*CONTACT: Leslie Howle NW MediaArts*

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* NW Media Arts and University Book Store* *present *

*An Evening with Author/Editor*

*Jeff VanderMeer: BOOKWORK FOR A BOOKLIFE *

*Monday, November 9th, 2009 · 7:00 p.m. *

*Fantastic Fiction Salon at Richard Hugo House Cabaret*

$5 suggested donation

*NW Media Arts and Seattle’s University Book Store** invite you to join us
each month as we present critically acclaimed writers from across the US
whose work showcases the finest of speculative literature. Please join us
for a talk and discussion with author Jeff VanderMeer at Richard Hugo House.
Jeff will also teach a one day writing workshop at Hugo House on 11.25.09.*

*BOOKWORK FOR A BOOKLIFE: *Award-winning writer and editor Jeff VanderMeer
shares the inside, often outrageous, details of working on successful,
complex book projects, along with sustainable career and creativity advice
for this new media age. The world of publishing is changing. How should you
change with it, and what will remain the same? Practical, irreverent,
idealistic, and brash, VanderMeer will give a talk followed by a
discussion with Fantastic Fiction series curator Leslie Howle and then take
questions from the audience. VanderMeer is the author of Booklife:
Strategies and Survival Tips for the 21st-Century Writer. "A frank,
revealing, riveting manual not simply on how to be a better wordsmith, but
on how to be a better human being." - Minister Faust

Jeff VanderMeer’s fiction has been published in over 20 countries. His
books, including the bestselling City of Saints & Madmen, have made the
year’s best lists of Publishers Weekly, LA Weekly, Amazon, and more.
VanderMeer has won two World Fantasy Awards, an NEA-funded Florida
Individual Writers’ Fellowship, and, most recently, the Le Cafard Cosmique
Award  in France and the Tähtifantasia Award in Finland. He has also been a
finalist, as writer or editor, for the Hugo Award, Bram Stoker Award, IHG
Award, Philip K. Dick Award, Shirley Jackson Award, and many others. The
author of over three hundred stories, his short fiction has appeared
recently in Conjunctions, Black Clock, Tor.com, Songs of the Dying Earth
(among several other original and year’s best anthologies,) and Library of
America’s American Fantastic Tales, edited by Peter Straub. Collections
include Secret Life and the forthcoming The Third Bear.

              He reviews books for the New York Times Book Review, the
Washington Post Book World, and the Barnes & Noble Review, as well as being
a regular columnist for the Omnivoracious book blog. Current projects
include Booklife: Strategies and Survival Tips for Twenty-First Century
Writers, the noir fantasy novel Finch, and the forthcoming definitive
Steampunk Bible from Abrams Books.  He teaches workshops and does guest
lecturing all over the world.

Venue: Richard Hugo House ●1634 11th Avenue ● Seattle, WA 98122 ● (206)
322-7030