Steve is at the World SF Convention in downtown Denver, starting Wed., Aug. 6. Here is his schedule:


Wed. Aug 6, 1 PM Reading, Hyatt, Agate C

Thurs. Aug 7, 2:30 PM, Slipstream Fiction panel, CoConCntr Room 505

Thurs. Aug 7, 4 PM, Book Signing, CoConCntr Hall D

Sat. Aug 9, 11:30 AM, Colorado SF Writers, CoConCntr Korbel 1C

Sat. Aug 9, 4 PM, Short vs Long Fiction, CoConCntr Room 505



ESSAY ON STEVE'S "THE UNMASKING"
An extremely thoughtful essay on Steve's old story "The Unmasking," from the anthology PHANTOMS, can be found here.

BIBLIOPHILE STALKER INTERVIEW
Bibliophile Stalker just put up an interview with us:
Steve & Melanie Tem Interview

GIVING TESTIMONY - Storytellers Unplugged - Jan. 26
Today Melanie and Steve are substituting for Janet Berliner over at Storytellers Unplugged:

Giving Testimony

THE MAN ON THE CEILING: EARLY REVIEWS

The first couple of reviews for the book-length THE MAN ON THE CEILING are in.

This one from the Jan. 14th PUBLISHER'S WEEKLY:
Publisher's Weekly

And this one from Horror Drive-In:

Horror Drive-In

THE MAN ON THE CEILING: PROMOTIONAL APPEARANCES

We will be appearing at the following places to promote our new book THE MAN ON THE CEILING:

Tuesday, March 4, 7:30 p.m. Launch Party at Tattered Cover LODO
Sunday, March 16, 3:00 p.m. reading/discussion at Denver Book Mall
Saturday, April 12, 7:30 p.m. reading/discussion at Stories for All Seasons: Second Saturday, at West Side Books

Steve will be attending LEFT COAST CRIME, March 6-9, at the downtown Denver Adam's Mark Hotel.

Both Steve and Melanie will be at this year's WORLD HORROR CONVENTION, March 27-30, in Salt Lake City.

DEADFALL HOTEL

In the fall of 2009 Wizards' Discoveries will be bringing out Steve's novel DEADFALL HOTEL, with a full complement of ghosts, vampires, werewolves, zombies, and things which cannot be named. The Deadfall was introduced in his story "Bloodwolf," in Shadows 9, back in 1986.

Steve has been working on the novel off and on ever since then, finally completing it this past summer. An extensively rewritten version of "Bloodwolf" forms chapter 2 of the novel.

Our agent, Robert Fleck, describes the novel as "a literary exploration of the roots of horror in the collective unconscious told through the story of a widower who takes the job of manager at a remote hotel where the guests are not quite like you and me, accompanied by his daughter and the ghost of his wife."

THE HOUSE BY THE BULVARNOYE KOLTSO AUDIO PODCAST

Click on the link below to listen to an online podcast of Steve reading his new story from the Ash-Tree Press anthology EXOTIC GOTHIC, edited by Danel Olson.
The House by the Bulvarnoye Koltso (audio podcast)

STEVE'S NEW STORY ON PINDELDYBOZ.COM

Steve's new piece of absurdist fiction, "Aphasic World Syndrome," is now viewable online at Pindeldyboz. (Click the link to go directly to Steve's story.)

THE YELLOW WOOD

Melanie's new novel The Yellow Wood--a magical realism exploration of the father-daughter relationship and the struggle for a child to emancipate herself from the father she believes is a sorcerer--has sold to Wizards' Discoveries line, and will be published in January of 2009. As you may remember, this is also the publisher of The Man On The Ceiling, appearing March 2008.

MELANIE TEM: Storyteller
"Telling the poetry of everyday life"

In the last quarter century, the ancient oral tradition of storytelling has seen a revival in many countries. In America, the first storytelling festival was in Jonesborough, TN, and that's where "telling" got into my blood a little over a year ago, when I sat in the audience transfixed by a master teller and found myself thinking, "I can do that! I want to do that!"

