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Winner! Mary Shelley Award

I'm thrilled to announce that I've been named winner of the 2009 Mary Wollstonecraft Shelley Award for Imaginative Fiction, as chosen by Rosebud Magazine's judge Nina Kiriki Hoffman. My winning story, "The Freak Museum" will appear in Rosebud's spring issue.

I'm such a fan of Mary Shelley, a fact which prompted me to enter the contest to be begin with. She was a woman of talent and illumination at a time when it couldn't fully be appreciated. She loved deeply, lost greatly, and died too young. She wrote many works of probing fiction, which I recommend reading, of course, but her novel Frankenstein; or, the Modern Prometheus is a great introduction.  And if you're wondering which tea to drink while you read her compelling tale, visit my blog post at English Tea Store.com to find my recommendation.

 
Booksigning Event at Davis-Kidd

Home for the Holidays Booksigning Event - Dec 7!

 I'll be at Davis Kidd Booksellers in Memphis on December 7, 2009, at 6 pm. Local authors are being featured in their "Home for the Holidays" event, and I would love to meet friends, old and new. Check out my schmap, and then stop by and share holiday greetings. 

 
Jackie Meets with Master Writing Class

I recently had the honor of addressing a masters writing class at Overton High School in Memphis. We spoke together from lunch until the day-end bell about writing, publishing, and the industry. What an amazing, determined group of minds!

The teacher, Shannon Marszalek, who arranged for the meeting, fills a necessary role of encourager; it’s obvious she adores and respects the talent of her kids.

I spoke with poets, mainstream writers, and a science fiction writer (in whom I recognized a kindred spirit). Each young adult was as interested in the business of writing as well as writing itself, which I feel is such an important element.

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Interview with Jackie Gamber on Choate Road

Catch the interview with Jackie Gamber, author of Redheart, and founder of the Humans Against Dragon Stereotypes foundation (HADS). She talks with Choate Road about her efforts to help fight Specism.

As Greg Hall shared, "I recalled a lady I had met briefly months ago. She chucked a metal disc at my head and when I looked over to her booth, she whispered ‘The Dragons. They need you.’ I rubbed my sore forehead and read what wound up being a button. It said ‘FIGHT SPECISM.’"

"This was who I had to interview. Someone who understood the world is a much bigger place than just our hectic little lives."

To read the entire interview, follow the link >> Jackie Gamber Interview

 
Nov 14-16, 2008 | Conference

Florida Writers' Assoc Conference
Lake Mary, FL

Jackie has been asked last minute to head down to Florida for the annual FWA Conference. She will be doing one-on-one sessions with some of the talented writers from that beautiful state, and sharing with them some of her insights as an author and as an editor.

 

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Current Writing Project


"Heart of Stone"
Horror short story
Wordcount: 4000
FINISHED
Next up: Sela -  Book Two of the Leland Dragon Series

 

Recently Published

 
Poem "Walking by Moonlight" in Midnight Screaming
 
 
 
 
"Rose-Colored Eyes", a dark tale of optimism, is available in issue #7 of Shroud Magazine
 

 
 "Dead Mind" appears in 2009's issue2 of Necrotic Tissue
 

"Hologram Bride" appears in issues 12 and 13 of Orson Scott Card's InterGalactic Medicine Show. This is a must read novella.


"The Most Dangerous" in the Workers Write! anthology, Tales From the Couch


 

"The Time Scar" appears in Dragons Composed. This story is set in the same world as Jackie's novel, Redheart




Upcoming Fiction

Mary Shelley Award-winning apocalyptic story in the spring issue of Rosebud Magazine