CONTACT INFORMATION
Jeff VanderMeer, Author
email: vanderworld at hotmail.com
POB 4248
Tallahassee, FL 32315 USA
Chris Artis, Bantam Publicist (for the United
States and Canada)
cartis at randomhouse.com (212/782-9037)
Claire
Weaver, Author Publicist (for United Kingdom only)
RELATED LINKS
Ambergris.org
The official site for information about the Ambergris milieu.
JeffVanderMeer.com
The author's official site, with news and upcoming events sections.
Bantam-Spectra
Bantam-Spectra information about the book.
VANDERMEER APPEARANCES
Jeff has several presentations/lectures that he has given at such venues
as the Walker Arts Center in Minneapolis, the Brisbane Writers Festival
in Australia, and the World Fantasy Convention. These include:
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Short readings from his fiction
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Experimental Fiction workshop
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Fantasy lecture
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Fantasy Fiction workshop
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Gentle Art of Self-Promotion workshop
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City of Saints & Madmen: A Rough Guide to Ambergris
(multi-media presentation).
Please email Jeff if you are interested
in having him appear at your venue or bookstore.
QUOTES
“In the hands of a brilliant writer like Jeff VanderMeer, writing
fantasy can be a means of serious artistic expression. In VanderMeer’s
hands, it is also playful, poignant, and utterly, wildly, imaginative.”
- Peter Straub
“Unsettling, erudite, dark, shot through with unexpected humor.
Ambergris is one of my favorite haunts in fiction.” –
China Mieville
'This is fiction to stand alongside that of Calvino and Borges.'
- The Guardian
'VanderMeer can be both terrifying and hilarious. He is a master
of the implied back story... This is just a very, very
strange book, and an essential one too.' - Time
Out
'Fearless inventiveness and compelling strangeness. Angela Carter
would have loved this book.' - Rikki Ducornet
'Marvelously dark and grotesque... VanderMeer's creation of his
world is complex and convincing.' - Review of
Contemporary Fiction
PRESS KIT
City of Saints
& Madmen Bantam Press Release
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About the Author
Jeff VanderMeer is a two-time winner of the World Fantasy Award, and
has made the year's best lists of Publishers Weekly, The San
Francisco Chronicle, The Los Angeles Weekly,
Publishers' News, and Amazon.com. His fiction has been shortlisted
for Best American Short Stories and appeared in several year’s best
anthologies. Books by VanderMeer are forthcoming from Bantam, Pan Macmillan,
and Tor.
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A useful summary of the author's accomplishments and recent books.
Author Photos
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VanderMeer
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Free-Use Articles
Writing
About Fantastical Cities by Jeff VanderMeer
One night in 1993, I woke up with a vision in my head of a woman in a
window and a missionary looking up at her from a crowded street. Every
detail had a kind of super-heated intensity to it…
About
Jeff VanderMeer by Scott Miller
This spring, Bantam Spectra releases the paperback edition of American
indie press icon Jeff VanderMeer’s cult classic City of Saints
& Madmen. VanderMeer has come a long way since he put together
his first collection, The Book of Frog, in the living room of
his apartment in Gainesville, Florida, back in 1988…
About
Jeff VanderMeer's Multi-Media "City of Saints & Madmen: A Rough
Guide to Ambergris"
Modern
Word's Review of City of Saints & Madmen (can be excerpted)
Like the best architects of imaginary cities, VanderMeer has crafted
a dark mirror to reflect (and often distort) our own conceptions of reality,
bringing into focus the many ways the human imagination attempts to make
sense of an often senseless universe…
City
of Saints: The Untold Story
The path from writing the stories to finding a publisher to oh-so-elusive
publication has been so perilous, so littered with dead-ends and false
starts, that it often seemed unlikely it would ever see print, let alone
receive so much critical praise and reader appreciation…
Additional Excerpts (from the Ambergris.org
website)
In
the Hours After Death
In the first hour after death, the room is so still that every sound
holds a terrible clarity, like the tap of a knife against glass. The soft
pad of shoes as someone walks away and closes the door is profoundly solid—each
short footstep weighted, distinct…
The
Release of Belacqua
Much about him cried out for attention. Above the black shoes: the long
red socks, matched only by the outrageous pink-blue chessboard buttons
of his jacket, mimicked in lazy rural fashion by the green eyes on his
yellow shirt. His hair—in a twisted red braid (frayed at the end)—hung
down in front like the fuse to the bomb of his head…
The
Man Who Had No Eyes
There came a day when the gray caps changed the course of the River Moth
and flooded the city of Ambergris. At first, people found that life did
not change much under the new rulers. It certainly did not change for
the most famous writer in Ambergris. Born in the city, he used the city
as his palette, bending every word in the world to his will…
Ambergris
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