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I help companies raise debt financing and write reports about it. Tell us about the event or Meetup you host. The Manhattan wing of Brooklyn Speculative Fiction Writers group for short stories and flash fiction on the second Friday of every month. Stories and drinks. Lots of drinks. How did you get involved with BSFW and which events do you attend? I met Rob Cameron at a Tor party and he invited me to join BSFW with a big, warm hug. I am glad I joined. What have you found most helpful about this writing group? Getting different perspectives on my stories has improved my writing. Critiquing everyone's stories has helped me think hard about my own stories and style. What stories have most influenced your writing style? There are many and I add a few more every year. These are the authors I added this year- Mariana Enriquez, Daphne DuMaurier, Nnedi Okorafor, Laura Vanderberg. Jeff VanderMeere and Kevin Brockmeier are all-time favorites. How do you find time to write? Late into the night works best after my son is asleep. What are you working on now? A short story about house hold help in Kolkata and a domestic horror novel If you could submit a story to your dream anthology what would it be about and who else would be in it? It would be an anthology of fantasy-horror stories with a very nuanced portrayal of women protagonists. Vandana Singh, Nnedi Okorafor, Elizabeth Hand, Charliie Jane Anders, Ken Liu Publications: "Sandfall" "Life Apocalyptic" "Anatomy Of Bizarre"
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 What's your day job?
Full-stack web application engineer...when I'm actually doing the job thing. Which isn't now. Tell us about the event or Meetup you host or are planning to host. I host a monthly novel group meetup in Harlem, as an option for members living/working in Manhattan. How did you get involved with BSFW and which events do you attend? I found BSFW while searching on Meetup.com, and first came to Brad's novel group (or at least, it was at his place). I've attended Cam and Marcus's novel groups, and try to attend Readercon with BSFW every year. What have you found most helpful about this writing group? Aside from thoughtful critique, I've found the group very helpful in becoming a better reviewer, finding markets, suggested authors and reading (esp. beyond my beloved dark/supernatural fiction genre), and overall inspiration. What stories have most influenced your writing style? No specific stories, as I typically find an author I like and try to find and devour everything they've ever written. I hear the influences of many writers in my own style - Stephen King, Clive Barker, Caitlin Kiernan, Poppy Z. Brite, Christa Faust, Laird Barron, Harlan Ellison, Neil Gaiman, Anne Rice, Ray Bradbury, Stephen Crane, Jack London. How do you find time to write? Writing for me is half fun, half addiction, and a dash of brazen surety that what I'm writing is worth reading for someone, so it's not that difficult to find time. Everyone has the same 24 hours to spend as they choose. I often binge write, but I'm working on carving out a specific time every day, and generally following the 11 commandments of Henry Miller. What are you working on now? Now working on a short that may expand into a novella, "There You Shall Long to Return", about a would-be suicide drawn to skydiving, who encounters things not-of-this-world at 13K feet. If you could submit a story to your dream anthology what would it be about and who else would be in it? In the anthology would be Stephen King, Clive Barker, Caitlin Kiernan, Neil Gaiman, Poppy Z. Brite (now Billy Martin), Laird Barron, and John Langan. And, of course, Teri. :) And while we're indulging in fantasy, the anthology would be Cemetery Dance. Publications? Nothing pro yet, but serial "Lynxharrow: Path of the Witch" (https://www.wattpad.com/story/44919053-lynxharrow-path-of-the-witch) on Wattpad. Also currently submitting my novella "Scream of the Butterfly" to horror markets. "The Sobibor Retrievers" - an old story of mine about Sobibor (an extermination camp in Poland during the Nazi regime, and the only such camp where prisoners ever successfully revolted), and a dark immortal being who comes there in the guise of a young SS officer. The being is drawn by the abnormal abilities of a group of women prisoners, and tries to force them to to recover an object from an unearthly realm called the "Ephemerum".  What's your day job?
I'm a pharmaceutical copywriter. I write the materials pharmaceutical reps use when they're selling to physicians. Tell us about the event or Meetup you host or are planning to host. I currently host the On-the-Spot meetings, and am about to start a Wonderbook workshop, to work through the book about writing by Jeff VanderMeer. How did you get involved with BSFW and which events do you attend? I started BSFW almost 9 years ago when I couldn't find a critique group in NYC that you didn't have to already be a professional writer to attend. I go to as many groups as I can, but regularly (as work allows) attend a short story group, a novel group and the writing hangouts What have you found most helpful about this writing group? Truly professional-level critiques, first and foremost. But also a fantastic group of people I love to hang out (and nerd out) with! What stories have most influenced your writing style? Too numerous to mention! But Neil Gaiman, Brandon Sanderson, Sam J Miller and Daniel Jose Older most recently. Anne McCaffrey, Charles de Lint and Peter S Beagle if you set the way-back machine. How do you find time to write? Mostly, I write on my phone on the train on the way home from work. Sometimes on the way to work. What are you working on now? Re-defining my style. Also, a third-world fantasy about magic as a form of possession. Publications:
If you could submit a story to your dream anthology what would it be about and who else would be in it? The Ghosts of Everything - with Amal El-Mohtar, Sarah Pinsker, Charles deLint, Sam J Miller, Cat Valente, Daniel Jose Older, etc, etc.  Tell us about the event or Meetup you host or are planning to host.
