Kelly Link Books In Order
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Publication Order of Short Stories/Novellas
Travels with the Snow Queen | (1996) | Hardcover Paperback Kindle |
The Specialist's Hat | (1998) | Hardcover Paperback Kindle |
Shoe and Marriage | (2000) | Hardcover Paperback Kindle |
The Faery Handbag | (2004) | Hardcover Paperback Kindle |
The Hortlak | (2005) | Hardcover Paperback Kindle |
Some Zombie Contingency Plans | (2005) | Hardcover Paperback Kindle |
Stone Animals | (2012) | Hardcover Paperback Kindle |
I Can See Right Through You | (2014) | Hardcover Paperback Kindle |
The Game of Smash and Recovery | (2015) | Hardcover Paperback Kindle |
The Summer People | (2015) | Hardcover Paperback Kindle |
Publication Order of Collections
Stranger Things Happen | (2001) | Hardcover Paperback Kindle |
Magic for Beginners | (2005) | Hardcover Paperback Kindle |
Pretty Monsters | (2005) | Hardcover Paperback Kindle |
Get in Trouble | (2015) | Hardcover Paperback Kindle |
White Cat, Black Dog | (2023) | Hardcover Paperback Kindle |
Publication Order of Ghosts of the Shadow Market Books
Son of the Dawn | (2018) | Hardcover Paperback Kindle |
Cast Long Shadows | (2018) | Hardcover Paperback Kindle |
Every Exquisite Thing | (2018) | Hardcover Paperback Kindle |
Learn About Loss | (2018) | Hardcover Paperback Kindle |
A Deeper Love | (2018) | Hardcover Paperback Kindle |
The Wicked Ones | (2018) | Hardcover Paperback Kindle |
The Land I Lost | (2018) | Hardcover Paperback Kindle |
Through Blood, Through Fire | (2018) | Hardcover Paperback Kindle |
Publication Order of Lady Churchill's Rosebud Wristlet Books
Lady Churchill's Rosebud Wristlet No. 12 | (2003) | Hardcover Paperback Kindle |
Lady Churchill's Rosebud Wristlet No. 13 | (2003) | Hardcover Paperback Kindle |
Lady Churchill's Rosebud Wristlet No. 14 | (2003) | Hardcover Paperback Kindle |
Lady Churchill's Rosebud Wristlet No. 15 | (2005) | Hardcover Paperback Kindle |
Lady Churchill's Rosebud Wristlet No. 16 | (2005) | Hardcover Paperback Kindle |
Lady Churchill’s Rosebud Wristlet No. 17 | (2005) | Hardcover Paperback Kindle |
Lady Churchill's Rosebud Wristlet No. 18 | (2006) | Hardcover Paperback Kindle |
Lady Churchill's Rosebud Wristlet No. 19 | (2006) | Hardcover Paperback Kindle |
Lady Churchill's Rosebud Wristlet No. 20 | (2007) | Hardcover Paperback Kindle |
Lady Churchill's Rosebud Wristlet No. 21 | (2007) | Hardcover Paperback Kindle |
Lady Churchill's Rosebud Wristlet No. 22 | (2008) | Hardcover Paperback Kindle |
Lady Churchill's Rosebud Wristlet No. 23 | (2008) | Hardcover Paperback Kindle |
Lady Churchill's Rosebud Wristlet No. 24 | (2009) | Hardcover Paperback Kindle |
Lady Churchill's Rosebud Wristlet No. 25 | (2009) | Hardcover Paperback Kindle |
Lady Churchill's Rosebud Wristlet, No.26 December 2010 | (2010) | Hardcover Paperback Kindle |
Lady Churchill's Rosebud Wristlet No. 27 | (2011) | Hardcover Paperback Kindle |
Lady Churchill's Rosebud Wristlet No. 28 | (2012) | Hardcover Paperback Kindle |
Lady Churchill's Rosebud Wristlet No. 29 | (2013) | Hardcover Paperback Kindle |
Lady Churchill's Rosebud Wristlet No. 30 | (2013) | Hardcover Paperback Kindle |
Lady Churchill's Rosebud Wristlet No. 31 | (2014) | Hardcover Paperback Kindle |
Lady Churchill's Rosebud Wristlet No. 33 | (2015) | Hardcover Paperback Kindle |
Lady Churchill's Rosebud Wristlet No. 34 | (2016) | Hardcover Paperback Kindle |
Lady Churchill's Rosebud Wristlet No. 36 | (2017) | Hardcover Paperback Kindle |
Lady Churchill’s Rosebud Wristlet No. 37 | (2018) | Hardcover Paperback Kindle |
