Ask the Author: Christopher Barzak
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Christopher Barzak
Hi Suleiman, thank you so much for your words and your question. I have several other stories I've published in the past year or two that are retellings or reworkings of older classic genre oriented stories like the Trampling, and some are online like The Trampling. They do vary in tone and aim, from story to story, but share the retelling aspect in common. Here's a retelling of Peter Pan in Kensington Gardens I published at Uncanny last year, for instance: http://uncannymagazine.com/article/bo...
And here's a link to a retelling of the fairy tale The Twelve Dancing Princesses, called "Sister Twelve: Confessions of a Party Monster": http://www.apex-magazine.com/sister-t...
I'm hopeful that a full length collection of these types of stories will be published in the next year or two, so keep checking in to see about that.
My other full length collection of short stories, Before and Afterlives, won last year's Shirley Jackson Award for Best Collection, and is available to order online easily at Amazon or Barnes and Noble, and some other online book outlets. Here's a link to it at Amazon:
http://www.amazon.com/Before-Afterliv...
And if you're interested in my bibliography in general, here it is on my website:
http://christopherbarzak.com/bibliogr...
Again, thanks for your interest!
And here's a link to a retelling of the fairy tale The Twelve Dancing Princesses, called "Sister Twelve: Confessions of a Party Monster": http://www.apex-magazine.com/sister-t...
I'm hopeful that a full length collection of these types of stories will be published in the next year or two, so keep checking in to see about that.
My other full length collection of short stories, Before and Afterlives, won last year's Shirley Jackson Award for Best Collection, and is available to order online easily at Amazon or Barnes and Noble, and some other online book outlets. Here's a link to it at Amazon:
http://www.amazon.com/Before-Afterliv...
And if you're interested in my bibliography in general, here it is on my website:
http://christopherbarzak.com/bibliogr...
Again, thanks for your interest!
Christopher Barzak
The best thing about being a writer is that I'm never ever bored. I have stories that entertain me constantly, even if I have to do the work of writing them. And I get to connect with readers who have liked or loved something I've written, which is awesome. My stories and novels have connected me with some incredibly fantastic people around the world.
Christopher Barzak
I tend to not believe in writer's block as a real psychological block, so much as a period in the process of writing where a writer isn't necessarily blocked so much as figuring out how to go forward on a story or novel. So it's a place where I'm figuring things out. I go easy on myself in these periods, because feeling guilty only makes me spin my wheels and make the rut harder to climb out of. Waiting and letting myself continue to imagine the story freely, without demanding I be necessarily at the keyboard to do this, can help get me out of most ruts.
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