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Alethea Kontis

January 11, 1976 (age 50)

Birth place: Burlington, Vermont, USA

56 works in English-language magazines

Date Page Type Title Magazine
September 2005 121 Interview Brian Keene Interviewed Apex Science Fiction & Horror Digest #3, Fall 2005
September 2005 114 Essay Keeping Your Friends Close and Your Fears Closer Apex Science Fiction & Horror Digest #3, Fall 2005
December 2005 111 Essay Geek Chick Summer: A Life in Conventions Apex Science Fiction & Horror Digest #4, Winter 2005
March 2006 87 Essay Happy Birthday to Me Apex Science Fiction & Horror Digest #5, Spring 2006
March 2006 104 Interview Interview: Sherrilyn Kenyon Apex Science Fiction & Horror Digest #5, Spring 2006
April 2006 47 Review Elemental Locus, #543 April 2006
May 2006 31 Review Elemental: The Tsunami Relief Anthology Vector 247
June 2006 89 Essay Once Upon a Horror Apex Science Fiction & Horror Digest #6, Summer 2006
September 2006 107 Essay Much Ado About Driving Apex Science Fiction & Horror Digest #7, Fall 2006
October 2006 Short Fiction Small Magics Orson Scott Card's Intergalactic Medicine Show, #3, October 2006
October 2006 46 Short Fiction Sunday Realms of Fantasy, October 2006
December 2006 109 Essay Blood Oath, Take One Apex Science Fiction & Horror Digest #8, Winter 2006
March 2007 118 Essay Kill Me Then Apex Science Fiction and Horror Digest, #9
March 2007 102 Interview What Wouldn't Kevin J. Anderson Do? Apex Science Fiction and Horror Digest, #9
July 2007 20 Review Elemental The New York Review of Science Fiction, July 2007
July 2007 16 Interview Interview: Patrick Rothfuss Subterranean Online, Summer 2007
October 2007 151 Short Fiction Route 666: Road Trip to World Horror 2007 Apex Science Fiction and Horror Digest, #10
November 2007 118 Essay Curses of Nature Apex Science Fiction and Horror Digest, #11
2008 180 Essay Making Dynamite Apex Science Fiction and Horror Digest, #12
April 2008 8 Interview Interview: with Sherrilyn Kenyon Subterranean Online, Spring 2008
July 2008 Short Fiction Blood & Water Orson Scott Card's Intergalactic Medicine Show, #9, July 2008
September 2008 11 Interview Jay Lake: For Real Subterranean Online, Summer 2008
September 2008 Essay White Girl Clarkesworld Magazine, September 2008
November 2008 9 Interview Something About Mary: An Interview with Mary Robinette Kowal Subterranean Online, Fall 2008
2009 13 Essay Teen Angel, Dark Weird Tales, Fall 2009
February 2009 52 Essay Monster in the Closet Apex Magazine, February 2009
October 2009 |1 Short Fiction A Poor Man's Roses Apex Magazine Issue 4, October 2009
January 2010 Short Fiction The Giant and the Unicorn Shimmer, Number 11
August 2010 9 Short Fiction Diary of a Ghost's Mistress Shroud: The Quarterly Journal of Dark Fiction and Art, Summer 2010
October 2010 9 Short Fiction Red Lantern Shroud: The Quarterly Journal of Dark Fiction and Art, Autumn 2010
June 2011 Short Fiction Blue and Gray & Black and Green Cast Macabre, CM40
July 2011 Short Fiction The Unicorn Tree Cast of Wonders, Episode 2
November 2011 Short Fiction Counterclockwise Orson Scott Card's Intergalactic Medicine Show, #25, November 2011
December 2011 |7 Short Fiction Hero Worship Enchanted Conversation, December 2011
May 2012 Essay The Fairy Tale in the TV Age Clarkesworld Magazine, May 2012
July 2012 31 Review Enchanted Locus, #618 July 2012
December 2012 Interview An Interview with Alethea Kontis Apex Magazine, December 2012
December 2012 Short Fiction Blood from Stone Apex Magazine, December 2012
March 2013 Essay Original Sin Clarkesworld Magazine, March 2013
September 2013 Essay I Am an Endangered Species Clarkesworld Magazine, September 2013
September 2013 Short Fiction The Monster & Mrs. Blake Cast of Wonders, Episode 97
November 2013 Short Fiction Black Hole Sun Cast of Wonders, Episode 105
September 2014 Essay The Best of All Possible Worlds Clarkesworld Magazine, September 2014
April 2015 129 Essay The Precious Five-Star and the Reviewers of Mount Doom Clarkesworld Magazine, April 2015
October 2015 125 Essay Love Song for a Saturday Morning Clarkesworld, October 2015
June 2016 136 Essay Publishing — Jump In, the Water's Fine Clarkesworld, June 2016
October 2017 |9 Short Fiction Haven, Kansas (excerpt) Apex Magazine, October 2017
December 2017 |10 Essay What Authors Owe Us Clarkesworld, December 2017
April 2018 135 Essay Breathing Life Into Characters Clarkesworld, April 2018
September 2018 129 Essay Softly Dying Darlings, and How to Deal with Them Clarkesworld, September 2018
December 2018 40 Essay The Princess and the Quest Apex Magazine, December 2018
February 2019 Short Fiction Sweetheart Come Orson Scott Card's Intergalactic Medicine Show, February 2019
March 2019 Short Fiction Well-Behaved Mermaids Rarely Make Fairy Tales Toasted Cake, #214
May 2019 134 Essay It's All Fun and Games Clarkesworld, May 2019
August 2021 Short Fiction The Invisible Girl The Arcanist, 6 August 2021
December 2023 53 Poem In Case of Emergency Worlds of Possibility, December 2023

