 James and Mendlesohn also edited "The Cambridge Companion to Fantasy Literature", released in 2012, and wrote "A Short History of Fantasy" in 2009.Her book "Rhetorics of Fantasy" won the BSFA award for best non-fiction book in 2009; the book was also nominated for Hugo and World Fantasy Awards.In 2010 she was nominated twice for the Best Related Book Hugo, for "The Inter-Galactic Playground