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• Society's Child finalist for Distinguished Achievement in Production!

  The Audie Awards are the audible book industry's equivalent of music's Grammy Awards, and as such, the double nomination is a stunning achievement for a first-time narrator. We salute Stefan Rudnicki (producer and director), Ted Scott (post-production editing), and Janis for their nomination!!

  http://www.audiopub.org/resources/ABOTYDAP2013.pdf

  

• Janis Nominated For An Audie Award!

  We are proud to announce Janis has been nominated in the "Best Narration by Author" category. This is the only awards program in the United States devoted entirely to honoring spoken word entertainment.

  The Audio Publishers Association, a non-profit trade organization, was formed in 1987 and serves the audio book industry much as the Grammys serve the music industry, advocating high production and technical standards, serving as a networking and educational forum, and bringing together everyone involved in audiobooks.

  
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  Janis WINS the GRAMMY!

  We are thrilled to announce that Janis has won the 2013 GRAMMY award for "Best Spoken Word Album"! Up against Bill Clinton, Michelle Obama, Ellen Degeneres and Rachel Maddow, Janis' autobiography Society's Child took home the award.

  The audiobook is on sale in the store right now! It's available as a 12 hour / 10 CD package. You can also listen to samples from the audiobook and read more about it in the Reading Room.

  In honor of her GRAMMY win, Audible.com are offering a free 17 minute sample of the book! Look under the cover photo and press "Sample."

  You can also visit the Official Grammy website to watch video footage of the award presentation.

   

  

• Check The Latest Update!

  Visit the News Room for all the latest news on Janis. Visit the On Tour page for her current tour schedule.

  

• Janis' audiobook is a Booklist 2012 Editor's Choice!

  Booklist has chosen the audiobook "Society's Child: My Autobiography", recently nominated for a Best Spoken Word GRAMMY award, as part of it's 2012 Editor's Choice list. Booklist is the American Library Association's organ for reviews, interviews, and the like. It goes not just to libraries but to bookstores, schools, and other institutions all over the country. As someone who constantly gives thanks to the library system for what it has done, and continues to do, for her, Janis does whatever she can to promote them. This Editor's Choice is particularly appropriate - congratulations, Janis!

  
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  Janis receives 9th GRAMMY nomination!

  In a wonderful bookend to her first Grammy nomination (in 1966, for the album containing her song "Society's Child"), we are thrilled to announce that the audiobook of Janis' autobiography has been nominated for a GRAMMY award! The four other nominees in her category are Bill Clinton, Michelle Obama, Ellen Degeneres, and Rachel Maddow. We are extremely proud to be a part of this!!!

  

• New Free Downloads!

  We've posted several new free downloads on the Free Downloads page, including the full version of "I Am The One" as well as "Play Like A Girl" from the 2000 release "god & the fbi." Just right click on the download button to download the MP3 files.

  
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  New "Author's preferred" Kindle and paperback editions of Society's Child for overseas purchasers!

  I've just published a new Kindle edition of my autobiography, Society's Child, specifically for fans wanting to order outside North America. Up until now, your only option was to order through US outlets and pay heavy shipping - we fixed that now! Done in conjunction with Lucky Bat Books, it contains links to music and photos and more. And in our continuing effort to save you shipping costs, the trade paperback version should also be available on your local Amazon site. Just search for the 2012 Author's Preferred Edition of Society's Child.

  
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  Audible.com autobiography available now as CDs or digital download!

  Noted director Stefan Rudnicki worked with Janis on the Audible.com version of her autobiography, "Society's Child." In the works for more than three years, recording is finished and the audio book is now available, with Stefan saying he was "extremely pleased" with Janis' abilities as a reader. Says Janis, "It's a completely different world than recording music - harder in some ways, easier in others. But it's a thrill to know that the book is finally available in this format!!" The downloadable version is available now at Audible.com, and the physical CD version is available in the Shopping Mall. You go, girl!

