Jack's anthology Wizards, co-edited with Gardner Dozois and published as Dark Alchemy in Australia and the UK, has been shortlisted for the Shirley Jackson Award.

 

In recognition of the legacy of Shirley Jackson's writing, and with the permission of the author's estate, the Shirley Jackson Awards have been established for outstanding achievement in the literature of psychological suspense, horror, and the dark fantastic.

Jack's bestselling novel THE MEMORY CATHEDRAL has been sold to the Latvian publisher Jumava. THE MEMORY CATHEDRAL is published in Germany, Spain, Estonia, Korea, Romania, Poland, Russia, and Portugal, as well as in the US and Australia. There is also a talking book edition for the sight-impared.

Jack's story "Rings Around the Moon," originally published in Polyphony 3 and reprinted in Jack's collection PROMISED LAND, has been shortlisted for The Darrell Award, Best Midsouth novella. THE REBEL, Jack's James Dean novel, won the Darrell Award for Best Midsouth novel in 2005.

Jack has turned in DREAMING AGAIN to HarperCollins. DREAMING AGAIN is the sequel to DREAMING DOWN-UNDER, which won the World Fantasy Award and an Australian Ditmar Award. DREAMING AGAIN is scheduled for publication in July, 2008.

 

Here is an advanced peek at the table of contents:

 

Introduction: Dreaming Again

JACK DANN

Old Friends

GARTH NIX

A Guided Tour In the Kingdom of the Dead

RICHARD HARLAND

This Is My Blood

BEN FRANCISCO and CHRIS LYNCH

Nightship

Kim Westwood

The Fooly

TERRY DOWLING

Neverland Blues

ADAM BROWN

The Jacaranda Wife

A. G. SLATTER

The Constant Past

SEAN MCMULLEN

The Forest

KIM WILKINS

Robots and Zombies, Inc.

LUCY SUSSEX

This Way to the Exit

SARA DOUGLASS

Grimes and the Gaijin Daimyo

A. BERTRAM CHANDLER

Lure

PAUL COLLINS

The Empire

SIMON BROWN

Lakeside

CHRISTOPHER GREEN

Trolls’ Night Out

JENNY BLACKFORD

The Rest Is Silence

AARON STERNS

Smoking, Waiting For the Dawn

JASON NAHRUNG

The Lanes of Camberwell

CECILIA DART-THORNTON

Lost Arts

STEPHEN DEDMAN

Undead Camels Ate Their Flesh

JASON FISCHER

Europa

CECILY SCUTT

Riding On the Q-ball

ROSALEEN LOVE

In From the Snow

LEE BATTERSBY

The Lost Property Room

TRUDI CANAVAN

Heere Be Monsters

JOHN BIRMINGHAM

Purgatory

ROWENA CORY DANIELLS

Manannan’s Children

RUSSELL BLACKFORD

The Fifth Star in the Southern Cross

MARGO LANAGAN

Twilight in Caeli-Amur

RJURIK DAVIDSON

Paradise Design’d

JANEEN WEBB

The New Deal

TRENT JAMIESON

Conquist

DIRK STRASSER

The Last Great House of Isla Tortuga

PETER M. BALL

Perchance To Dream

ISOBELLE CARMODY

The Russion publisher Exmo has renewed their contract to continue publishing Jack's bestselling novel about Leondardo da Vinci, The Memory Cathedral.

 

The Czech publisher Triton will be publishing Wizards, the anthology Jack co-edited with Gardner Dozois.