Update on everything
2/8/2020 Loyal readers and good friends keep asking whether I'm still working (my day job, yes) as a writing coach and book and screenplay consultant; and the answer is "yes" (and that I don't have any intention of retiring from it for 20/30 years). The coaching website for those interested: www.mcallistercoaching.com
While I'm at it (2014 was the last post--really?), an update on publications, interviews, fame (for what it might worth in a viral age) and longevity:
l. Actor LeVar Burton chose my Hugo-nominee story "Kin" to launch his new podcast, LEVAR BURTON READS. If you don't know LeVar--who's a wonderful man--from growing up on READING RAINBOW, then you know him from STAR TREK, ROOTS and other roles. His incredible podcast of "Kin" is at www.stitcher.com/podcast/stitcher/lev... . His interview with the author is on Stitcher, too, but you've got to pay for it, I'm afraid.
2. The sleep-deprivation experiment (Google: Randy Gardner sleep) keeps trending, first on NPR, then the BBC (I was interviewed: www.bbc.co.uk/programmes/w3csvtts ), and a NOVA segment on sleep--in which yours truly appears--is forthcoming.
3. The symbolism-questionnaire project keeps trending too every once in a while. Nice to see that old stories, if they're resonant ones for people, just don't die. http://www.theparisreview.org/blog/20...
4. Short stories and poems over the past two years and forthcoming in THE CHICAGO REVIEW, ANALOG, ASIMOV'S, FANTASY AND SCIENCE FICTION, CEMETERY DANCE, LIGHTSPEED, Horton's YEARS BEST SCIENCE FICTION, and others. (Yes, I write in fits and starts, but I do write, must write, because, if I don't, the world becomes even more surreal)
5. Hollywood continues its interest in DREAM BABY after thirty years and there may be some solid news sometime in 2020. (The last was Ridley Scott's DOD's interest six years ago.)
While I'm at it (2014 was the last post--really?), an update on publications, interviews, fame (for what it might worth in a viral age) and longevity:
l. Actor LeVar Burton chose my Hugo-nominee story "Kin" to launch his new podcast, LEVAR BURTON READS. If you don't know LeVar--who's a wonderful man--from growing up on READING RAINBOW, then you know him from STAR TREK, ROOTS and other roles. His incredible podcast of "Kin" is at www.stitcher.com/podcast/stitcher/lev... . His interview with the author is on Stitcher, too, but you've got to pay for it, I'm afraid.
2. The sleep-deprivation experiment (Google: Randy Gardner sleep) keeps trending, first on NPR, then the BBC (I was interviewed: www.bbc.co.uk/programmes/w3csvtts ), and a NOVA segment on sleep--in which yours truly appears--is forthcoming.
3. The symbolism-questionnaire project keeps trending too every once in a while. Nice to see that old stories, if they're resonant ones for people, just don't die. http://www.theparisreview.org/blog/20...
4. Short stories and poems over the past two years and forthcoming in THE CHICAGO REVIEW, ANALOG, ASIMOV'S, FANTASY AND SCIENCE FICTION, CEMETERY DANCE, LIGHTSPEED, Horton's YEARS BEST SCIENCE FICTION, and others. (Yes, I write in fits and starts, but I do write, must write, because, if I don't, the world becomes even more surreal)
5. Hollywood continues its interest in DREAM BABY after thirty years and there may be some solid news sometime in 2020. (The last was Ridley Scott's DOD's interest six years ago.)
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