  
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  Our "Christmas in August" sale is over!

  At last count we'd raised a little over $4,000 for the Pearl Foundation.

  Thanks to everyone who participated!!!

  We have donated over $550,000 to date, with plans to donate at least $60,000 more this year! Thanks to your efforts, we now have five perpetual scholarships running at Berea College, Goddard College, UT Knoxville, and Warren Wilson College NC. We are extremely proud to be a part of this effort, and thank every one of you for your support.

  
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  Free Story!

  In honor of the digital release of the Stars anthology, we are offering Janis' contribution ("Second Person Unmasked") for free reading, in the hopes that it will convince you to buy the book!

  Stars: Original Stories Based On the Songs Of Janis Ian received three "best" & seventeen honorable mentions (including Janis' story!) in Year's Best SF 2004, ed. by Gardner Dozois.

  The book also features Spider Robinson, David Gerrold, Robert Sawyer, Stephen Baxter, Nancy Kress, Howard Waldrop, Harry Turtledove.

  "This dazzling, highly original anthology, ignited by the meeting of songwriter Ian and a host of SF writers affected by her music at the 2001 Worldcon, showcases 30 mostly superior stories, each based on one of her songs. Some contributors take Ian at her word that science fiction is 'the jazz of prose,' responding to many of society's sharpest wounds with bittersweet improvisatory descants, like Terry Bisson in 'Come Dance with Me,' David Gerrold in 'Riding Janis' and Orson Scott Card in 'Inventing Lovers on the Phone,' tales that probe the angst of adolescence… The entire anthology seems to vibrate with the death throes of one world passing away, while far stranger ones struggle to be born. Their commonality, Ian tells us in her introduction, is that 'They have heart. They have life. They have truth.' No artist - nor any reader - could ask for more." - Publisher's Weekly

  

• Tickets for previously sold out shows available due to flood cancellations!

  Due to the flood, there are tickets available for several previously sold out shows. 

  
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  The "Tiny Mouse" has launched!

  Janis' song "The Tiny Mouse", (lyrics) written especially for The Boat Project, has become reality. The little wooden carving of a mouse, which inspired the song, has been placed at the top of the steering wheel on the boat, which will be touring the UK and going down the river Thames as part of the Olympic Ceremonies this summer.

  "It was an enormous honor to be one of only fifteen songwriters asked to participate in this project," said Janis. "Though I can't participate in the Olympics as a high jumper, my previous goal in life, 'The Tiny Mouse' has allowed me to play some small role in the festivities."

  An album of the songs has been created with more info here and here.

  You can pre-order at Amazon UK.

  It will be available on Amazon US and iTunes soon after.

  Lyrics are here.

   

  

• "Nothing Special," featuring "Days Like These" chosen for Academy of Motion Pictures collection!

  From the writer/director, Angela Garcia Combs:

  I am writing to share some exciting news about our film, "Nothing Special". The Academy of Motion Pictures Arts and Sciences, wrote to us to ask if they could include "Nothing Special" in their curated Permanent Core Collection. I was informed that they had tracked the film and felt it was worthy of inclusion in their permanent collection by virtue of its artistic and educational merit. The materials will be preserved and the script and film will be used as a teaching tool for new writers and filmmakers. It's a great honor to have achieved this kind of critical recognition, and I'd like to thank all the great talent that worked on this piece for your support, belief and the lending of your talent to achieve this unexpected recognition. Wonderful and worthy is your work, talent, and support, and I look forward to many more great collaborations and adventures.

  Very truly,
  Angela

  Angela Garcia Combs Writer/Director
  www.NothingSpecialtheMovie.com

   

  

• Download "Married in London" here!

  For those fans having troublefinding the download link, here it is:

  http://www.janisian.com/freedownloads.php

  Enjoy, and remember - it's fine with Janis if you send it to friends or post it on your site!

  

• Download "Married in London" free!