33 English-language books

Year Type Title Author(s)
2006 Anthology Elemental: The Tsunami Relief Anthology: Stories of Science Fiction and Fantasy Steven Savile & Alethea Kontis
2007 Nonfiction Sherrilyn Kenyon's Dark Hunter Handbook Sherrilyn Kenyon & Alethea Kontis
2007 Nonfiction The Dark-Hunter Companion Sherrilyn Kenyon & Alethea Kontis
2011 Chapbook The God of Last Moments Alethea Kontis
2011 Chapbook The Monster & Mrs. Blake Alethea Kontis
2012 Novel Enchanted Alethea Kontis
2013 Novel Hero Alethea Kontis
2013 Collection Wild & Wishful, Dark & Dreaming: The Worlds of Alethea Kontis Alethea Kontis
2015 Novel Dearest Alethea Kontis
2015 Collection Tales of Arilland Alethea Kontis
2015 Novel Trixter Alethea Kontis
2016 Chapbook For Angels to Fly Alethea Kontis
2016 Novel Haven, Kansas Alethea Kontis
2016 Novel Trix & the Faerie Queen Alethea Kontis
2016 Collection Wild & Wishful, Dark & Dreaming Alethea Kontis
2017 Chapbook A Poor Man's Roses Alethea Kontis
2017 Chapbook Alligator Baby Alethea Kontis
2017 Chapbook Counterclockwise Alethea Kontis
2017 Chapbook Red Lantern Alethea Kontis
2017 Chapbook Savage Planet Alethea Kontis
2017 Chapbook Small Magics Alethea Kontis
2017 Chapbook The Giant and the Unicorn Alethea Kontis
2017 Chapbook The Simi's ABCs Sherrilyn Kenyon & Alethea Kontis
2017 Novel The Truth about Cats and Wolves Alethea Kontis
2017 Chapbook The Unicorn Tree Alethea Kontis
2017 Chapbook The Way of the Restless Alethea Kontis
2017 Chapbook The Were Four Alethea Kontis
2017 Chapbook The Witch of Black Mountain Alethea Kontis
2017 Novel When Tinker Met Bell Alethea Kontis
2018 Novel Besphinxed Alethea Kontis
2018 Chapbook The Glass Mountain: A Tale of Arilland Alethea Kontis
2018 Chapbook The Unicorn Hunter Alethea Kontis
2019 Collection The Little Witch and Wizard Alethea Kontis

YearAwardCategoryTitleStatus
2013 Andre Norton Award for Young Adult Science Fiction and Fantasy Andre Norton Award Enchanted Nominee
2014 Andre Norton Award for Young Adult Science Fiction and Fantasy Andre Norton Award Hero Nominee
2016 Dragon Award Best Young Adult / Middle Grade Novel Trix & the Faerie Queen Nominee
2018 Dragon Award Best Young Adult / Middle Grade Novel When Tinker Met Bell Nominee
2019 Scribe Award Young Adult / Middle Grade Besphinxed Winner
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