Gregory Norman Bossert

You are never not writing…

Greg Bossert — Sun, 21 Apr 2013 23:14:55 +0000

My ideas for stories are not so much building blocks as they are bait. I hold them out in some wild corner of my thoughts (the palm at the end of the mind) and wait days/weeks/months while the stories flitter at the edge of sight, and (readiness is all) hope [read more...]

Did you know…

Greg Bossert — Sun, 14 Apr 2013 23:48:09 +0000

I’m working on two stories inspired by the “Did you know…” section of Wikipedia’s main page, which I use as a homepage. One is based on the medieval hunting ritual of Unmaking crossed with an article on the Glass Delusion of Charles VI, and the other is based on the phenomenon of the Prisoner’s Cinema. I honestly ain’t give a damn if Wikipedia is accurate: it’s a wackypedia grab-bag of story ideas…

Shared Worlds: Hand in Hand

Greg Bossert — Tue, 19 Mar 2013 21:10:00 +0000

Here’s some handy (and inspiring!) advice from a stack of great authors, including Gene Wolfe, Neil Gaiman, Jane Yolen, Ann & Jeff VanderMeer, Joe Haldeman, etc. etc. etc. I am also somehow mixed up in there, and very very honored to be so.

Shared Worlds: Hand in Hand

Shared Worlds is a great program, and supported by some extraordinary people. Speaking of extraordinary, the tireless Teri Goulding organized this Hand in Hand project, as well as last year’s very very cool Critter Corral.

Update: the ever-generous Mr. Gaiman blogged about the Hand in Hand project and Buzz Feed picked it up and it’s all gone a bit virus-y. Here are some pages with my hand and/or quote on it. And a video. Wacky. I’m even misquoted, which I find inordinately pleasing.

Sale: Bloom

Greg Bossert — Tue, 12 Mar 2013 20:37:08 +0000

I’m delighted to have sold my story “Bloom” to Asimov’s Science Fiction Magazine. I first drafted it at the 2010 Clarion Writers’ Workshop, and started looking at it again a couple of months ago. It should appear sometime in late 2013. My story “Lost Wax” will be appearing in the August issue of Asimov’s.

SF Signal recommends “The Telling”

Greg Bossert — Tue, 29 Jan 2013 05:20:14 +0000

The always-excellent SF Signal podcast recommends my story “The Telling” for a Hugo Award.

Character

Greg Bossert — Tue, 29 Jan 2013 05:15:48 +0000

I’ve been thinking about the non-trivial differences between a writer and a would-be writer—the trivial differences being writing anything at all, finishing that thing, and letting someone you wouldn’t trust with your life read it—and I think perhaps one such difference is: would-be writers find something of themselves in every [read more...]

Sale: “Lost Wax” to Asimov’s

Greg Bossert — Sat, 08 Dec 2012 02:53:36 +0000

I’ve sold my yeastpunk insurrection romance story “Lost Wax” to Asimov’s Science Fiction Magazine. It should be appearing sometime in early 2013. More details soon.

“The Telling” out now!

Greg Bossert — Sat, 08 Dec 2012 02:50:41 +0000

My story “The Telling” is out now at Beneath Ceaseless Skies: read it for free on their website. It got a “Recommended” from Locus Magazine, and good reviews here and here.

Sale: The Telling

Greg Bossert — Sat, 18 Aug 2012 21:08:00 +0000

It’s with no small delight that I can announce that my short story The Telling has sold to the excellent Fantasy fiction website Beneath Ceaseless Skies. It should be appearing sometime in the second half of 2012; more info coming as I get it.

The more things change, the more they, erm, are different.

Greg Bossert — Sun, 24 Jun 2012 00:14:25 +0000

It’s been a busy month or two, and as usual I am playing catch-up here at the blog. My own big news is that I am now working at Lucasfilm Animation, on a soon-to-be announced project.

I’ve been busy on various projects for friends, including Dermot Power and his son Eolan with whom I am working on an exciting short film, Randy Gaul, and Tony McVey and his stop-motion short Gardens of Miranda, for which I did sound and music. I am looking forward to some exciting new video work with Jeff VanderMeer as well.

And I am finding time for writing here and there. I am particularly excited about a new novelette “Lost Wax” (see below for a now-out-of-date excerpt) and an SF short called “The Prisoner’s Cinema”. And I am poking again at a novel-length adaptation of my screenplay “Downside”.

I’m happy to report that my classmates from Clarion 2010 continue to publish remarkable stories. In 2012 alone, Kali Wallace and John Chu have stories in Asimov’s, Jenn Hsyu in Future Fire, Tom Underberg and Tamsyn Muir in Weird Tales, Tamsyn has another story in the new Nightmare, John another story in the Bloody Fabulous anthology, Kali also has stories in Weird Fiction Review and Lightspeed, Dustin Monk has stories in Shimmer and ODD?2, and nonfiction all over the place, and Karin Tidbeck has a story in Ann VanderMeer’s upcoming Steampunk Revolutions anthology as well as two books: Jagannath, a collection of her stories in English from Cheeky Frawg Books, as well as Amatka, her first novel in Swedish. Whew. I am sure I am missing something, and that by the time you read this there will be more new stories from these amazing writers.