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KIT REED discusses her new novel WHERE, together with SCOTT O'CONNOR

Where (Tor Books)

In a coastal town on the Outer Carolina Banks, David Ribault and Merrill Poulnot are trying to revive their stale relationship. Meanwhile, a slick developer claiming to be related to a historic town hero, Rawson Steele, has come to town and is buying up property. Steele makes a romantic advance on Merrill and an unusual 5am appointment outside of town with David. But Steele is a no-show, and at the time of the appointment everyone in the town disappears, removed entirely from our space and time to a featureless isolated village - including Merrill and her young son.

Born into a Navy family, Kit Reed moved so often as a kid that she never settled down in one place, and she doesn't know whether that's a good thing or not. It's a very good thing in its relationship to, Where, in which the entire population of a small island vanishes.

As a kid she spent two years in the tidelands of South Carolina-- in Beaufort and on Parris Island, both landmarks on the Inland Waterway. Her fiction covers territory variously labeled speculative fiction/science fiction/literary fiction, with stops at stations in between that include horror, dystopian SF, psychothrillers and black comedy, making her "transgenred."

Recent novels are Son of Destruction and, from Tor, Enclave, The Baby Merchant and the ALA award-winning Thinner Than Thou. Her stories appear in venues ranging from Asimov's SF and The Magazine of Fantasy and Science Fiction to The Yale Review, The Kenyon Review and The Norton Anthology. Her newest collection is The Story Until Now: A Great Big Book of Stories, from the Wesleyan University Press. She was twice nominated for the Shirley Jackson Award and the Tiptree Award. A Guggenheim fellow, Reed is Resident Writer at Wesleyan University, and serves on the board of The Authors League Fund.

Scott O’Connor is the author of the novella Among Wolves, and the novels Untouchable and Half World, which is now out in paperback. Additional work has appeared in Zyzzyva, The Rattling Wall, and The Los Angeles Review of Books, and has been nominated for the 2015 Sunday Times/EFG Short Story Prize. He lives with his family in Los Angeles.

Kit Reed photo by Gloria Villegas

Scott O'Connor photo by Peter Konerko

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