Thank you!

[ellenkushner]

Thank you, all anthropologists & friends, for your generous & genuinely fascinating information pertaining to last night's question.  I think I've got it now - well enough to realize that my anthropologist is going to have to be the Romantic Interest rather than the viewpoint character, as (a) I only have a few days to write this story, so (b) had better not risk sounding like a moron.  --That said, I now know very well who to check in with if I have a specific question, or need something vetted!  You may not have heard the last of me . . . . 

Meanwhile, if you'd like to know more about Bordertown elves & their milieus, I most heartily recommend Emma Bull's novel Finder, Will Shetterly's Elsewhere and Never Never, and the shared world anthology The Essential Bordertown (edited by series creator Terri Windling & our own deliasherman ,  with stories by many fine folk including me).

The brand-new Bordertown anthology, Welcome to Bordertown, is scheduled for Summer 2011 from Random House, edited by Holly Black & me, with introductions by Holly & Terri, and stories by Many Fine Folk to be announced quite soon. 

Comments

[chaoticgoodnik.livejournal.com]

I don't know whether to smile because it's happening or pout because it will be a long time before I get to read it. >.>

[ellen-kushner.livejournal.com]

It will, I think, be worth the wait.

[jay-of-lasgalen.livejournal.com]

I haven't read any of the Bordertown tales, but your recent posts have been intriguing. I really have to read them!

[ellen-kushner.livejournal.com]

Thank you! And sorry we won't be able to visit this time - but hoping for next . . . we'll be back!

[jay-of-lasgalen.livejournal.com]

Never mind - next time!

[girasole.livejournal.com]

Just ordered a couple titles: how could I have missed these?
Ever your devoted reader,

[ellen-kushner.livejournal.com]

I think you'll enjoy them very much - let me know!

[m4thte4cher.livejournal.com]

I know nothing of anthropologists (nor arthropologists, nor ethno-apologists), but today I saw a young woman at Grand Central in the passageway from the 4 train to the Times Square Shuttle selling short stories from an open typewriter case. I thought to myself, "what an intriguing way to self-publish."