Lady Churchill’s Rosebud Wristlet No. 38 | (2018) | Hardcover Paperback Kindle |
Lady Churchill’s Rosebud Wristlet No. 42 | (2020) | Hardcover Paperback Kindle |
Lady Churchill's Rosebud Wristlet No. 45 | (2022) | Hardcover Paperback Kindle |
Lady Churchill’s Rosebud Wristlet No. 43 | (2023) | Hardcover Paperback Kindle |
Publication Order of The WisCon Chronicles Books
The WisCon Chronicles, Vol. 2: Provocative essays on feminism, race, revolution, and the future | (2008) | Hardcover Paperback Kindle |
The Wiscon Chronicles, Vol.3: Carnival of Feminist SF | (2009) | Hardcover Paperback Kindle |
The WisCon Chronicles, Volume 4 | (2010) | Hardcover Paperback Kindle |
The Wiscon Chronicles Volume 5 | (2011) | Hardcover Paperback Kindle |
The WisCon Chronicles Vol. 6: Futures of Feminism and Fandom | (2012) | Hardcover Paperback Kindle |
The Wiscon Chronicles Vol 7: Shattering Ableist Narratives | (2013) | Hardcover Paperback Kindle |
The WisCon Chronicles, Vol.9 | (2015) | Hardcover Paperback Kindle |
The WisCon Chronicles 11 | (2017) | Hardcover Paperback Kindle |
Publication Order of Anthologies
The Mammoth Book of Best New Horror 10 | (1999) | Hardcover Paperback Kindle |
The Vintage Book of Amnesia | (2000) | Hardcover Paperback Kindle |
Fourteenth Annual Collection | (2001) | Hardcover Paperback Kindle |
Mammoth Book of Best New Horror 13 | (2002) | Hardcover Paperback Kindle |
Fifteenth Annual Collection | (2002) | Hardcover Paperback Kindle |
The Dark: New Ghost Stories | (2003) | Hardcover Paperback Kindle |
The Mammoth Book of Best New Horror 14 | (2003) | Hardcover Paperback Kindle |
Trampoline | (2003) | Hardcover Paperback Kindle |
Sixteenth Annual Collection | (2003) | Hardcover Paperback Kindle |
Seventeenth Annual Collection | (2004) | Hardcover Paperback Kindle |
The Faery Reel: Tales from the Twilight Realm | (2004) | Hardcover Paperback Kindle |
Firebirds Rising: An Anthology of Original Science Fiction and Fantasy | (2005) | Hardcover Paperback Kindle |
Best New Horror 16 | (2005) | Hardcover Paperback Kindle |
Fantasy: The Best of the Year, 2006 Edition | (2006) | Hardcover Paperback Kindle |
Nineteenth Annual Collection | (2006) | Hardcover Paperback Kindle |
Best New Fantasy | (2006) | Hardcover Paperback Kindle |
The Best of Lady Churchill's Rosebud Wristlet | (2007) | Hardcover Paperback Kindle |
Nebula Awards 41 (2007) | (2007) | Hardcover Paperback Kindle |
Nebula Awards Showcase 2007 | (2007) | Hardcover Paperback Kindle |
The Restless Dead | (2007) | Hardcover Paperback Kindle |
The Coyote Road: Trickster Tales | (2007) | Hardcover Paperback Kindle |
Best American Fantasy | (2007) | Hardcover Paperback Kindle |
TwentiethAnnual Collection | (2007) | Hardcover Paperback Kindle |
Fantasy: The Best of the Year, 2008 Edition | (2008) | Hardcover Paperback Kindle |
The WisCon Chronicles, Vol. 2: Provocative essays on feminism, race, revolution, and the future | (2008) | Hardcover Paperback Kindle |
Twenty-First Annual Collection | (2008) | Hardcover Paperback Kindle |
The Year's Best Science Fiction & Fantasy, 2009 | (2009) | Hardcover Paperback Kindle |
Geektastic: Stories from the Nerd Herd | (2009) | Hardcover Paperback Kindle |
The Year's Best Dark Fantasy & Horror 2010 | (2009) | Hardcover Paperback Kindle |
Darkness: Two Decades of Modern Horror | (2010) | Hardcover Paperback Kindle |
Bloody Fabulous | (2010) | Hardcover Paperback Kindle |
Sympathy for the Devil | (2010) | Hardcover Paperback Kindle |
The Living Dead 2 | (2010) | Hardcover Paperback Kindle |
