In 1995, she attended acclaimed sci-fi bootcamp Clarion East Writing Workshop she’s since returned to teach there. Link’s first adult collection in a decade, Get in Trouble reflects the varied career built in the interim. 1 was bumper to bumper all the way to Plantation Key,” writes Link (who’s originally from Miami). Some cult had thrown all the infidels out of a popular pocket universe. A local gas station had been robbed by invisible men. woman had given birth to half a dozen rabbits.
To fantasy, for “The Summer People,” the spooky tale of lodgers who exact extreme fealty from their caregivers-or horror, for that matter. Oh, the places Get in Trouble could go! To the sci-fi section, for “Valley of the Girls,” in which privileged kids get pyramids and professional doppelgängers. Go out there and end up in weird places, book,” Link says.
“Occasionally I get email from people that say that they’ve seen Magic for Beginners in the how-to section, or in the magic section, and I think: This is great. They’ve been creatively shelved at bookstores. Her books have been categorized as fantasy, horror, mystery, magic realism, slipstream and science fiction. Link ( Magic for Beginners, 2005) is the celebrated author of wonder-filled short stories for adult and YA audiences. But that’s only the first way it’s unlike most collections. Unlike most story collections, Kelly Link’s Get in Trouble does not take its title from a short story therein.
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