The Queens short-story/novel meet-up is an outpost for all writers in New York's greatest borough, open to all types of stories. How did you get involved with BSFW and which events do you attend? I think I found BSFW from some Google searching for in-person New York writing groups, and it ticked all the boxes. I've been known to attend Sam's Short Story Group, Marcus' Novel Group, Puloma's Short Story Group, and Marcy's Short Story Group. What have you found most helpful about this writing group? Working in critiques into my writing process and vastly improved my writing. You should run towards feedback in order to not be writing in the echo chamber of your own mind. I also like the sense of community it fosters with my fellow travelers in the sf writing world. What stories have most influenced your writing style? Too many to number. I once made a list of about 150 core influences How do you find time to write? You have to make time. I write at lunch breaks, at night after my child goes to bed, on weekends while she naps, and whenever else I get the chance. What are you working on now? A new novel about magic in New York City. If you could submit a story to your dream anthology what would it be about and who else would be in it? It would be an anthology of techno science-fantasy and include work by Max Gladstone, Yoon Ha Lee, Charles Yu, Seth Dickenson, and Hannu Rajaniemi Publications: (with links if possible) "Saul, Again" (Caped) "The Spine of Worlds" (Kaleidotrope) "Judges' Cave" (Kaleidocast- Originally published in Lakeside Circus) "Trials of the Dead King" (LORE) "Logos Ex Machina" (365 Tomorrows) There are a lot of BSFW members that contribute their time and energy to the group, but non more so than the organizers. The Organizer Spotlight will bring you the names and faces of the people who make this writers group what it is, the best place for spec-fic.  Tell us about the event or Meetup you host or are planning to host.
I host my own Short Story Meetup as well as Marcus Tsong's Novel-Writing Meetup in Crown Heights. How did you get involved with BSFW and which events do you attend? I started to coming to meetups after Cam invited me back in 2012, and have been regularly attending short story and novel writing critqiue meetings ever since. Am definitely interested in joining the comics meetup as well! What have you found most helpful about this writing group? The feedback from other writers on my work is very helpful, but also just the process of giving and hearing feedback on other people's work can really get your gears turning when it comes to thinking about how you write. What stories have most influenced your writing style?4.) John Collier's "The Chaser," Shirley Jackson's "The Summer People," Roger Zelazny's "The Last Defender of Camelot," P.G. Wodehouse's "The Code of the Woosters," Jorge Luis Borges' "The Gospel According to Mark," Rachel Swirsky's "Dispersed by the Sun, Melting in the Wind," and I don't know, ask me again later. How do you find time to write? You kind of have to dig your heels in and prepare for it, even when you're tempted to double-book yourself. What are you working on now? I have a completed novel I am currently seeking representation for and am collaborating on a novella that is still in progress. I also try to keep working on at least one short story at any given time. If you could submit a story to your dream anthology what would it be about and who else would be in it? I’d love to be in any number of “Year’s Best” anthologies, but also I like the idea of an anthology similar to Neil Gaiman’s “Stories,” which includes stories from Kat Howard, Walter Mosley, and Gaiman himself. Publications: You can find links to my publications on my website: thesamschreiber.com, but they are: “Four Legs Good, Eight Legs Better," Tales to Terrify, October, 2018 "Ennigaldi," Vastarien: A Literary Journal, September, 2018 "Facebook Screamed and Screamed, Then I Ate It," Reprinted in The Overcast, July, 2018 "Lucid as the Snow," Hi-Concept Magazine, November, 2017 "Viscera," Reprinted in Tales to Terrify, October, 2017 "Homo Homini Lupus," Occult Detective Quarterly, October, 2017 "Viscera," A Breath from the Sky: Stories of Unusual Possession, August, 2017 "Facebook Screamed and Screamed, Then I Ate It," Analog Science Fiction and Fact, May, 2017 "First Cause," the Kaleidocast, May 2016 "Ahzi," In Memory of Dragons, Pendragon Variety Literary Magazine, June 2013 "Linger," The Dunesteef Audio Fiction Magazine, March, 2013 "Snakehead, "Journey Into...," July, 2012 "Corinthians," PodCastle, December, 2010 |
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