Now there are storytelling festivals in almost every state, including at least three in Colorado, and the Jonesborough festival attracts some 9000 tellers from all over the world. Having been a writer all my life, I'm exhilarated to have discovered all this, for there are stories that must be told without being written.

Here are some of mine:
"Margaret's 'Possums," which is really more about Margaret than about 'possums
"Come Live with Me," about Alzheimer's and poetry
"Cousins," in which shared experiences give rise to very different memories
"An Ordinary Little Life," about how the stories we tell, sometimes without even knowing it, can change someone else's life.

To arrange storytelling for your group or gathering, contact me at melanietem@earthlink.net or 303-477-0235.

THE MAN ON THE CEILING: THE NOVEL

Steve and Melanie's novel THE MAN ON THE CEILING, told in two intertwining voices, has sold to Philip Athans at Wizards of the Coast for their new speculative fiction imprint. The agent was Robert Fleck of Professional Media Services, who refers to the novel as "a family portrait by Salvador Dali." The Tems call it "the biography of our imaginations." The novel uses an approach similar to that of the original novella (winner of the Bram Stoker, International Horror Guild, and World Fantasy Awards), which now forms the fourth section of the novel. Publication will be in March of 2008.

STEVE'S COMICS WORK

Steve's new graphic story "SHADOWHOUSE: MY FATHER'S HEART" is out now in Blurred Vision 2 (New Narrative Art), a magazine/anthology from Blurred Books in New York. The story began as a series of ten black/white/gray acrylic paintings Steve made last summer, which he later scanned and added the text. See Part 2 of this piece in issue 3 of Blurred Vision.

Also look to see Steve's graphic story "Cubed" in the next issue of Slam Bang.

MELANIE'S THE ICE DOWNSTREAM (& OTHERS) AVAILABLE AT E-READS

There are now paperback and e-book versions of several of Melanie's books available directly from E-Reads. This includes the exclusive edition of her only short story collection THE ICE DOWNSTREAM. Other Melanie Tem books available at the site include Desmodus, Prodigal, Revenant, and Wilding.

MELANIE'S WRITING CLASS AND EDITING SERVICES
E-mail (use link below) for information about Melanie's ongoing writing class (fiction and non-fiction, all genres; $10 per class) or about her editing and in-depth critiquing services ($40 per hr).

NEW FICTION BY MELANIE AND STEVE TEM

Both Steve and Melanie have new stories appearing in the following recent and forthcoming anthologies:

THAT MYSTERIOUS DOOR: Maine Tales of Fantasy & Speculation, edited by Noreen Doyle. To be published by DOWN EAST BOOKS, Fall 2008.

STEVE RASNIC TEM's short fiction has been compared to the work of Franz Kafka, Dino Buzzati, Ray Bradbury, and Raymond Carver, but to quote Joe R. Lansdale: "Steve Rasnic Tem is a school of writing unto himself." His 200 plus published pieces have garnered him a British Fantasy Award, and nominations for the World Fantasy and Bram Stoker Awards.

MELANIE TEM's chronicles of the terrors that haunt families and the amazing resilience of the human spirit have collected a Bram Stoker award, a British Fantasy Award, and praise both here and abroad. Stephen King said of her first novel, Prodigal, "spectacular, far better than anything by new writers in the hardcover field." Dan Simmons declared it "A cry from the very heart of the heart of darkness . . . Melanie Tem may well be the literary successor to Shirley Jackson." David Morrell called her ghost novel Revenant "Hauntingly beautiful. Achingly on target." And of Black River, her latest novel published by Headline in England, the British critics said "Fascinating, overwhelming, compelling . . . Melanie Tem is one hell of a writer." (SFX) "One of the most resonant, moving novels of recent years . . . a near-masterpiece." (Darlington Northern Echo)