My Mother She Killed Me, My Father He Ate Me | (2010) | Hardcover Paperback Kindle |
Happily Ever After | (2011) | Hardcover Paperback Kindle |
Fantasy Magazine, July 2011 | (2011) | Hardcover Paperback Kindle |
Steampunk! An Anthology of Fantastically Rich and Strange Stories | (2011) | Hardcover Paperback Kindle |
Z: Zombie Stories | (2011) | Hardcover Paperback Kindle |
Monsters of Literary Sightings | (2012) | Hardcover Paperback Kindle |
Witches: Wicked, Wild & Wonderful | (2012) | Hardcover Paperback Kindle |
The Year's Best Science Fiction & Fantasy, 2012 | (2012) | Hardcover Paperback Kindle |
Shadow Show: All-New Stories in Celebration of Ray Bradbury | (2012) | Hardcover Paperback Kindle |
Lightspeed Magazine, December 2012 | (2012) | Hardcover Paperback Kindle |
The O. Henry Prize Stories 2013 | (2013) | Hardcover Paperback Kindle |
Super Stories of Heroes and Villains | (2013) | Hardcover Paperback Kindle |
Superheroes | (2013) | Hardcover Paperback Kindle |
The Year's Best Science Fiction & Fantasy, 2013 | (2013) | Hardcover Paperback Kindle |
The Best Science Fiction and Fantasy of the Year, Volume Nine | (2014) | Hardcover Paperback Kindle |
Monstrous Affections: An Anthology of Beastly Tales | (2014) | Hardcover Paperback Kindle |
Lightspeed Magazine, October 2014 | (2014) | Hardcover Paperback Kindle |
My True Love Gave to Me | (2014) | Hardcover Paperback Kindle |
The Best American Science Fiction and Fantasy 2015 | (2015) | Hardcover Paperback Kindle |
Lightspeed Magazine, December 2015 | (2015) | Hardcover Paperback Kindle |
The Year's Best Science Fiction: Thirty-Third Annual Collection | (2016) | Hardcover Paperback Kindle |
Behind the Mask: A Superhero Anthology | (2017) | Hardcover Paperback Kindle |
Ex Libris: Stories of Librarians, Libraries, and Lore | (2017) | Hardcover Paperback Kindle |
Monkey Business: New Writing from Japan - Volume 5 | (2018) | Hardcover Paperback Kindle |
Monkey Business: New Writing from Japan Volume 6 | (2018) | Hardcover Paperback Kindle |
Dread and Delight: Fairy Tales in an Anxious World | (2018) | Hardcover Paperback Kindle |
Ghosts of the Shadow Market | (2019) | Hardcover Paperback Kindle |
Edited By | (2020) | Hardcover Paperback Kindle |
Inviting Interruptions: Wonder Tales in the Twenty-First Century | (2021) | Hardcover Paperback Kindle |
The Dark: Ghost Stories | (2023) | Hardcover Paperback Kindle |
Kelly Link is best known as the author of literary fiction, general fantasy, young adult fantasy, and horror fiction novels.
She is best known for her short story collection with her most popular being “Stranger Things Happen.”
Her other collections include “Get in Trouble,” “Pretty Monsters,” “Magic for Beginners,” and “White Cat, Black Dog,” which made the final shortlist for the Pulitzer Prize.
Over the years, Kelly Link’s novels have been published in the likes of “Prize Stories,” “The Best American Short Stories,” and “The Magazine of Fantasy Science Fiction.”
In 2018, she received a National Endowment for the Arts and the MacArthur Fellowship.
She has also worked with Gavin J. Grant and together they have co-edited several anthologies including “Monstrous Affections,” “Steampunk,” and several volumes of “The Year’s Best Horror and Fantasy for Young Adults.”
She is also the co-editor of “Lady Churchill’s Rosebud Wristlet,” which is an occasional zine. Kelly also cofounded the “Small Beer Press.”
She currently lives in Northampton, Massachusetts with her husband and one child, and is the owner of “Book Moon,” the independent bookstore in Easthampton.
