Suzanne Church's Blog, page 8
March 24, 2014
Meeting the Gray Lady
[image error]Below, dear reader, please find bonus content for Suzanne’s book: ELEMENTS: A Collection of Speculative Fiction.
This series of posts provides stories-behind-the-stories for each tale in ELEMENTS.
Sitting in the 14th slot in the Table of Contents is: Gray Love
From 2000 to 2006, I was part-owner of a cottage on Lake Muskoka, about two hours north of Toronto.
Our cottage (which was actually more of a house) was situated on the same bay–Muskoka Bay–as the empty former residential facility for peop...
March 23, 2014
Tattoo Research Goes a Long Way
[image error]Below, dear reader, please find bonus content for Suzanne’s book: ELEMENTS: A Collection of Speculative Fiction.
This series of posts provides stories-behind-the-stories for each tale in ELEMENTS.
Sitting in the 13th slot in the Table of Contents is: Tattoo Ink
From January 2 to February 12 2005, I attended Clarion South in Brisbane, Australia. What an adventure! I certainly learned more about writing and editing in those six weeks than I had learned up until that point in my writing career.
One...
March 22, 2014
The Inspiration for “Synch Me, Kiss Me, Drop”
[image error]Below, dear reader, please find bonus content for Suzanne’s book: ELEMENTS: A Collection of Speculative Fiction.
This series of posts provides stories-behind-the-stories for each tale in ELEMENTS.
Sitting in the 12th slot in the Table of Contents is: Synch Me, Kiss Me, Drop
The music-snorting dance-club hopping story, Synch Me, Kiss Me, Drop was probably born during my university work-terms in the 80s, when I used to frequent clubs like RPM and The Copa in Toronto.
Synch Me is still available to...
March 21, 2014
Goodreads Giveaway
[image error]Over on Goodreads, EDGE Science Fiction and Fantasy Publishing has set up a giveaway for ELEMENTS: A Collection of Specualtive Fiction.
March 20, 2014
Interview: Eugie Foster
[image error]Eugie Foster calls home a mildly haunted, fey-infested house in metro Atlanta that she shares with her husband, Matthew. After receiving her master’s degree in psychology, she retired from academia to pen flights of fancy. She also edits legislation for the Georgia General Assembly, which from time to time she suspects is another venture into flights of fancy.
Eugie received the 2009 Nebula Award for her novelette, “Sinner, Baker, Fabulist, Priest; Red Mask, Black Mask, Gentleman, Beast,” the...
Because Door Prizes are Fun to Win…
At my upcoming book launches I will be giving away door prizes, because winning makes an event all that more fun!
Here are some of the goodies up for grabs:
[image error]In 2012, my story “Death Over Easy” was chosen by editor Nancy Kilpatrick to be included in the anthology, Danse Macabre: Close Encounters with the Reaper.
Death Over Easy was published too late to be included in ELEMENTS. So winners will receive an extra story from me, not to mention the other 25 stories where death plays a role.
Fellow Stop...
March 19, 2014
Destiny Lives in the Title’s Power
[image error]Below, dear reader, please find bonus content for Suzanne’s book: ELEMENTS: A Collection of Speculative Fiction.
This series of posts provides stories-behind-the-stories for each tale in ELEMENTS.
Sitting in the 11th slot in the Table of Contents is: Destiny Lives in the Tattoo’s Needle
Of all the stories I’ve written to date, I think that I’m most proud of the title, Destiny Lives in the Tattoo’s Needle, the first of my short stories to be a finalist for an Aurora Award.
I believe that most wri...
March 18, 2014
It’s Not Easy to be Fuzzy or Green
[image error]Below, dear reader, please find bonus content for Suzanne’s book: ELEMENTS: A Collection of Speculative Fiction.
This series of posts provides stories-behind-the-stories for each tale in ELEMENTS.
Sitting in the 10th slot in the Table of Contents is the last of the Couch Teleportation Universe stories: “Fuzzy Green Monster Number Two”
My third story in the Couch Teleportation Universe examines the definition of a monster. Fuzzy was originally published in Neo-Opsis Magazine, Issue #12.
[image error]Greenie is...
March 16, 2014
Toilets in the Couch Teleportation Universe
[image error]Below, dear reader, please find bonus content for Suzanne’s book: ELEMENTS: A Collection of Speculative Fiction.
This series of posts provides stories-behind-the-stories for each tale in ELEMENTS.
Sitting in the 9th slot in the Table of Contents is the second of the Couch Teleportation Universe stories: “Waste Management”
I mentioned in my last post on the story behind Everyone Needs a Couch that many people wanted to hear the other side of Tanker’s sad story. So the couch makes a second appeara...
March 14, 2014
Everyone Actually Needs a Couch
[image error]Below, dear reader, please find bonus content for Suzanne’s book: ELEMENTS: A Collection of Speculative Fiction.
This series of posts provides stories-behind-the-stories for each tale in ELEMENTS.
Sitting in the 8th slot in the Table of Contents is the first of the Couch Teleportation Universe stories: “Everyone Needs a Couch”
My first-ever published story is: Everyone Needs a Couch.
Amazingly, I sold the story to the first market I submitted it to.
I sold Couch on January 12th, 2002 to Oceans of...