  "Married In London," Janis' wry look at gay marriage, is available for free download here. You can post it on your own site, or a social networking site, or use it for a wedding, or whatever you like. All we ask is that a) Janis be credited as the writer and singer and b) you don't make any money or receive another consideration for it.

  You can also watch a video of Janis doing the song here.

  Of course, a donation to the Pearl Foundation never hurts!

   

  
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  Janis featured in The London Times!

  Janis was recently featured in The London Times. David Sinclair wrote a glowing, four star review of her recent show at Cadogan Hall in London.

  Here's an excerpt from the review:

  "A teenage prodigy who enjoyed her first hit record when she was 15 and was a "has-been by the age of 16", Ian has since survived a succession of emotional trials and upheaveals to become the 60-year old grande dame of the singer-songwriter tendency that she is today. A short, silver-haired, Jewish woman from New Yor City, Ian stood alone on the stage - no sitting around for her. The show was all about the songs, the lyrics, the person; but posterity also demands a quick mention of her acoustic guitar. She played it so beautifully, with an attention to touch and tone far exceeding that of the great majority of singers accompanying themselves in this way. As she san encores of "Jesse" and "Stars" (there was) a joy among the audience that was palpable."

  You can read and/or download a clipping of the review here.

  

• Read Janis' library speech.

  Janis was recently honored to be asked to address the annual start-of-school convocation of Nashville school librarians. She spoke deeply and from the heart about what libraries have meant to her, both in and out of school, bringing many in the audience of several hundred to tears. A quote from the speech has been reprinted at the American Library Association's site, and the full text can be read on the Metro Nashville public school site here:

   

  
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  "Welcome Home" Wins 2010 Asimov's Readers Award!

  Janis' song "Welcome Home" has won the 2010 Asimov's Readers' Award for best poem! She joins (among others) fellow honorees Carol Emshwiller, Michael Swanwick, and Michael Whalen.

  Said Janis: "As a loyal Asimov's reader since the magazine began in 1977 - and also as a former neighbor of Isaac Asimov's in Manhattan - this is a wonderful honor. I wrote 'Welcome Home' from the heart, and I'm so glad the readers agreed!"

  See a list of all the winners.

  Read the lyrics.

  Free download.

  

• Yes, we got to donate $90,000!

  Just hit the Newsroom link on the home page to see what we're talking about! Outside of an impending trip to Japan, work with Kevin Eubanks and plans for a European tour, Janis and her fans were able to donate a stunning $90,000 in scholarship funds this year!

  
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  The Stars Anthology - now available as an eBook!

  Stars: Original Stories Based On The Songs Of Janis Ian is now available in eBook format from Barnes & Noble (and in a day or two, from Amazon on Kindle). This wonderful anthology, edited by Janis and Mike Resnick, features over thirty short stories from authors such as Tad Williams, Joe Haldeman, John Valey, Mercedes Lackey, Gregory Benford, Robert J. Sawyer and more. It received three "best" & seventeen honorable mentions (including Janis' story!) in Year's Best SF 2004, ed. by Gardner Dozois.

  "This dazzling, highly original anthology, ignited by the meeting of songwriter Ian and a host of SF writers affected by her music at the 2001 Worldcon, showcases 30 mostly superior stories, each based on one of her songs. Some contributors take Ian at her word that science fiction is 'the jazz of prose,' responding to many of society's sharpest wounds with bittersweet improvisatory descants, like Terry Bisson in 'Come Dance with Me,' David Gerrold in 'Riding Janis' and Orson Scott Card in 'Inventing Lovers on the Phone,' tales that probe the angst of adolescence… The entire anthology seems to vibrate with the death throes of one world passing away, while far stranger ones struggle to be born. Their commonality, Ian tells us in her introduction, is that 'They have heart. They have life. They have truth.' No artist - nor any reader - could ask for more." - Publisher's Weekly

  Download the book from Amazon or Barnes & Noble.

  

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