WHEN THE VILLAIN COMES HOME is now available for Kindle as well as in paperback on Amazon.com. Look for the epub and listings at other online retailers soon.
In ongoing celebration of the release of WHEN THE VILLAIN COMES HOME, I’m spotlighting some of the authors in the anthology here on the blog.
Up today, some folks you might be able to spot if you’re attending ChiCon/WorldCon: Jay Lake, Peadar Ó Guilín, Tony Pi
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* Name: Jay Lake
* Location: Portland, OR
* twitter: @jay_lake
* website: www.jlake.com
* What inspired your story? / What’s the background behind your story?
- “The Woman Who Shattered the Moon” was inspired by a discussion with editor Gabrielle Harbowy, and heavily influenced by my own childhood years spent living in Africa. Likewise, much of the flavor of the story arises from my research and thought on steampunk and pseudoVictoriana in the process of writing my MAINSPRING trilogy.
* Will you be appearing at any cons/signings/events this year?
- WorldCon
* What’s your next publication after this?
- Not sure, but I have a novella forthcoming in Asimov’s this fall.
* What are you working on now?
- A space opera entitled SUNSPIN.
* Excerpt your favorite line/passage from your story:
- I love this line:
Tales of Madame Mbacha and her gravitational gun are surely just as legendary and improbable to a young man as are his parents’ stories of the days of their own youth.
Mostly because I both am a parent and have parents.
* Any acknowledgements you’d like to mention for your story?
- My thanks to Gabrielle Harbowy for the guidance, and to my parents for the life experience.
* Name: Peadar Ó Guilín
* Location: Dublin, Ireland
* twitter: @theinferior
* website: frozenstories.com
* What inspired your story? / What’s the background behind your story?
- Many people think it’s something to do with the US/Mexican border. But I’m a European and it’s not the first thing that came to mind, I assure you
* Will you be appearing at any cons/signings/events this year? If so, where?
- I’ll be at WorldCon in Chicago at the end of August.
* What’s your next publication after this?
- I think it’s going to be a short-story called “The Dowry” in Black Gate #14
* What are you working on now?
- I’m working on the last book of the Trilogy I began with “The Inferior”.
* Excerpt your favorite line/passage from your story:
- “No, my love. You’ll have me, you’ll always have me.” And to prove it, she had sworn her soul to him then and there. Sworn it to him in order to save their people. Lovely Irashtal. Sweet girl. And he had tasted the words on his own lips, his own promise bubbling to the surface and almost, almost set free to float happily on the air. Oh, Irashtal!
* Any acknowledgements you’d like to mention for your story?
- I tried to use the central concept in a very different story several times. I’d like to thank the editors who rejected it so that I could write it this way instead.
* Name: Tony Pi
* Location: Toronto, Canada
* twitter: wistling”>@wistling
* website: www.tonypi.com
* What inspired your story? / What’s the background behind your story?
- I’ve always wanted to do a bottled imp story, which mixed well with the alchemy idea. And an imp could only be up to no good…making it the perfect concoction for this anthology.
* Will you be appearing at any cons/signings/events this year? If so, where?
- WorldCon in Chicago, SFContario 3 in Toronto
* Excerpt your favorite line/passage from your story:
- “To live simpleminded was a doom worse than death to Treg, and Myrina was living proof.”
