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| Posted By : Nicholas - 6/2/2006 1:58 PM | |
Hello, fellow frontiersmen-and-women in the realms of Night and of Faerie.
Who the hell am I? Here is a brief bio:
I was born in a city that rose from the ashes of another ancient city in the desert (Phoenix, AZ, that is). In my youth I spent long days walking desert trails once used by Hopi, Navajo, and, before them, the mysterious lost race the Anasazi. I was spinning strange tales before I could write, drawing pictures and verbally supplying the narrative.
Fast forward twenty-odd (very odd) years.
I now reside in Minnesota, where I earned a Master's degree in English from Winona State University. While a graduate assistant at WSU, I taught English composition classes as well as Topics in Literature classes on J.R.R. Tolkien and on Horror in Fiction. Additionally, I assistant-taught World Myth as well as Film. My Master's thesis was titled The Inklings: Modern Mythmakers.
Recent and current projects:
My essay "Gandalf's Staff, Prospero's Books: Magic in Tolkien and Shakespeare" is forthcoming in Tolkien and Shakespeare: Essays on Shared Themes and Language from McFarland Press.
I have three poems forthcoming in Weird Tales, two poems in Surreal Magazine, and a short story in Raven Electrick.
I have had more than one hundred short stories, poems, and essays published in a score of magazines, including Weird Tales, Mythic Delirium, Mythic Circle, and True Romance (yes, I admit it).
My short story "The Wrong Blue" took second-place honors in the 2005 Dylan Days Creative Writing competition, general fiction division.
My poem "The Prairie Whales Are All Extinct," in Mythic Delirium #11, received Honorable Mention in the eighteenth annual Year's Best Fantasy and Horror.
MOOREEFFOC, a small-press fantasy magazine I co-edited with Gabe Dybing (another new member on this forum), garnered an Honorable Mention in the 2000 Writer's Digest Zine Awards, coming in third in the Genre Zine category.
I am re-launching MOOREEFFOC this fall under the new title Green Sun.
I'm looking forward to participating in the forum!
Nicholas |
| Posted By : erazmus - 6/2/2006 3:02 PM | Nicholas,
Welcome to the forum! It is very nice to have you. I see, by following the links below your sig, that you are in fact Nicholas Ozment, who's work I have enjoyed many times in the past. Well met!
Mike
Michael D. Turner
"Psyched Up" in _Turn the other Chick_-ed. E. Friesner-Baen books
www.baen.com
"Two Ravens" in Amazing Journeys Magazine #9 Sept. 05
"An Incident at Black Tongue Tavern" in _Bash Down the Door and Slice Open the Badguy_ from Fantasist Enterprises |
| Posted By : Christopher_Heath - 6/2/2006 4:22 PM | Welcome to the board, Nicholas. It's one of the best forums on-line, in my opinion. Hope you grow to like it as much as I have.
Christopher M. Heath
"Azieran: Creed of the Desert Kings" in Forgotten Worlds
"Azieran: Maixgloan" in GrendelSong #2
"Azieran: Brotherhood of Rot" in Prism Quarterly 8.3
"Azieran: She of the White Lotus" in Sages and Swords by Pitch-Black Books
"Azieran: Bound by Virtue" in Clash of Steel book III by Carnifex Press
"Azieran: Blood and Kings" novella by Carnifex Press
"Azieran: The Frost Scarab of Luunhaat" in Lycanthropes by ComStar Media, LLC
"Azieran: The Young Roué" in Tavern Tales by ComStar Media, LLC
+ others
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| Posted By : Nicholas - 6/3/2006 11:34 AM | | Well met, indeed! Thank you, Michael and Christopher, for the warm welcome. I'm looking forward to participating in the discussions, though I probably won't be able to log in as often I'd like. This weekend I'll be checking out the stories in FLASHING SWORDS #6, so hopefully I'll be able to contribute to feedback.
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| Posted By : ScrewMoonshine - 6/3/2006 1:01 PM | Welcome to the board, Nicholas!
Robert Orme
Out now: "Such Dreams" in Amazing Journeys Magazine #12 |
| Posted By : erazmus - 6/3/2006 8:09 PM | And I'll add that your "If life gives you bloodsucking freaks, Just make bloodsucking freakade" in Weird Tales #338 was one of the most enjoyable pieces of verse I've come across in any publication.
Mike
Michael D. Turner
"Psyched Up" in _Turn the other Chick_-ed. E. Friesner-Baen books
www.baen.com
"Two Ravens" in Amazing Journeys Magazine #9 Sept. 05
"An Incident at Black Tongue Tavern" in _Bash Down the Door and Slice Open the Badguy_ from Fantasist Enterprises |
| Posted By : STForstner - 6/4/2006 1:18 PM | Welcome. With over a hundred publications, I would guess that you've been rather busy.  |
| Posted By : Rob Santa - 6/5/2006 10:14 AM | Welcome. It's good to have another writer/editor in the group.
Rob Santa |
| Posted By : MichaelEhart - 6/5/2006 10:50 PM | Welcome!
"The View from the Shotglass Floor" T. N. Thomas' TimeFlash, August 2006
"The Death of Number 23" Dark Krypt, coming July 2006
"Servant of the Manthycore" Sword Review, right now!
"Voice of the Spoiler" Better Fiction, right now!
