DANIEL A. RABUZZI
author of The Choir Boats:
Volume One of Longing for Yount
NEWS
Guest speaker at the Toronto SpecFic Colloquium
October 15, 2011 -- 9AM to 6PM
At the SpecFic Colloquium we will talk about the resurgent interest in fairy tale and myth, specfically the desire to write and read them “against the grain.” I'll lead a discussion on "A Dragon of Their Own: Fairy Tale & Myth From a Feminist Perspective."
Ursula Pflug reviews The Choir Boats in the NOV 2010 issue of New York Review of Science Fiction.
Katherine Petersen's December 3, 2010 review is online at The Specusphere blog.
"MOST-POPULAR-EVER" Book of the Month at Wowio.com: The ebook emporium Wowio features a free ebook each month, and during July 2010 The Choir Boats smashed previous records to became its most popular free download ever! Thank you Wowio, and thanks to all the bloggers who spread the word!
Author reading, Battery Park Library Branch, Thursday July 15, 2010, 4:00 PM
Gavin Grant interviews me at Small Beer Press.
Faren Miller reviews The Choir Boats in the January 2010 issue of Locus magazine (see my Reviews page for quotes).
"Fletcher Alum's Novel Unites Fantasy and Family" - Tufts Daily article & interview
High praise for Chizine Publications and its authors at Publisher's Weekly blog "Genreville" by Rose Fox: "Chizine Press continues to hit the mark. I don't know what's in the water up in Canada, but it's turning out some great writers, and CZP is finding and publishing them with amazing alacrity. If I could subscribe to a publisher like a magazine or a book club--one flat annual fee to get everything they publish--I would subscribe to CZP."
RECENT EVENTS
* Lunacon 2010, Saturday March 20, 2010
Hilton Rye Town
Rye Brook, NY 10573
Lunacon is New York's oldest science fiction and fantasy convention. Daniel's schedule:
"The Legacy of Mervyn Peake" (moderator): Saturday 11:00 AM - 12:00 PM
Tolkein isn't the only author whose influence can be felt on the fantasy genre today. Daniel
Rabuzzi looks at the Gothic and neo-Romantic trend in today's fiction, including work by
Greer Gilman, Susanna Clarke, Naomi Novik, Theodora Goss, Sonya Taaffe, and others.
"Fairy tales, Mythology, and Folklore: Oh My!" Saturday 3:00 PM - 4:00 PM
The old familiar tales of ages past are constantly being retold and rewoven into new
patterns. Our panelists discuss the influence and interplay between folklore and modern
fantasy. Ellen Asher, Jonathan Maberry, Daniel Rabuzzi, Josepha Sherman, Jane T. Sibley [M]
The Choir Boats reading and book signing: Saturday 7:30 PM - 8:00 PM
The Choir Boats on Facebook
* Saturday February 27, 2010 -- 2:00 PM
Swarthmore College, Lang Performing Arts Center, Room 301
* Arisia 2010, Cambridge, MA --January 15 to 18, 2010
Arisia is the largest fantasy/science-fiction convention in New England. I appeared on the following panels:
Sat 10:00 am Non-Standard Fantasy (moderator)
Sat 12:00 pm The Undefended Borders of SF
Sat 4:00 pm Interstitial Fiction: Dancing Between Genres
Sat 7:00 pm Inherent Darkness of Fairy Tales
Sun 10:00 am The City as Character
Sun 12:00 pm Myth and Folklore in Fantasy
* The Observatory, Brooklyn, NY - December 11, 2009
"Coincident Monsters: A Conversation on the Making of The Choir Boats"
Book reading, art show and discussion of precedents and process. Author Daniel A. Rabuzzi, and illustrator Deborah A. Mills discussed their creative collaboration on the novel, and how they arrived at knuckledogs, carkodrillos, giant knife-tailed owls, and Renaissance-map-inspired sea monsters.
* Astronomicon, Rochester NY - November 8, 2009
Reading and Panels
* Worldcon 2009, Montreal - August 8, 2009
Launch Party - see my convention report at my blog Lobster & Canary
* Syracuse Arts Festival - July 25, 2009
I read from and signed The Choir Boats at the Syracuse University Bookstore's booth.
* Readercon 20 - July 9, 2009
I read my poem "Backsight" as part of the Sybil's Garage group reading.
