Author's Blog

[Alia]

I was surfing Kate's site and found an author's blog, which she shares with other authors. Thought I would share for all of her fans.

http://www.deepgenre.com/wordpress/


Here are the author's that are included on the blog:

Constance Ash has written and edited sf/f, including the Nebula-nominated Flower Kiss and the Philip K. Dick award-nominated anthology Not of Woman Born. She uses her skills as a professional researcher for herself and others by digging into history, past and present. Electronic databases and xml-coded Finding Aids are among her (many) favorite things. She lives in NYC.
Carol Berg is the author of Geffen Award winner Transformation, and the other Books of the Rai-kirah – Revelation and Restoration – as well as The Bridge of D’Arnath Quartet and the 2004 Colorado Book Award winner Song of the Beast. Carol is a former software engineer who took up writing epic fantasy when her three sons started to need less of her time. The hobby grew into an obsession and then into a full time career. Carol camps, reads, writes, and laments the current state of politics, education, parenting, and common sense in Colorado.
Barbara Denz began writing early, but her first non-fiction story wasn’t bought until she was 25. Since then, she has written and edited technical documents and books for Microsoft and published 5 fantasy short stories in anthologies by Marion Zimmer Bradley and Katharine Kerr (all of which are currently out of print, of course). She is in the process of a long-researched first novel. “Sometimes you just have to bite the bullet and write the sucker.” When not writing, she sings in 2 Celtic music groups (Crooked Mile in Washington state and Port na Gael in Port Moody, BC, Canada) and is learning to paint, and VERY much looking forward to retirement!
David Louis Edelman is the author of the SF business novel Infoquake. Over the past ten years, he has programmed websites for the U.S. Army and the FBI, taught software to the U.S. Congress and the World Bank, written articles for the Washington Post and Baltimore Sun, and directed the marketing departments of biometric and e-commerce companies. He lives near Washington, D.C., and implores you to buy Infoquake in bulk quantities so he never has to do any of those things again.
Kate Elliott is the author of Spirit Gate, coming in October 2006. She has also written Crown of Stars, a seven volume fantasy novel starting with King’s Dragon, and The Novels of the Jaran, and has co-authored The Golden Key with Melanie Rawn and Jennifer Roberson. In her real life as Alis Rasmussen, she is particularly interested in history, archaeology, religion, exercise, and the joy of twins and schnauzers. Or you could talk to her about leyning. She lives in Hawaii.
Katharine Kerr is well known on both sides of the low, meandering stone wall that separates High Fantasy from Science Fiction. Her epic Deverry series has won her millions of fans around the world. Her SF novels include Snare, Polar City Blues, and Resurrection. A native of Ohio, she has lived in the Bay Area since Time began, back in the 1960s. Her latest Deverry novel, The Gold Falcon, is now available in the UK and will be published in the USA in July.
Kevin Andrew Murphy is one of the Wild Cards writers, has written novels, short stories and games for White Wolf’s World of Darkness and others. His most recent publications are a sestina in last December’s First Things (slated for reprint in next winter’s Iduna), a sonnet in this spring’s issue of Court Green, and a short adventure for World Works Games. He’s currently working on a Wild Cards roleplaying adaptation for Theatrix. His most recent novels are Drum Into Silence from Tor, Fathom from iBooks, and Penny Dreadful from White Wolf, the last currently a free download at www.white-wolf.com/pennydreadful/home.html.
Sherwood Smith Latest works are Inda coming out from DAW (second published book in a life-long project, first adult one) and Trouble Under Oz, a continuation of L. Frank Baum’s Oz books, coming out from Harper/Collins. Blog name on LiveJournal Sartorias, where I gas on about writing and reading.
Lois Tilton’s fiction has been nominated in the past for the Nebula, Sturgeon and Sidewise Awards, but as there is currently no demand for it in the marketplace, she is no longer writing any. Instead she is now the short fiction reviewer at the Internet Review of Science Fiction: www.irosf.com.

[Teresa Edgerton]

I count eight other authors in the description you posted, Alia.

Not to drop names, but all except Berg and Edelman are local writers (Kate Elliott used to be) and/or used to particpate in the long-defunct and much-mourned Science Fiction Round Table on GEnie. So I can vouch for the fact that there are some very interesting people in that group, both as writers and as knowledgable and eloquent individuals.

[Alia]

I'll change it, Teresa. Thanks for the heads up.

When I wrote the post I was going off of Kate's forum for the information and forgot to change it when I saw the difference. Actually to be honest, I forgot I wrote 5...

I actually think this is a neat idea, writer's blogs. Do you have one Teresa?

[Teresa Edgerton]

Nope. I spend so much time here, there probably wouldn't be enough left over for a blog.

[Alia]

Originally Posted by Teresa Edgerton

Nope. I spend so much time here, there probably wouldn't be enough left over for a blog.

And we are grateful you are here...

[Teresa Edgerton]

So am I ... well, most of the time. Obsessive behavior takes its toll.

I am glad to see that Lois Tilton hasn't completely vanished since she stopped writing fiction. She was a wonderful writer, and wrote several award-nominated short stories, but she never had any success with her novels, and the bad luck there eventually rubbed off.

As a Tilton partisan, I can't help thinking that the reading public has a lot to answer for.

Sherwood Smith wrote one of my favorite YA novels ever. (Actually two novels, which I read in an omnibus edition.)

The others are all worthy and fascinating individuals, too.

[Lunatic]

I really meant to post about this when it first came out, but I never got around to it. Guess I'm just lazy...

There has been some interesting discussion there though, and I do remember some people taking issue with the concept of 'deep' genre.