Sarah Monette

Dr. 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. She received her Ph.D. in English literature from the University of Wisconsin--Madison in 2004.

Works

Novels

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

Melusine series

• Mélusine (2006), Ace Books
• The Virtu (2007), Ace Books (first four chapters on the author's website at the link below)
• The Mirador (2007), Ace Books (first four chapters on the author's website at the link below)
• Corambis (forthcoming 2009), Ace Books

Collection

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

Short Stories and Poems

• "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.
• "Queen of Swords" (2003) in Alienskin Magazine (November) (full text on the author's website at the link below)
• "Sidhe Tigers" (2003) in Lady Churchill's Rosebud Wristlet 13 (November)
• "Bringing Helena Back" (2004) in All Hallows: The Journal of the Ghost Story Society (February); reprinted in The Bone Key.
• "The Inheritance of Barnabas Wilcox" (2004) in Lovecraft's Weird Mysteries 7 (May); reprinted in The Bone Key.
• "Straw" (2004) in Strange Horizons (June)
• "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 (January)
• "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.

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• "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.

• "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.

• "A Gift of Wings" (2006) in The Queen in Winter, a four-novella collection, Ace Books.

• "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).

• "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)

• "The Séance at Chisholm End" (2006) in Alchemy 3 (May)

• "Somewhere Beneath Those Waves Was Her Home" (2007) in Fantasy Magazine, Prime Books.

• "Under the Beansidhe's Pillow" (2007) in Lone Star Stories 22 (August)
• "The Vampire Smokes a Reflective Cigarette (date unknown), on the author's website at the link below
• "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. (full text on the author's website at the link below)
• "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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