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WHAT IDEA SPARKED THAT WONDERFUL NOVEL OR SHORT?
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WHAT IDEA SPARKED THAT WONDERFUL NOVEL OR SHORT?
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- Are you an Author, Reader, Publisher, Editor, Agent or Other?
- I am an agented fiction author
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- It's Alpha Adventures http://www.freewebs.com/uncle1/
- About Me:
- Chris Stevenson is a native Californian presently residing in Hemet—the dig site known as “Valley of the Mastodons.” His career has spanned such occupations as automotive mechanic and service manager, government security officer, and newspaper reporter and editor. At the age of 26 he discovered Twilight Zone Magazine and got the urge to write short stories. Shortly after he entered the L. Ron Hubbard Writers of the Future contest and placed amongst the finalists. After a whirlwind of initial successes, including his book, Dinothon, which was nearly optioned for film, he put pen and paper aside. He’s just recently taken up splashing ink again, to continue the writing career he’d always dreamed of. Word Wars and Once Upon a Goddess are his first novels to be published this year.
Among his credits are:
Auto Repair Shams and Scams (Forward by Ralph Nader), 1990, Price Stern & Sloan, Los Angeles--226 pages, non-fiction book.
Garage Sale Mania, 1988, Betterway Publications, Crozet, Virginia--190 pages, non-fiction book.
Word Wars, a SF novel, Rain Publishing Inc., Canada.
Once Upon A Goddess, a Fantasy novel, Rain Publishing Inc., Canada.
Planet Janitor--Custodian of the Stars, a SF novel, sold to Engage Books
Gate Walker, a Paranormal Thriller, sold to Lyrical Press
The Lupus Strain, a Crichton-esque Thriller, sold to LBF Publishing.
Fifteen short stories appear in various slick and small magazines--Amazing Stories, Space and Time, Doppelganger, Ouroborous, Alpha Adventures, Sycophant, Not One of Us.
Quarter finalist in the L. Ron Hubbard Writers of the Future Contest.
Two horror radio plays: The Summit, 15-minute play by Night Sounds, Embassy Cassette Inc., Santa Ana, California. Night of the Moa, 13-minute play.
Three hundred and fifty newspaper profiles, stories and interviews with Sunset Publishing Anaheim California.
Chris served as content editor for Sunset Publications for three years as well is a past member of the Science Fiction & Fantasy Writers of America.
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- Favorite Books:
- Virgin Planet, Ice Rigger, Black Marble, Close Encounters, Starship Troopers, The Demolished Man, The Forever War, Dune, Ringworld
- Favorite Bookstores on land or cyberspace
- B. Dalton. Waldons, Borders. Checkers. Amazon.com
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AMAZON REVIEW WORD WARS
Posted on November 27, 2007 at 11:57pm —
REVIEW FOR WORD WARS
Local Newspaper Feature
Sunday, July 29, 2007
| Entertainment |
Author's passion reveals ‘Word Wars'
Posted on November 27, 2007 at 11:54pm —
Current Affairs.
Well, let's see...I've just released my first novel Word Wars through Rain Publishing. I'm currently awaiting the artwork on the cover of my fantasy novel Once Upon a Goddess, which is also being released by Rain Publishing, due out this month (Nov). My agent just contacted me to say that a line-edited copy of The Lupus Strain is on its way back to me for revision and editing. And, he thought the book was great, which thrills me to no end. I've just received a hard-mail contract for yet anoth
… ContinuePosted on November 22, 2007 at 8:36pm —
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Anyway, I hope to get the house into decent shape before Christmas, when I do my annual meal for the family. There's also that Christmas list to get together. Time is ticking away.
What about you? Are you ready for Christmas? Or do you celebrate another Holiday? If so, are you ready?
Please Welcome Mary Cunningham, Cynthia's Attic Author
One of the main reasons for writing "Cynthia's Attic" came from my failure - failure to appreciate my ancestors. Our family stories are probably no more or less interesting than most, and I went out of my way to avoid remembering most of them or asking questions about my grandparents lives.
