Praise for Wicked Wonders

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“Poignant and relatable tales.”
—Library Journal

“The reader never knows what fantastic surprise may come next. Enthusiasts of genre fiction—fantasy, science fiction, metafiction—will delight in these 14 strong tales.”
—San Francisco Chronicle

“Very highly recommended.”
—She Treads Softly

 “Witty and subversive.”
—Reader’s Lane

 "The stories here are beautifully written, entertaining, heartfelt, and thoroughly enjoyable. Klages is a talented storyteller with a knack for creating worlds and situations that morph into new, wondrous things.”
—Lit Reactor 

 “Serious, funny, tough, tender  . . . This is a collection of stories that I felt better for having read.  Strongly recommended.”
—Big Book Balloon

“All the stories in Klages' brilliant collection have an understated charm. They start of so calmly and quietly, perfectly normal and straightforward except for those few notes that are both discordant and yet elevate the story. And then something wonderful happens on the pages of each story, and I think it is best described as joy.”
—A Universe in Words

“In these 14 tales, Ellen Klages managed to shift my paradigms, to help me regain some of the magic lost in my passage out of childhood. Such is the power of the short story, when told by one skilled in the magic of words.” 
—Barnes and Noble

“Klages has a very unique way of telling a story that sneaks up on you and burrows under the layers of your subconscious, ready to pop up when you least expect it. She’s a great writer, and I’ll definitely keep an eye out for more of her work.”
—Fiction Fantastic

“Klages surprises in each story, but maintains a sense of humanity and warmth throughout that transforms her tales from narrative experiments into powerful observations of the human (and non-human) condition.”
—Barnes & Noble 

 “Witty, sly, wicked, and poignant.”
—Lightspeed 

 “Klages writes from the emotional center of a tale rather than from the science fiction conceit . . . Klages' mastery of the telling detail is evident.”
—Chicago Tribune

“Full of consistently thoughtful, clever, affecting stories, all overlaid by a sort of gently reassuring feeling of nostalgia.”
—SF Bluestocking

“Ellen Klages is a phenomenally skilled writer with the miraculous ability to immerse her readers into nostalgic years of childhoods passed. Her stories also have a clear feminist bent, with the focus on the lives of smart and strong willed women.” 
—The Illustrated Page

“Ellen Klages’ Wicked Wonders is smart, sad, funny, moving fiction . . . highly entertaining.”
—Amazing Stories 

“Like Bradbury, Klages is notable for the clarity and unstrained elegance of her prose . . . she’s learned from writers as diverse as Bradbury and Cheever, part of Klages’s storytelling DNA derives from old radio raconteurs like Jean Shepherd or Garrison Keillor.”
—Locus

“Wicked Wonders is a collection that the reader finds themselves not wanting to put down, but also not wanting to finish out of fear that they will have to leave the magical world they’ve found behind when the close the cover.”
—Fangirl Nation

 “A mixture of heartbreaking magical melancholy, vintage nostalgia, and forlorn near-futurism . . . the aesthetic is memorably fantastic."
—Nostalgia Reader

“The stories collected in Ellen Klages’ Wicked Wonders are the best kind: ones that deliver charm and delight the first time, then open further and compound their meanings on each consecutive read. As I devoured the collection, I kept saying, ‘This one is my favorite. No. This one.’ And then I turned the page to find even more.” 
—Fran Wilde, author of Updraft and Cloudbound

“Delightful. Disturbing. Delicious. And always, her prose is gorgeous. Klages is one of my favourite authors.”
—Nalo Hopkinson, author of The Salt Roads and Falling in Love with Hominids

 “Every time you think you know where an Ellen Klages story is going, she pulls another fast one. Wicked Wonders is fancy in every sense of the word.”
—Charlie Jane Anders, author of All the Birds in the Sky

“A shimmering cornucopia of language, emotion, and surprises rich with meaning.  No one gives us the terrible innocence and longings of childhood better than Ellen Klages. These stories are fabulous, in every sense of that multi-faceted word.”  
—Nancy Kress, author of After the Fall, Before the Fall, During the Fall