In her teenage years, Kelly Link went to study creative writing at Columbia and it was there that she began writing the manuscript for her debut novel.
She showed several of the chapters to her professor who then showed them to his editor and agent. They asked if she was interested in finishing it, but since she had recently won a six-month trip in a lottery she declined the offer.
At that time, she believed the trip was more pressing than finishing her novel and by the time she returned, she had lost all passion for writing.
After she graduated from the Greensboro-based University of North Carolina with her M.F.A., she enrolled in the Clarion Fantasy and Science Fiction Writers’ Workshop.
At the workshop, she got to meet many aspiring authors who were just as lost as her. She also met people who admired the many authors she liked such as Tolkien, Asimov, and Heinlein.
At the college, it was always clear to many of her professors that Kelly was very talented and wrote better than many of her colleagues and even the professors.
While she believed that she had a bright future, things did not pan out as she expected after graduating from college.
For many years, Kelly Link tried selling a collection for many years but most editors said they liked her stories but asked if she had a novel instead.
At some point, she moved to Boston where she started working at a bookstore which is where she met Grant the gregarious Scot who would become her husband.
After becoming frustrated by publishers, she decided to team up with her husband and together they started “Small Beer Press” their own publishing business.
“Stranger Things Happen” was the first thing they ever published. They were thinking that if they could not sell Kelly’s collection, there could be other authors that might have other collections they might help them publish.
They also established “Lady Churchill’s Rosebud Wristlet,” a zine that together with the press is an avenue for slightly weird unpublished authors to become published.
Still, they also publish novels by established authors such as Ted Chiang, Joan Aiken, and Ursula K. Le Guin.
Kelly Link’s collection “Stranger Things Happen” is the author’s first work.
In this, she takes cautionary tales and fairy tales, extraterrestrials and dictators, honeymooners and amnesiacs, readers and revenants alike on a voyage into wonderful, strange, and new territory.
In one story, a girl detective needs to head to the underworld and investigate the mysterious case of tap-dancing robbers. In another, sexy blond aliens have been invading New York City. A young girl is learning how to make herself disappear.
A newly married couple enrolls and participates in an apocalyptic beauty pageant. There is a librarian who falls in love with the daughter of a collector of artificial noses while a dead man somehow sends letters to his estranged wife from the other world.
These are smart, spooky, and quirky stories with sappy endings and a secret prize. They are all penned with a light hand and are crazy, bittersweet, absurd, and spooky.
Each story seems to be perfectly self-contained but on the whole, there is a hint of a bigger world and it is possible that everything may be all related.
The author goes against tradition, as she writes in an experimental fashion in the present tense and in the second person which is not very common nowadays.
In “Get in Trouble” Kelly Link once again shows her brilliance as she constructs unforgettable fictional universes in each story.
“The Summer People” is set in rural North Carolina where a young girl is the caretaker to never quite glimpsed and mysterious visitors that live in the cottage behind her house.
The middle-aged movie star in “I Can See Right Through You” heads to a swamp in Florida to take part in a ghost-hunting reality show with a former on-off-screen love interest.
In the short story “The New Boyfriend,” there is an unusual turn at a slumber party in the suburbs where a teenage friendship is severely tested.
The stories in this collection encompass anything and everything from the Pyramids, Hurricanes, superheroes, astronauts, “The Wizard of Oz,” and evil twins.
But as fantastical as the stories can be, they are grounded in innate generosity and sly humor.
“Magic for Beginners” by Kerry Link is a work in which you will never be sure what you will get when you open the next page. Nonetheless, you will come to realize that the random unknowing is what makes Kelly’s story so sweet.
The nine stories of the collection mirror those in her debut “Stranger Things Happen” as the author blends pathos and quirky humor to make for delicate lyrical fantasy.
In “Stone Animals,” a house is haunted by hordes of rabbits who come out to camp on the front lawn each night. This results in some inexplicable phenomena that soon start to cause rifts in the new family that just moved into the house.
In “Magic for Beginners,” the title of the collection, the author showcases the unpredictable potential of teenagers by following several teen friends whose experiences are similar to a surreal TV fantasy series.
Another interesting story is “Some Zombie Contingency Plans” in which zombies showcase a young man’s anxieties for the future in stark contrast to two store clerks from the story “The Hortlak.”
In this collection, Kelly Link brings forth new perspectives as she explores familiar premises.