"Dancing with the Elder Gods"-- Thirteen Magazine, October 2005
"It's a Living" Byzarium---November 2005
"An Exorcism Straight, Hold the Elvis" The Sword Review, October 2005
Host, 2005 Nebula Awards Live Chat, sff.net
http://mehart.blogspot.com/ |
| Posted By : Frank Menser - 6/11/2006 9:33 AM | Hi, Sorry to be late with the greeting but have been chewing up paper... 
Welcome in. It really is the best forum out here.
Frank
It's just my imagination...running away with me.
LET IT RIP is now appearing in Dark Discoveries 6.
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| Posted By : abraxas5 - 6/12/2006 11:00 PM | Hello! I just got back from vacation (Did you know there are actual live chickens wandering the streets of Key West? How cool is that?) and am just now trying to catch up on reading the discussion board postings.
I had to chime in to say hello and tell you 1) I like that picture you have posted - it suggests the thoughtful "writer-ish" look and 2) Wow! You've been busy with all those publications. I'm officially ashamed of my own paltry writing credits.
Kim Sullivan
Stones of Abraxas
July 2006
Medallion Press
ISBN 1-932815-76-7
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| Posted By : VeeJay - 6/13/2006 5:32 AM | | Hiya, and well met sir! If you're a friend of Gabe's then you're certainly a friend of mine..and your published track record admittedly is certainly impressive, let me just say that... |
| Posted By : Nicholas - 6/13/2006 1:49 PM |
VeeJay said...
Hiya, and well met sir! If you're a friend of Gabe's then you're certainly a friend of mine Veejay, I have indeed been friends with Gabe for a number of years. As a friend of a friend, are you someone I might know by another alias?
erazmus said...
And I'll add that your "If life gives you bloodsucking freaks, Just make bloodsucking freakade" in Weird Tales #338 was one of the most enjoyable pieces of verse I've come across in any publication.
I'm blushing! Weird Tales has bought a couple more poems from me that are in a similar vein; hopefully they'll appear sometime before discussion forums are replaced by direct cybernetic brainlinks. The general lag time between sale and publication at WT, I have found, is about two years. Hey, that reminds me of what they say about stars: "The star that you're looking at now actually sent out the light waves you're seeing about 10,000 years ago..."
abraxas5 said...
I had to chime in to say hello and tell you 1) I like that picture you have posted - it suggests the thoughtful "writer-ish" look and 2) Wow! You've been busy with all those publications. I'm officially ashamed of my own paltry writing credits.
Kim, Thanks! Regarding the pic, though, perhaps you can put my curiosity to rest on one point: as small as the picture is, can you tell that I am holding a long-stemmed pipe? As to the second half of your comment, I have been at it for over twelve years, and for the 100+ acceptances, I have three times as many rejections. And, incidentally, you have a novel to your credit!
Finally, thank you Frank Menser, Michael Ehart, Rob Santa, STForstner, Robert Orme, Christopher Heath, and anyone else I missed, for the welcomes! |
| Posted By : erazmus - 6/13/2006 3:04 PM | Nicholas said...
Kim, Thanks! Regarding the pic, though, perhaps you can put my curiosity to rest on one point: as small as the picture is, can you tell that I am holding a long-stemmed pipe?!
A pipe? I thought you were picking your teeth with a weed stem of some sort!
Mike
Michael D. Turner
"Psyched Up" in _Turn the other Chick_-ed. E. Friesner-Baen books
www.baen.com
"Two Ravens" in Amazing Journeys Magazine #9 Sept. 05
"An Incident at Black Tongue Tavern" in _Bash Down the Door and Slice Open the Badguy_ from Fantasist Enterprises |
| Posted By : nathan - 6/14/2006 2:20 AM | Nicholas -- you sir have style and quirk. Now get to posting and adding your skewed vision to our threads. Plus I knew that was a pipe though for some reason I, like Mike, though a weed (Hobbit?) was involved. Gandalf's Staff indeed...
VIEW IMAGE
"Writing the wet dreams of teenage boys" - Lindsey Llyod, Tangent Reviews |
| Posted By : abraxas5 - 6/15/2006 6:47 PM | | In your picture it looks like you're smoking a long pipe, but the photo is kind of dark, so I couldn't be sure. I considered commenting on it in my post, but then figured that if it wasn't a pipe at all, that would be embarrassing. I mean, if you're actually stroking an oddly-shaped beard or something, then I've probably just made an enemy.
Kim
Stones of Abraxas
July 2006
Medallion Press
ISBN 1-932815-76-7
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| Posted By : Nicholas - 6/20/2006 9:31 AM |
nathan said...
Nicholas -- you sir have style and quirk. Now get to posting and adding your skewed vision to our threads. Plus I knew that was a pipe though for some reason I, like Mike, thought a weed (Hobbit?) was involved. Gandalf's Staff indeed... Now you're going to get me in trouble! I will try to get more posts up in the threads, though I'm limited right now to having web access only at work--on breaks or when the boss isn't looking.
Kim,
Other than being a novelist, are you also a librarian? If I am not woefully mistaken, you are a librarian at the university where I received my BA and MA. A local working in the fantasy genre--we should join forces! (I don't know how we'd do that, exactly...And it's funny, with the advent of the internet, how it's no longer so significant if someone in your field lives on the next block or over in England.)
erazmus said...
A pipe? I thought you were picking your teeth with a weed stem of some sort!
Bah!
BTW, I've been following with interest the thread Gabe started and that you and Daniel have gotten in on regarding submission length, the costs of publishing in the small press and all that. I believe Gabe is preparing to weigh in on that again, regarding getting paid for one's work, and get everyone riled up again. |
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