Title: The Reason for Not Going to the Ball (A Letter to Cinderella from Her Stepmother)

Title: The Reason for Not Going to the Ball (A Letter to Cinderella from Her Stepmother) Title Record # 59835
Author: Tanith Lee
Date: 1996-10-00
Type: SHORTFICTION
Length: short story
Language: English

Note: According to a letter by Gordon Van Gelder in Locus #440 (September 1997), one manuscript page was dropped from the text of this story when it was reprinted in The Year's Best Fantasy & Horror: Tenth Annual Collection, between the third and fourth paragraphs on page 47.

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Awards

Place	Year and Award	Category
Nominations Below Cutoff	1996 Tiptree / Otherwise	Gender-bending SF

Publications

Title	Date	Author/Editor	Publisher/Pub. Series	ISBN/Catalog ID	Price	Pages	Format	Type	Cover Artist
The Magazine of Fantasy & Science Fiction, October-November 1996	1996-10-00	ed. Kristine Kathryn Rusch	Mercury Press, Inc.		$4.50^?$: US dollar	244	digest^?Digest-size magazine, including both standard digest size, at about 7" by 4.5", and also large digest, such as recent issues of Asimov's, which are about 8.25" by 5.125".	mag	Ron Walotsky
The Year's Best Fantasy and Horror: Tenth Annual Collection	1997-07-00	ed. Ellen Datlow, Terri Windling	St. Martin's Press	0-312-15700-2	$29.95^?$: US dollar	c+ 538	hc^?Hardcover. Used for all hardbacks of any size.	anth	Thomas Canty
The Year's Best Fantasy and Horror: Tenth Annual Collection	1997-07-00	ed. Ellen Datlow, Terri Windling	St. Martin's Griffin	0-312-15701-0	$17.95^?$: US dollar	c+ 538	tp^?Trade paperback. Any softcover book which is at least 7.25" (or 19 cm) tall, or at least 4.5" (11.5 cm) wide/deep.	anth	Thomas Canty
Redder Than Blood	2017-04-04	Tanith Lee	DAW Books (DAW Collectors #1755)	978-0-7564-1251-7	$16.00^?$: US dollar	311	tp^?Trade paperback. Any softcover book which is at least 7.25" (or 19 cm) tall, or at least 4.5" (11.5 cm) wide/deep.	coll	Bastien Lecouffe Deharme
Redder Than Blood	2017-04-04	Tanith Lee	DAW Books	978-0-698-40466-3	$11.99^?$: US dollar		ebook^?Used for all electronic formats, including but not limited to EPUB, eReader, HTML, iBook, Mobipocket, and PDF.	coll	Bastien Lecouffe Deharme
The Year's Best Fantasy and Horror: Tenth Annual Collection	date unknown	ed. Ellen Datlow, Terri Windling	St. Martin's Griffin	0-312-15700-2		c+ 538	tp^?Trade paperback. Any softcover book which is at least 7.25" (or 19 cm) tall, or at least 4.5" (11.5 cm) wide/deep.	anth	Thomas Canty

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