It's been suggested I should tell you about myself.
• What genres do you write?
It used to be called "urban fantasy", now I think it's called "adult contemporary fantasy" but I could be wrong. My stories are set in the current day, both of them in upstate New York along the Hudson Valley.
• What do you like to read?
Oh my, that's a difficult question.
I like what I like. That generally does not include horror, mysteries, biographies, autobiographies, thrillers or romance novels. I read a lot (A LOT) of fantasy and science fiction as a kid, but kind of ... stopped ... for a while, before getting up to speed again. I love to read fairy tales, philosophy, bizarro stuff (I loved the Southern Reach Triology), left-of-center fiction (early Jonathan Lethem, the occasional Murakami, early Perez-Reverte), and the classics (Alfred Bester, R.A. Lafferty, Jack Vance). I have a small shrine on my bookshelf to Flann O'Brien right next to similar shrines to Italo Calvino, Jeff Noon (Vurt changed my life) and Steve Aylett. I remember reading John Bellairs' The Face in the Frost like it was yesterday. No matter how many times I read Little, Big, I can't keep it in my head. I'm still preparing myself to read Gormenghast. I read Neuromancer every year whether I need to or not. I am rationing Cordwainer Smith's books because I can't bear to run out of his words.
And I gobble every last one of Charles Stross' Laundry Files books when they appear.
My favorite books of the last few years were Gideon the Ninth (I'm still fighting my way through the sequel, sadly), A City Dreaming, and the most recent Laundry Files books.
• How long have you been writing?
I've been writing all my life, including 24 years of Amber fan fiction and towering stacks of corporate marketing garbage and presentations so tall they'd crush you if one fell on you.
18 months ago I gave up on fan fiction and began to write my own stories. I finished editing that first book in the spring, and I'm hard at work on a new project. If You'd Like To Learn More I'd Be Happy To Tell You.
• Do you beta read?
Yes. Yes I do. I would also welcome being part of a critique circle where I can learn something. I'm "actively querying" and gosh, it's making me old. Well, maybe old-er.
• Do you have any particular hobbies? Are you expert in any particular field or craft?
I am an expert at public speaking, product and program management, and I am accomplished at signing, piano playing, humility, repeating myself and piano playing. I can grow garlic, fold fitted sheets, confit duck, sing in tune on-demand, and yet, with all that, I do not know the way to San Jose. Oh, and I tell dad jokes.
I'm on the twitter too.
Cheers!
bob
• What genres do you write?
It used to be called "urban fantasy", now I think it's called "adult contemporary fantasy" but I could be wrong. My stories are set in the current day, both of them in upstate New York along the Hudson Valley.
• What do you like to read?
Oh my, that's a difficult question.
I like what I like. That generally does not include horror, mysteries, biographies, autobiographies, thrillers or romance novels. I read a lot (A LOT) of fantasy and science fiction as a kid, but kind of ... stopped ... for a while, before getting up to speed again. I love to read fairy tales, philosophy, bizarro stuff (I loved the Southern Reach Triology), left-of-center fiction (early Jonathan Lethem, the occasional Murakami, early Perez-Reverte), and the classics (Alfred Bester, R.A. Lafferty, Jack Vance). I have a small shrine on my bookshelf to Flann O'Brien right next to similar shrines to Italo Calvino, Jeff Noon (Vurt changed my life) and Steve Aylett. I remember reading John Bellairs' The Face in the Frost like it was yesterday. No matter how many times I read Little, Big, I can't keep it in my head. I'm still preparing myself to read Gormenghast. I read Neuromancer every year whether I need to or not. I am rationing Cordwainer Smith's books because I can't bear to run out of his words.
And I gobble every last one of Charles Stross' Laundry Files books when they appear.
My favorite books of the last few years were Gideon the Ninth (I'm still fighting my way through the sequel, sadly), A City Dreaming, and the most recent Laundry Files books.
• How long have you been writing?
I've been writing all my life, including 24 years of Amber fan fiction and towering stacks of corporate marketing garbage and presentations so tall they'd crush you if one fell on you.
18 months ago I gave up on fan fiction and began to write my own stories. I finished editing that first book in the spring, and I'm hard at work on a new project. If You'd Like To Learn More I'd Be Happy To Tell You.
• Do you beta read?
Yes. Yes I do. I would also welcome being part of a critique circle where I can learn something. I'm "actively querying" and gosh, it's making me old. Well, maybe old-er.
• Do you have any particular hobbies? Are you expert in any particular field or craft?
I am an expert at public speaking, product and program management, and I am accomplished at signing, piano playing, humility, repeating myself and piano playing. I can grow garlic, fold fitted sheets, confit duck, sing in tune on-demand, and yet, with all that, I do not know the way to San Jose. Oh, and I tell dad jokes.
I'm on the twitter too.
Cheers!
bob
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