Sarah Monette

Sarah Monette (http://www.sarahmonette.com/) is a writer of both fantasy and science fiction, including a good deal of work with paranormal and ghost stories. Her novels and stories feature strong women, and characters of various sexual orientations.

Works

Novels

• A Companion to Wolves (with Elizabeth Bear) (2007), Tor Books

Melusine series

• Mélusine (2006), Ace Books
• The Virtu (2007), Ace Books
• The Mirador (2007), Ace Books
• Corambis (forthcoming 2009), Ace Books

Collection

• The Bone Key (2007) (connected supernatural short stories featuring the same main character)

Short Stories and Poems

• "Amante Dorée" (2006) in Paradox 10 (Winter); reprinted in Trochu Divne Kusy 3 (in press)
• "Ashes, Ashes" (2008) in All Hallows: The Journal of the Ghost Story Society (in press)
• "The Bone Key" (2007) in Say ... What's the Combination? (Say... 6, May); reprinted in The Bone Key.
• "Boojum" (with Elizabeth Bear) (2008) in Fast Ships, Black Sails, edited by Jeff and Ann VanderMeer, Night Shade Books.
• "Bringing Helena Back" (2004) in All Hallows: The Journal of the Ghost Story Society (February); reprinted in The Bone Key.
• "Darkness, as a Bride" (2008) in Cemetery Dance (in press).
• "Draco campestris" (2006) in Strange Horizons (August); reprinted in Best American Fantasy, edited by Jeff and Ann VanderMeer and Matthew Cheney, Prime Books.
• "Drowning Palmer" (2006) in All Hallows: The Journal of the Ghost Story Society; reprinted in The Bone Key.; and The Year's Best Fantasy and Horror XX, eds. Ellen Datlow, Kelly Link, and Gavin J. Grant, St. Martin's Griffin, 2007.
• "Elegy for a Demon Lover" (2005) in Tales of the Unanticipated 26 (October); reprinted in The Best of the Rest 4, edited by Brian Youmans, Suddenly Press; and in The Bone Key.
• "A Gift of Wings" (2006) in The Queen in Winter, a four-novella collection, Ace Books.
• "The Green Glass Paperweight" (2004) in Tales of the Unanticipated 25 (August); reprinted in The Bone Key.
• "The Half-Sister" (2005) in Lady Churchill's Rosebud Wristlet 15
• "The Ile of Dogges" (with Elizabeth Bear) 2006 in Aeon 7. Reprinted in The Year's Best Science Fiction XXIV, edited by Gardner Dozois (in press).
• "The Inheritance of Barnabas Wilcox" (2004) in Lovecraft's Weird Mysteries 7 (May); reprinted in The Bone Key.
• "Katabasis: Seraphic Trains" (2006) in Tales of the Unanticipated 27 (May)
• "Letter from a Teddy Bear on Veterans' Day" (2006) in Ideomancer 5.3 (September); reprinted in Best New Fantasy 2, edited by Sean Wallace (in press).
• "A Light in Troy" (2006) in Clarkesworld Magazine 1; reprinted in Best New Romantic Fantasy, edited by Paula Guran, Juno Books-Wildside Press, 2007; and in Realms: The Clarkesworld Magazine Anthology (in press).
• "Listening to Bone" (2007) in The Bone Key
• "National Geographic On Assignment: Mermaids of the Old West" (2006) in Fictitious Force 2 (Spring).
• "A Night in Electric Squidland" (2006) in Lone Star Stories 15 (June)
• "No Man's Land" (2008) in Fictitious Force (in press)
• "Queen of Swords" (2003) in Alienskin Magazine (November)
• "The Séance at Chisholm End" (2006) in Alchemy 3 (May)
• "Sidhe Tigers" (2003) in Lady Churchill's Rosebud Wristlet 13 (November)
• "Somewhere Beneath Those Waves Was Her Home" (2007) in Fantasy Magazine, Prime Books.
• "Straw" (2004) in Strange Horizons
• "Three Letters from the Queen of Elfland" (2007) in Lady Churchill's Rosebud Wristlet 11 (November); reprinted in Trochu Divne Kusy 2. Laser-books, 2006: 473-483; and in So Fey: Queer Faery Fiction, edited by Steve Birman, Haworth Positronic Press, 2007; and in The Best of Lady Churchill's Rosebud Wristlet edited by Gavin J. Grant and Kelly Link, Del Rey, 2007. Gaylactic Spectrum Award for Best Short Fiction, 2003.
• "Under the Beansidhe's Pillow." (2007) in Lone Star Stories 22 (August)
• "The Venebretti Necklace" (2004) in Alchemy 2 (September); reprinted in in The Bone Key.
• "Wait for Me" (2007) in Naked Snake Online (September); reprinted in in The Bone Key.
• "The Wall of Clouds (2003) in Alchemy 1 (December); reprinted in in The Bone Key.
• "The World Without Sleep" (2008) in Postscripts (in press)
• "Why Do You Linger?" (2008) in Subterranean Magazine (in press)
• "The Yellow Dressing Gown" (2008) in Weird Tales (in press).

Online Fiction

• Shadow Unit, an online fiction site created by Emma Bull and written by Bull, Will Shetterly, Elizabeth Bear, and Monette. The site is designed as the fan site for a fictional television show modeled on The X-Files. The "show" Shadow Unit features a wide variety of strong women, including one Asian and one African-American woman.

Nonfiction

• It Harrows Me with Fear and Wonder: Horror and Haunting in Early Modern Revenge Tragedy, the author's dissertation for her Ph.D. in English literature from the University of Wisconsin--Madison.

External Links

• Labyrinthine: the author's website
• [http://www.shadowunit.org Shadow Unit--online paranormal fiction by Monette, Emma Bull, Will Shetterly, and Elizabeth Bear

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