The Uncanny Reader....and One Uncannily Great Writer & Editor

Marjorie Sandor, my thesis advisor at Oregon State University, is one terrific writer & editor. She helped me crack through to the next layers of my own writing -- she has that gift of Tough Love imbued with gritty magic and attention to detail. She always talked about taking apart your sentences -- what's in-between (or beneath) the sentences? What exists word-wise and emotion-wise in those spaces we're sometimes afraid to explore? What can be cut or flipped on its head? She helped me reach into my spiritual guts, yank out the awful and beautiful stuff, and spin it all together into Story.

The Uncanny Reader, a new collection I can't wait to read, has been edited by Marjorie and published by St. Martin's Press. The publishing house states:

"From the deeply unsettling to the possibly supernatural, thirty-one border-crossing stories from around the world explore the uncanny in literature, and delve into our increasingly unstable sense of self, home, and planet."

The authors included here will knock your socks off -- and maybe make you want to keep the lights on at night.

Plus, if you just want a good ol' definition of "uncanny," then the book trailer is worth the price of admission alone. You can watch it by clicking here.

Finally, you can check out more of Marjorie's work here, including her own powerful and illuminating fiction:

http://marjoriesandor.com