Sharyn November
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Sharyn November is an American editor of books for children and teenagers. She is Senior Editor for Viking Children's Books and Editorial Director of Firebird Books, which is a mainly paperback (reprint) imprint publishing fantasy and science fiction for teenagers and adults. Her many authors include the late Lloyd Alexander (who was also her godfather), Laurie Halse Anderson, John Barnes, Peter S. Beagle, Clare Bell, T.C. Boyle, Pamela Dean, Charles de Lint, Carol Emshwiller, Elizabeth Hand, Nina Kiriki Hoffman, Diana Wynne Jones, Graham Joyce, Ellen Klages, Kelly Link, Pat Murphy, Sara Ryan, Delia Sherman, Sharon Shinn, Megan Whalen Turner, and the editorial team of Ellen Datlow and Terri Windling.
She is one of the few children's book editors who works directly with teenagers; their love of speculative fiction was the seed of her founding Firebird Books, which launched in January 2002.
She was named a 2004 and 2005 World Fantasy Award Finalist in the Professional category -- in 2004 for Firebird Books, in 2005 for editing. Firebirds Rising is a 2007 Finalist in the Anthology category.
She is a Guest of Honor at Conflux, the Australian Science Fiction convention, in Canberra in 2008.
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- Firebirds Rising: An Anthology of Original Science Fiction and Fantasy (editor) (2006) (includes Francesca Lia Block, Emma Bull, Kara Dalkey, Pamela Dean, Charles de Lint, Carol Emshwiller, Alan Dean Foster, Alison Goodman, Nina Kiriki Hoffman, Diana Wynne Jones, Ellen Klages, Tanith Lee, Kelly Link, Patricia A. McKillip, Sharon Shinn, Tamora Pierce)
