Category: story collection

Wired.com Interview plus “Babelzine 3”

  By alternate history, Book View Café, collection, fantasy, fantasy fiction, historical fiction, publishing, science fiction, short stories, story collection, Words

Sometimes when it rains it pours. As an example, today I wrapped up the revisions of the second RHYMER novel (yay me). And:

  1. An Interview I did with Wired.com’s Geek’s Guide to the Galaxy went live. The interview discusses Rhymer, but also a number of short stories contained in my first collection, recently reprinted in ebook format as The Girlfriends of Dorian Gray & Other Stories, at Book View Café.
  2. I received by mail a copy of Babelzine Vol. 3, a Japanese fantasy & science fiction magazine containing a translation of one of those stories, “Madonna of the Maquiladora.” (See below)

A nice way to start July.
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Author-editor-lawyer-speaker Michael Ventrella on the Oddcast this week

  By anthology, editing, fantasy, fantasy fiction, horror fiction, non-fiction, on writing, publishing, story collection, teaching writing, writing workshops

On the Oddcast this week we interview Michael Ventrella: author, editor, speaker, and lawyer. His latest non-fiction book is How to Argue the Constitution with a Conservative from Gray Rabbit Publications, featuring artwork from Pulitzer-Prize winning editorial cartoonist Darrin Bell. Anthologies include Baker Street Irregulars (co-edited with New York Times Bestselling Author Jonathan Maberry) and, most recently, Across the Universe, a Beatles-themed anthology (co-edited with Randee Dawn) from Fantastic Books. He also heads the Pocono Liars Club. Among other things, Ventrella discusses why you want to refresh yourself on the Constitution, and what it means to write books about The Monkees. With the Oddcast Irregulars: Gregory Frost, Jon McGoran, Kelly Simmons, Merry Jones and Keith Strunk.

Michael Ventrella Oddcast

Gavin Grant Entertains & Informs the Oddcast

  By anthology, book stores, collection, editing, fantasy fiction, horror fiction, Karen Joy Fowler, on writing, publishing, reading, science fiction, short stories, story collection, Words

This week a terrific interview with award-winning publisher/editor/and now bookstore owner (Book Moon) Gavin J. Grant. His publishing house, Small Beer Press, started in 2000 with a story collection, Stranger Things Happen, which Salon named a “Book of the Year,” and The Village Voice proclaimed as one of its 25 Best Books. He offers sage advice on navigating the mad world of publishing in the 21st century, and speaks to the return of the brick-and-mortar bookstore.

Gavin Grant, photographed by Adrianne Mathiowetz.