Or did I try to find out just which relative "supposedly" sold a city block on Wilshire Boulevard in Los Angeles for $20,000? Guaranteed, I would not be sitting here writing a blog had that particular relative held on to the property.
Then there's the story, "Cynthia's Attic: Curse of the Bayou," of my great-great grandfather, Augustus Boilliat who disappeared in 1860 while taking a load of produce down the Mississippi River to New Orleans? Oh, sure I've read different accounts about what happened to him, but lost forever are the stories his grandson (my grandfather) could've told me about facts he'd heard from my great-great grandmother, Marie Julia, about her husband's disappearance.
I remember a few accounts told by my dad about his adventures as a teenage cave guide at one of the largest caves in the Southern Indiana area, Wyandotte, but I only have to guess at some of the adventures he must've had.
The idea for Cynthia's Attic: The Magician's Castle came from detailed genealogy research done by my cousin, Betty. Long before the Internet, she traveled to Switzerland to search for documents that would tie our great-grandmother, Harriet Kistler, to Peter Kistler the First, President of the Republic of Bern, 1470-1480. I've tried to honor the Kistler family in the fourth adventure in Cynthia's Attic.
Thanks, Morgan, for having me as a guest!
Mary Cunningham
She is also co-writer of the humor-filled, women's lifestyle book, "Women Only Over Fifty (WOOF)," along with published stories, "Ghost Light" and "Christmas Daisy," A Cynthia's Attic short story.
To celebrate the release of "The Magician's Castle," (Quake/Echelon Press, DEC 1, 2009), a winner will be chosen on each blog stop to receive a copy of the "Cynthia's Attic" short story, "Christmas With Daisy!" So, be sure to make a comment!
Mary Cunningham Books
http://www.marycunninghambooks.com/
Cynthia's Attic Blog
http://www.cynthiasattic.blogspot.com/
Amazon
http://www.amazon.com/Mary-Cunningham/e/B002BLNEK4/ref=ntt_athr_dp_pel_1
Kindle
http://www.amazon.com/exec/obidos/search-handle-url?_encoding=UTF8&search-type=ss&index=digital-text&field-author=Mary%20Cunningham
Fictionwise
http://www.fictionwise.com/ebooks/a20811/Mary-Cunningham/?
Quake/Echelon Press
http://www.echelonpress.com/index.php?main_page=index&manufacturers_id=23&zenid=4ac57b7ae19fa071cab3b4295df7baf3
Please leave a comment to welcome Mary.
Check out the Mystery of the Missing Checks
Monday, I'm over at my group blog, http://makeminemystery.blogspot.com/, where I'm blogging about the mystery of the missing checks. Come on over and find out what it's all about.Thanks,
Morgan Mandel
Can We Talk?
I'm firming up some dates for speaking engagements in 2010. One's tentatively set for March 28, at 1:30 at the Niles Public Library, another probably in mid May at the Schaumburg Township District Library.Also, coming up is a radio interview at WJJQ again on May 7, at 9:35 a.m. before my booksigning May 8 at Cover to Cover Books in Tomahawk, WI.
I've heard that some people are more afraid of public speaking than of dying. Surprisingly, I find it easier each time I do it. As long as I have my cheat sheet with me to glance down at once in a while for security and I like what I'm talking about, I'm okay.
What about you? Do you like to talk or would you rather not?
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Yes, Happy Holidays, Christmas and New Years. May we land that big one!
Chris
My current book making the rounds is about an aura-reading device that may be making people commit suicide. The heroine is a trouble telekinetic.
I also am currently working on a book about a man with a family curse...
Let's hope we both find success in 2008!
I have another book which is going to get a lookover by an editor at Tor...the first chapter finaled in a contest I entered with the hope I might get this far and end up on the editor's desk. It's a book about a family curse.
I do like it here. It seems to be active, with a lot of intelligent interaction. The alert feature is also nice, letting me know about comments and articles.
Chris
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