To my mind one of the strongest of all the books I’ve designed for Lethe Press, Livia Llewellyn’s Engines of Desire: Tales of Love and Other Horrors, is on the just announced short list for the 2011 Shirley Jackson Award in the category of Single Author Collection. Livia’s gorgeous and troubling long story “Omphalos,” first published in Engines, is up for a Jackson on its own as well. Go Livia, go Livia, go!
Also go: all the authors in Ellen Datlow and Terri Windling’s Teeth, up for Edited Anthology, especially my dear friend and Lethe’s publisher, Steve Berman, for his wicked little tale “All Smiles.”