Chaz Brenchley
Chaz Brenchley has been making a living as a writer since he was eighteen. He is the author of nine thrillers, most recently Shelter and two fantasy series, The Books of Outremer and Selling Water by the River. As Daniel Fox he has published a Chinese-based fantasy series, beginning with Dragon in Chains, as Ben Macallan, an urban fantasy, Desdæmona.
A British Fantasy Award winner, he has also published books for children and more than 500 short stories in various genres. His time as crimewriter-in-residence on a sculpture project in Sunderland resulted in the collection Blood Waters. His first play, A Cold Coming, was performed and then toured in 2007. He is a prizewinning ex-poet, and has been writer in residence at the University of Northumbria. He was Northern Writer of the Year 2000.
Chaz is in the process of moving from Newcastle to California, with his two squabbling cats and famous teddy bear.
New: BayCon, and a new book - House of Bells: links on the News & Events page.
Below is a recent extract from Chaz'z blog:
BayCon schedule
In other newses, we will both be at BayCon, the last weekend of this month (I have no notion of actual dates; every time I ask, the answer is "Memorial Day weekend, always" - and then I ask in a more detailed manner, and "It's the last weekend in May, always." So there you go).
My schedule looks like this:
1. Location, Location, Location -- Setting your Story in a Science Fiction World on Saturday from 10:00 AM to 11:30 AM in Lafayette
(with Deborah J. Ross, Clare Bell, T.S. Luikart, Allison Lonsdale)
Your character has to live somewhere, and that somewhere needs to support the story. It's embarrassing to have a great scene all written involving bikini- or Speedo-dressed people, when they all live in the first permanent settlement on the Moon, and only landed yesterday....
2. Book View Cafe and ePublishing on Saturday from 2:30 PM to 4:00 PM in Ballroom D
(with Irene Radford, Deborah J. Ross, Dave Trowbridge, Maya Kaathryn Bohnhoff)
Book View Cafe members discuss their experiences with this authors' co-op and ePublishing.
3. Travel is My Drug of Choice on Sunday from 2:30 PM to 4:00 PM in Camino Real
(with Norm Sperling, James Stanley Daugherty, Deirdre Saoirse Moen)
Avid travelers travel for different reasons. Panelists discuss the motivations behind their enthusiasm.
4. Alternative Lifestyles and Sci-Fi/Fantasy on Sunday from 4:00 PM to 5:30 PM in Lafayette
(with Kyle Aisteach, Lon Sarver, D.M. Atkins, Ian Grey, Jaym Gates, Andrew Clark, Brad Nelson)
From Heinlein's line marriage to Ethan of Athos, a discussion of alternative lifestyles, chosen or otherwise.
Posted on Thu, 10 May 2012 19:57:36 GMT
To read more, or leave a comment, visit Chaz'z blog at desperance.livejournal.com.
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