BARRY B. LONGYEAR
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Writing & Publishing Projects In The Works:ENCHANTEDS EDITIONS
6/24/2010 Barry Longyear's powerful novella, Silent Her, is now available as a Kindle eBook. This is the first of many works to be released on Kindle under our Enchanteds publishing imprint. In the future will come the reaminder of Barry's books, articles, short stories, and some surprises. If this venture proves to be manageable and commercial, we plan to open this up to OOP authors, established authors with a favorite lingering unpublished work or works, and even some brand new authors, everything handled electronically. Keep informed by checking in at the Enchanteds page.  6/24/2010 Novelette. We already know some people have an easier time living life than others, casting humanity into winners, losers, and those in between. There was a study launched at a Boston college that attempted to investigate an association between "winning" and one's compatibility with the quantum field. "Boston Cream" tells the story of one of the "losers" who participated in the study . . . and was charged with murder. Awaiting rewrite.  5/14/2010 The Night, rewrite completed, MS off to my agent. See NEWS above for notes and photos on visiting some of the important sites of the story.  ALTEN KAMERADEN 2/11/2010 It's 1918, you're a German sniper in WWI and you save a buddy's life, a lance corporal named Adolph Hitler. Now it's April 1945, you're hiding in a Berlin basement as the Russians churn the rubble overhead with bombs and rockets, suddenly you're ordered to come to the Fuhrer's bunker to repair the ventilation system. Did I mention you're also Jewish? Now appearing in the April issue of Asimov's.  8/17/09 Ice age time travel novel intended to be the first of a series following the adventures of Gordon Redcliff and the Black Mountain people into the future they were never supposed to have. Part I of the abridged version is in the July/August issue of Analog. Part II is in the September issue. Contact Analog for back issues. It's a good yarn and worth your time. The manuscript for the complete novel is at my agent's making the rounds. THE WRITE STUFF. The online seminar in book form. I've gotten good feedback from Stanley Schmidt at Analog and Gordon Van Gelder at F&SF, as well as from my original crop of writers. Manuscript awaiting revisions.
The online writing seminar is still available for those interested in career writing and who don't tremble before a big challenge. Instead of sending in for the free intro, it's now a page in the Webmansion. Hit the Icon and and read "Writing: A Way of Life."  8/17/09 Ghost story promised to an anthology. What if you really need a vacation but don't have either the money or the days off from your job? What about trading jobs for a few weeks with someone who works in the spot you want to visit? Well, you still have to work, but you have weekends and nights free to explore. That you'd be filling in for a ghost and the ghost would be filling in for you is just something that needs to be worked out. Finally I get to use all that research I did on Carlsbad Caverns and murder by stealth. Grump. Crossed wires and whatnot. I had to withdraw "The Swap" from the anthology. You've heard, perhaps, of what too many cooks do to the broth? Too many editors appear to be a similar asset. Currently Warren Lapine is looking at it possibly for his new aquisition, Realms of Fantasy.  8/17/09 Mystery. So you went and killed a guy who surprised you while you were ransacking his home. So, he's a mystery writer? Big deal. He has a collaborator? So what? Another mystery writer? Old, feeble, flabby bookworm, you're really worried about him, right? . . . except the dead guy's friend really knows an awful lot of ways to kill someone. Hmmm. MS bounced at Ellery Queen's, bounced at AHMM. I guess a good solid revenge tale is not politically correct. Maybe if I make it a ghost story . . .  2/23/2009 Mystery Novel. Sequel to The Hangman's Son, in which Joe Torio goes undercover at an institution for the violently insane -as a patient. Object: prove a serial killer there isn't guilty of all the murders with which he has been charged. While rewriting The Hangman's Son, I couldn't resist polishing this one a bit. New MS at my agent's.  2/23/09 Mystery Novel. You're a police detective, you've almost died, you're being congratulated for killing three mobsters you don't recall killing, and during your formative years your father was the state hangman. Now your shrink wants you to write the story of your life. The big rewrite is completed and the manuscript off to the agent. Very proud of this one.  Guy Shad 2/5/09 The popular Jaggers and Shad SF series (along with two episodes never before published) has been gathered in book form and is currently at my agent's being peddled to wherever. One of the unpublished stories, "The Sheriff's Tale," I hope to read at Readercon this year. We'll see if Programming can find me enough space.  |
 Research Why this?The original intent of this page was to keep you appraised of what of mine might be appearing in print. That way you could hover in giddy anticipation as you wait for decisions and release dates as I do. (Do not be confused by the item dates. They indicate the last time that item was updated, which usually doesn't happen unless something changes.)
Some things have been on this page for some time: Dark Corners, for one example. The only way off this page is if the project achieves publication. Hence, it appears that I have inadvertently created a Potential Failure Forum. Not good for the image. I thought about dropping projects from the page that seemed to be doing nothing but collecting digital dust, but this is also a list of what you're missing, friends. What you do with this information I wouldn't presume to suggest. In any event, I'm keeping them on the page until they are either sold or cry 'uncle.' Times are rough: enjoy the process.  |