“Wicked Wonders will realign disparate parts of your heart into quantum sympathy. Read it. Read it now.”
—William Alexander, National Book Award-winning author of Goblin Secrets

“Stunning. She draws your eye to the waves at the shore then gathers the tide behind your back. Bradbury, Dahl, Jackson? No—simply incomparable Klages.” 
—Karen Lord, author of The Galaxy Game and The Best of All Possible Worlds

“Whenever I start to read a new story by the incomparable Ellen Klages, I feel as if I’m on the edge of my seat in the front row of the theater: keen-eyed and determined, this time, to pay close attention to the entire performance and figure out how she does it. I never do figure it out—her hands are too quick, too deft, and she seems to be everywhere at once . But that’s OK, the magic happens anyway, and bits of it still glitter on my shoulders as I re-enter my life, dazed and exhilarated, wiser and richer for the experience.”
—Andy Duncan, author of The Night Cache and The Pottawatomie Giant 

“Smart, often funny, and satisfyingly strange, these wicked stories will delight.”
—Jenny Blackford, author of Duties to my Cat and The Princess and the Slave

“Recaptures some of the innocence and enchantment of childhood, in a series of tales by turn evocative, romantic and poignant . . . In Klages’s fictional worlds, girls and women have the power to direct their lives, save others and, using mathematics and physics, push the boundaries of what is possible.” 
—The Idle Woman

“Absolutely gorgeous.” [10 out of 10 stars]
—Starburst

“Wicked Wonders is truly a wonderful collection of recent short fiction by Ellen Klages. It's a terrific introduction to her work.”
—The MT Void 

“Klages uses language very artfully. Her descriptions are very beautiful and rich, which leave the worlds she creates very well-painted.”
—SF Crowsnest 

“Reading Wicked Wonders is like looking through a box filled with heirloom jewelry and listening to their histories: each piece is special or significant in some way, and at least one story is likely to stay with you for one reason or another. I’ll be adding a copy of Wicked Wonders to my own library, with the intent of reading it many times in the future. Highly recommended.”
—Jana Nyman, Fantasy Literature

 “If you enjoy strong or subversive female protagonists in speculative fiction, this collection is for you!”
—Read Well Reviews

“Hugely enjoyable.”
—The Booklover’s Boudoir

“All of these stories have a strange little bend in them but the magic isn’t overwhelming, they are ‘curiouser and curiouser’ still.”
—Bookstalker

“Ms. Klages, you have a new fan.”
—The Writerly Reader

 “Wicked Wonders is marvelous. Klages has a unique world-view and her stories are both fresh and surprising. While reading this collection, I felt a range of emotions, from laughing to crying and everything in-between . . . Klages is the best “new-to-me” author discovery that I’ve made in a long time. I have a serious crush on her writing style.”
—Perpetually Booked

Praise for Passing Strange

[STARRED REVIEW] Klages folds history and the modern world into a thoroughly satisfying novella that’s rich in detail, warm in regard, and clever in execution.
―Publishers Weekly

"A moving and genuine love story."
―The Washington Post 

 “A tightly written plot and an unyielding sense of wonder . . . Passing Strange is a quick, enchanting read.”
―Romantic Times 

Praise for Portable Childhoods

“Ellen Klages believes books can be magic, and now she’s delivered the proof: this spell-weaving collection of her short stories. There are so many smart, sweet, funny, troubling treats here about so many things—childhood, chefs, God, barber shops, the atomic bomb—that it’s nearly impossible to pick a favorite. Just read them all! They’re great!”

—Connie Willis

“This collection will linger in the memory long after reading and should help garner a larger audience for Klages’s forthcoming second novel.”
—Publishers Weekly, starred review

“Klages creates wonder-filled and beautiful worlds in her short stories, making this a tremendously satisfying collection.”
—Booklist

“The kind of SF writer that comes along once in a decade . . . brilliant stories.”
—Cory Doctorow, BoingBoing.net

“If many of the stories in Portable Childhoods are not already classics in the field, they should be.”
—Charles de Lint, The Magazine of Fantasy & Science Fiction

Marketing and Publicity

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