imaginative alphabet book since Chris Van Allsburg's The Z Was Zapped."
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- Publisher's Weekly
- on AlphaOops
| "Making chaos from order may sound like a recipe for disaster, but it also cooks up some entertaining storytelling. This tale of a scrambled alphabet leads a list of ABC books."
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- Alethea's Dad
- on AlphaOops
| "Thousands of dollars for chemistry degree and what has Dad got to show for it? An alphabet book that doesn’t even go from A to Z!"
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- Booklist
- on Elemental
| "The entire collection constitutes thought-provoking entertainment for a good cause, with all publisher and author profits earmarked for the Save the Children Tsunami Relief Fund."
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- LA Times
- on Elemental
| "Sufferin' saurians of Saturn!!! Can reading still be just plain fun?"
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- Orson Scott Card
- on AlphaOops
| "As a paean to unpredictability, this book is a charmer. You don't want to use it to learn the alphabet, or your child's future as a file clerk will be severely limited."
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- Brian Keene
- on "Blood and Water"
| "One of my favorite short stories this year."
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- HorrorWeb
- on Apex Digest
| "You can tell a lot about a publication by its nonfiction...I'm impressed with what I found. Come payday, Apex Science Fiction and Horror Digest will have at least one more subscriber."
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- Sharon Shinn
- on "Sunday"
| "'Sunday' is a charming tumble of all the fairy tales you ever knew, spiced with humor and sprinkled with true love."
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