Jelly Ink Press

Small Beer Press

magic for beginners
kelly link
Illustrated by Shelley Jackson.
HC: July 1, 2005 · 1931520151 · $24
PB: Sept. 5, 2006 · 0156031876 · $14
Limited

Reviews

Best of the Year: Time Magazine, Salon, Village Voice, San Francisco Chronicle.

"Eerie and engrossing."
-- Washington Post Book World

* Not only does Link find fresh perspectives from which to explore familiar premises, she also forges ingenious connections between disparate images and narrative approaches to suggest a convincing alternate logic that shapes the worlds of her highly original fantasies."
-- Publishers Weekly (Starred Review)

** Story news:

• "Light" in Tin House.
• Two stories in young adult anthologies: "The Wrong Grave" in The Restless Dead (Deborah Noyes, ed.) and "The Constable of Abal" in The Coyote Road (Ellen Datlow & Terri Windling, eds.).
• Locus Awards: "Magic for Beginners" and Magic For Beginners.
• "The Faery Handbag" and "Magic for Beginners" both received Nebula Awards.
• New story "The Wizard of Perfil" in anthology Firebirds Rising.
• Check out the great illustration and read "Origin Story" on the site of a great new lit mag, A Public Space.
• "Stone Animals" is in The Best American Short Stories: 2005.
• "The Faery Handbag" won the Locus Award and the Hugo Award.
• Jeff Ford on Kelly Link's "Lull."
• More

** Interviews (newest first):

• Redivider | Sybil's Garage | Return of the Reluctant | Strange Horizons | Milk of Medusa | The Well | Salon.com | Beatrice.com | Locus (Order this issue: free shipping or free with subscription.)

Stranger Things Happen

• Debut collection by Kelly Link. A Salon Book of the Year and Village Voice Favorite Book.
• Reviews
• Free Download

• Fifth Printing Note: We are sorry to say some copies of this printing have page 118 reprinted where page 188 should be. There are a couple of remedies. You can download the pdf of page 188 here or you can email us.
  We are a tiny press and we apologize for our mistake. We hope the replacement page (or the book) will satisfy readers. However, if you'd rather, we will replace your book. Please email us if this is the case.
  How to identify if your copy is a 5th printing: On the copyright page it states "First Edition 5 6 7 8 9 0"
  Thank you.

Trampoline: an anthology of mostly original fiction edited by Kelly Link.

• Greer Gilman's novella "A Crowd of Bone" was a World Fantasy Award Winner. Alex Irvine's story "Gus Dreams of Biting the Mailman" and the anthology were also nominated.

"Flying Lessons" in Asimov's

"The Hortlak" in The Dark (edited by Ellen Datlow)