Email us: Teresa and Patrick.

Our weblog: Making Light. See also: Boing Boing and Tor.com.

Recent and forthcoming books we’ve edited.

Next Whisperado gig: Wednesday, October 8, 8 PM, at Kenny’s Castaways, 157 Bleecker Street, New York City.

Buy Whisperado’s debut CD.

We edit books, mostly but not exclusively science fiction and fantasy, for Tor Books. Here’s a list of recent and forthcoming books we’ve worked on. In 2006, Robert Charles Wilson’s Spin, edited by Teresa, won the Hugo Award for best SF novel, while John Scalzi, discovered and edited by Patrick, won the John W. Campbell Award for Best New Writer. Meanwhile, Terry Goodkind’s Phantom, edited by Patrick, was a #1 New York Times bestseller, and Dzur by Steven Brust, edited by Teresa, also made the Times bestseller list. In 2007, Jo Walton’s Farthing, edited by Patrick, was a finalist for the Nebula Award, the Locus Award, the Sidewise Award, and (alongside Ken MacLeod’s The Execution Channel, also edited by Patrick) the Quill Award. It also won the Romantic Times Reviewer’s Choice Award for Best SF Novel. Also in 2007, Ben Bova’s Titan, edited by Patrick, won the John W. Campbell Memorial Award for best SF novel of the year. On September 1, 2007, at the 65th World Science Fiction Convention, in Yokohama, Japan, Patrick was stunned to find himself being presented with the Hugo Award for Best Editor, Long Form. New York Times bestsellers in 2007 included Off Armageddon Reef by David Weber and Confessor by Terry Goodkind. In 2008, John Scalzi’s The Last Colony was a finalist for the Hugo Award; Harry Turtledove’s The Gladiator (edited by Teresa) and Jo Walton’s Ha’penny (edited by Patrick; the sequel to Farthing) jointly won the Prometheus Award; and Emma Bull’s Territory (edited by Patrick) was a finalist for the World Fantasy Award. Also in 2008, two of Patrick’s titles made bestseller lists: David Weber’s By Schism Rent Asunder was on the New York Times list for two weeks, and Cory Doctorow’s Little Brother spent four weeks on the Booksense bestseller list, made the Publishers Weekly YA bestseller list for two months in a row, and spent seven weeks on the Times list. We think all of our authors are awesome.

We teach writing. Every year, we’re among the instructors at Viable Paradise on fabulous Martha’s Vineyard. Together and separately we’ve also taught at a variety of other workshops. In 2007, for the second time, Patrick taught a week at Clarion West. We think one of the Clarions should invite us to teach as a team. We’re particularly ready for the call from this one.

Like everyone else with a pulse, we’re trying to suss out the Internet. Teresa is an Account Manager at Federated Media, where she deploys her online community-engineering skills in the service of various FM clients, most notably uberblog Boing Boing, where she’s the manager and moderator of their comment section. You can read her recent writing on Boing Boing linked from her profile on the site. Meanwhile, Patrick is now the editorial director of newly-launched original-fiction-and-art-venue/group-blog/SF-news-and-discussion-site/amorphous-web-2.0-venture Tor.com. Where is all this ubiquitous internetworking leading? We don’t know, but it’s an interesting ride so far.

Patrick occasionally edits anthologies. His Starlight series of original anthologies won the World Fantasy Award, and individual stories in it won the Hugo and Nebula awards. Among the many distinguished stories in the series were the debut appearances of Susanna Clarke and Greg van Eekhout. Wrote Kirkus: “Superior…There hasn’t been an original anthology series so consistently satisfying since Damon Knight’s Orbit.” More recently, Patrick edited the YA-oriented reprint volumes New Skies and New Magics, and (with Jane Yolen) The Year’s Best Science Fiction and Fantasy for Teens. VOYA called New Skies “the finest collection of SF short stories published specifically for young adult readers in recent memory”; Locus called New Skies and New Magics “a first-rate selection of some of the best short SF and fantasy of recent years”; and Booklist called the Year’s Best a “strong, accessible collection...of real appeal to teen readers.”

Patrick also plays guitar and sometimes sings, most recently in a band called Whisperado, which consists of three New York guys with day jobs who write and play songs about the American essentials: bowling, capitalism, and demanding women. Whisperado’s sound has been variously described as “rootsy,” “acceptable,” and “loud.” A couple of sample songs can be downloaded here and here. You can buy their debut CD for $8, shipping inclusive, by clicking the button below. New album coming soon.

Teresa writes. Some of her essays have been collected in a volume called Making Book. With Ken Fisher of Ars Technica, she is currently writing a book for O’Reilly Media about online community management. “Teresa Nielsen Hayden is a bloody good writer.” (—David Langford)

Patrick is unsure how he wound up with a minor career writing introductions to other people’s books, but they’re all good books.

With the help of co-bloggers James D. Macdonald, Avram Grumer, and Abi Sutherland—and in the fond memory of our late co-blogger John M. Ford—we maintain a weblog: Making Light. Check out the outstanding comment sections. We’re extravagantly proud of our readers.

—really is Nielsen Hayden, not “Hayden” or “Nielsen-Hayden”. Read about it.

We’ll both be at Cory Doctorow and D J Spooky’s benefit event for the Comic Book Legal Defense Fund, Thursday, August 21 at 7:30 PM, at the Helen Mills Theater, 137-139 West 26th Street, New York City.

We’ll both be teaching at the annual Viable Paradise SF writing workshop on Martha’s Vineyard, held in 2008 from September 21 through 26. This year’s other instructors will be Elizabeth Bear, Debra Doyle, Steven Gould, James D. Macdonald, Laura Mixon, and John Scalzi.

Whisperado will play at Kenny's Castaways, 157 Bleecker St, NYC, at 8 PM on Wednesday, October 8.

We’ll certainly be at Boskone, February 13-15, in Boston, Massachusetts; aside from the fact that it’s one of our favorite annual conventions, this particular Boskone includes, among its guests of honor, the brilliant novelist and salonnière Jo Walton and Tor’s extraordinary art director Irene Gallo.

We’ll also be at 2009’s Fourth Street Fantasy Convention, June 19-21 in Minneapolis, details to be determined.

We’re the Toastmasters for Westercon 62, July 2-5, 2009, in Tempe, Arizona.

And we’ll definitely be at Anticipation, the 67th World Science Fiction Convention, August 6-10 in Montreal, Quebec, Canada.

—with Patrick, one conducted by Darrell Schweitzer in late 2000, and published in the Bulletin of the Science Fiction Writers of America, and another conducted by Ernest Lilley in 2004 and finally published, suitably updated, in 2007. Lots of commentary about the state of SF publishing.

—deploying semi-automatic weapons, and semiotic ones too; also writing pseudonymous afterwords.

Toronto, 1983: the authors pose for their Velvet Underground album-cover shot.

Tucson, 2004: Not Dead Yet.

(Photo credits: Jas and Jan Hayden, respectively.)