Meet Some
SlugTribers
Here's a list of websites for
current and erstwhile SlugTribe members, alphabetically by
last name.
Pictures and mini-bios to
come. Several of the SlugTribe members are on also on
LiveJournal. If you're a member and I don't have your
website listed, set me
straight on your URL.
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Successes, News and
Other
High-Fives for SlugTribers
Winter 2008
Fred Stanton sold "The Secret History of Xanadu" to The Asylum, an online magazine. Robert Read, PhD's 10-year-old daughter sold a story to Stone Soup, beating her father to a first sale. Matthew Bey, Gary Eakman and Kyle Patrick are all three semifinalists in the Writers of the Future Contest for the quarter. Russ Williams returned from Poland with his new fiancee Anna for an Austin visit, and there was a BBQ potluck to honor him. Patrice Sarath, who just put up her own Website, got the art for the cover of her novel Gordath Wood coming out from Berkley/Ace and it has the right breed and color of horse on it! Jay Lake's first novel published by a major press, Mainspring, made the Nebula semifinals. Wendy Wheeler's fantasy script Heaven & Nell that was workshopped through SlugTribe is under consideration by Grade A Productions (who are also working on a project with George Clooney). William Browning (Bill) Spencer will have a story in the Year's Best Horror collection ("The 10th Muse"); it's also up for a Bram Stoker Award. Allen Wise has the story of the month (Feb) in Blazing Adventures e-Zine, called "Black Shores."
Fall 2007
This Website finally got its threaded discussion / Internet BBoard working. The plan is to support virtual critique groups by posting stories and reviewing online, but we're still working out the kinks. Patrick Sullivan was engaged by RevolutionSF.com to review this year's Fantastic Fest, a fantasy/horror movie filmfest. Paige Roberts was introduced to Eternal Press at ArmadilloCon by Patrice Sarath, and sold them multiple e-books. She also sold an e-book, Midnight Raid and Fire and Ice, through Eternal Press, out of Australia. Allen Wise was invited by Blazing Adventures to write another Lovecraftian story for them, and Gluten Lumps Chilling Tales bought his high seas fantasy story. Wendy Wheeler's fantasy script HEAVEN & NELL, workshopped within the SlugTribe, got to the top 10% in the 2007 SlamDance and Cynosure contests. New member Matt Patterson has agent Cameron McClure w/Donald Maas reading his novel again now that he's completed her requested edits.
Summer 2007
Carla
Feldpausch-Siegle's novel Allelea won first place in the science fiction
category of the Writer League of Texas novel contest,
earning her serious interest from agents and packagers at
the conference. Paige Roberts just sold "Tiger, Tiger" to an anthology yet
to be named published by Xcite Books in England. Founding
member Elizabeth
Moon won the
Robert
A. Heinlein Award.
Patrice
Sarath sold a
two-book contract (Gordath Wood, which we critiqued, is book one) to Susan
Allison at Berkley/Ace Publishing through her new agent. The
Cryptopolis people, all of whom were once SlugTribers,
self-published their own anthology, Tales from the Hidden City.
The Space
Squid guys put
out volume 4 in their 'zine in time for ArmadilloCon and had an aspiring cover girl
invigorate their DilloCon party by showing up with her
friend in burlesque costumes. Jay Lake, erstwhile member, got a review of his Tor
novel, Mainspring, in the LA Times. Mike Brotherton, PhD, another erstwhile member,
coordinated and hosted Launch
Pad, a NASA-funded
astronomy workshop for SF writers at the University of
Wyoming.
Spring 2007
Patrice
Sarath and
Jayme
Blaschke will
co-coordinate the August 10, 2007 DilloCon
Writers Workshop.
Patrice now has an agent for her fantasy novel and just sold
a story to Apex. Paige Roberts sold two stories to two anthologies so far,
including the Super
Queer-O's
alternative superheroes antho. Patrick Sullivan sold his horrific dystopia clown story
to Alien
Skin magazine. It
appears, after a year of earnest courting of Joshua Bilmes,
Allen
Wise will soon
have an agent for his fantasy novel, Wolf and Maiden. Joshua was also interested in
reading Fred
Stanton's SF
novel. Matthew
Bey hosted a film
restrospective of his own home movies at a party in
February.
Winter 2006
Allen
Wise sold "The Day
I Quit" to Androids
III anthology.
Matthew
Bey sold "Flesh
Feast" to Undead
III.
Wendy
Wheeler threw a
last-minute New Year's Party where several SlugTribers
glutted themselves on delicious chili and whatever they
could stick into the mesmerizing chocolate fountain.
Patrick
Sullivan and his
wife wrote, cast, directed and produced a short film based
on a
story he published on RevolutionSF.com.
Fall 2006
Austin hosted the
World Fantasy
Convention in
November, an excellent opportunity to meet and greet
editors, writers and erstwhile SlugTribers. Both
Jay
Lake and
Leah
Cutter came back
to town; Jay coordinated a BBQ dinner at the Salt Lick to
meet old and new members. Wendy Wheeler had Charles deLint and Mary Ann
Harris for
houseguests again during WFC, which gave her opportunities
to get to know Charles Vess and his wife Karen better. Several SlugTribers also did readings
(Patrice Sarath,
Jay Lake) and
participated in panels (Steve Wilson, Wendy Wheeler, etc.). Jennifer Evans polished her novel pitch for Schmooks, accomplished doing it with three editors at
WFC, and the editor of Nightshade Books asked her to send it. Allen Wise's "Beyond the Great Tomb in
Kazernan" came out in Cthulhu Express. Matthew Bey, David Chang and Steve
Wilson put out
volume 3 of Space
Squid and had a
billiards party at the Fox & Hound pub to celebrate.
Summer 2006
Melissa Tyler and Jayme
Blaschke co-coordinated the 2006 DilloCon Writers
Workshop, and Melissa did great, having the lion's share of
the job. Allen
Wise has decided
to get his own comic book produced, and is auditioning
artists. The SlugTribe critiqued the script for the first 15
pages or so. Matthew Bey and Steve Wilson took over as fiction editors for
RevolutionSF when Jayme Blaschke stepped down. Wendy Wheeler traveled to Atlanta in June for the 2nd
Mythic
Journeys Conference (in honor of Joseph Cambpell) where she
hooked up with Terri Windling, Charles deLint, Delia
Sherman, Ellen Kushner, and a host of musicians, performers
and storytellers.
Spring 2006
Jay
Lake, after
selling several novels to the small press, sold a two-book
contract to Tor Books.
Winter 2005
Matthew Bey, David
Chang and Steve Wilson are now offering podcasts at www.spacesquid.com of writers reading their works
published in the magazine. Patrice Sarath and Don Webb are online. (So is local writer
Chris
Nakashima-Brown,
who's never been a SlugTriber.) Wendy Wheeler's short script HELLO
OFFICER, which the
SlugTribe critiqued, was filmed in Austin by a group of
non-paid workers.
Ancient History
- Several SlugTribers
read flash fiction at a downtown pub to celebrate issue
#2 of Space
Squid.
- Jane Hixson got an
Honorable Mention in the 2005 Writers of the Future
contest.
- Patrice Sarath sold
her story "The Gig in the Hall of Kings" to a specialty
coffee-focused anthology out of the U.K.
- Wendy Wheeler read her
vampire erotica story "Desiree's Shadow" at the Halloween
2004 meeting of the Writers League of Texas.
- Matthew Bey got an
Honorable Mention in the 2004 Writers of the Future
Contest.
- As I have time to
look back over notes from 20+ years (!!) I may add more
to this. -- Wendy
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