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Paul Evanby's Adventures in Writing
[Natural Language Interface]
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10.2009
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New novel
My first novel, The Scrypturist, appeared this month, in Dutch, from Mynx Publishers.
Mynx is an imprint of Meulenhoff Boekerij, and has a long and proud history in the Dutch science fiction and fantasy genres, being the Dutch publisher of writers such as J.R.R. Tolkien, Frank Herbert, Terry Pratchett, Jack Vance, Robert Graves, and many others. Dutch writers on their list are Wim Gijsen, Peter Schaap, W.J. Maryson and Tais Teng.
In honour of the occasion, a new website has been created, which can be found here. All news regarding the novel will be posted there.
Or read a first review.
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04.2008
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Dutch Steampunk
My latest publication in the Netherlands is the novelette Manneken, in Wonderwaan. See these remarks. (Dutch only.)
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11.2007
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A lotus in the morning
Verschijnsel vzw, the Belgium-based follow-up to Dutch/Irish small press house Babel Publications, have just released the 2007 volume of their 'Zwartboeken' series of anthologies. Zwarte sterren 2 contains the Dutch version of my story De lotus bloeit stralend, in de woestijn.
The English translation of this story has been sold to Interzone, and will be published under the title I Love the Smell of the Lotus in the Morning. Publication date is still uncertain, but I expect it to be somewhere in 2008.
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12.2006
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HGMLQ
Last month saw the publication of volume 8, no. 2 of Harrington Gay Men's Literary Quarterly (Binghamton, New York), recently renamed from something equally unwieldy. My story Hiçbiryer'e is in it. I'm impressed with the way the typesetters have been able to nail every one of those Turkish names!
For the Dutchies, the original version of this story is in my collection Gödel Slam, still available from Babel.
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09.2006
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British Fantasy Award!
The Elastic Book of Numbers has won the 2006 British Fantasy Award for Best Anthology. This is great news, and need I say that I am immensely proud to be part of it? If you still haven't purchased your copy: the publisher says he has now run out, but copies can still be ordered online, for instance from Amazon or the BBR Catalogue.
The line-up for the awards can be found on the site of the British Fantasy Society, but here's the list of winners anyway:
- Best Novel: Neil Gaiman, Anansi Boys, (Headline)
- Best Novella: Stuart Young, 'The Mask Behind the Face', The Mask Behind the Face & Other Stories, (Pendragon Press)
- Best Anthology: Allen Ashley, The Elastic Book of Numbers, (Elastic Press)
- Best Collection: Joe Hill, 20th Century Ghosts, (PS Publishing)
- Best Short Fiction: Joe Hill, 'Best New Horror' Postscripts #3 & 20th Century Ghosts, (PS Publishing)
- Best Artist: Les Edwards
- Best Small Press: Peter Crowther, PS Publishing
- BFS Special Award: 'The Karl Edward Wagner Award': Stephen Jones
- BFS Committee Founders Award: Keith Walker, Rosemary Pardoe, Phil Spencer, David Sutton
Pictures of the event can be found on Allen's site (scroll down) and on the Elastic Press news page.
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12.2005
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Numbers update
Several reviews of The Elastic Book of Numbers have now appeared on-line and in print. Check out this one at Tangent Online, for example. Or this one at The Harrow. There's also a more extended treatment at the Livejournal shortform community. It's spread out over a few months, though, so here is the link to the first installment, containing the review for i.
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02.2005
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Numbers
My latest story, "i", has been published in The Elastic Book of Numbers, a themed multi-author anthology in which every story has a number in the title and at its core. The book was officially launched in London on February 5th, and it was great to meet many of the other contributors, and of course the editor, Allen Ashley, there.
So is i a number? Yes, it is. And a very interesting one at that. Buy the book, read the story, and find out... Seriously, the book looks and feels gorgeous, very high quality; and the content is truly the bee's knees. I consider myself very privileged to share a cover with such a company of talented writers.
On the home front, the Dutch version of i has by now appeared in Babel's new "Zwartboeken" series: Zwarte sterren 1 contains new science-fiction from the Low Lands, by seven writers including yours truly.
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11.2004
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Utopiales
Just returned from UTOPIALES, a 5-day SF/Fantasy festival in Nantes, France. Literature, movies, comics, games, art, any and all of the modi we "creators of the unreal" use to express ourselves, were represented. I was there as one of about 60 authors invited from all over the world to embody the literary dimension.
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05.2004
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Interview
An interview with Guido Eekhaut, Tais Teng and Paul Evenblij, authors of the most recent Babel books, has appeared in the May/June issue of Dutch print magazine SF Terra. About books, writing, publishing SF and Fantasy in Holland, and much more.
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02.2004
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Latest book
Yes! It's here. And it's for sale. Gödel Slam is the new (Dutch) story collection. It contains some old and some new, hitherto unpublished work. The title story has won the 2001 Millennium Prize, as some may know. Published by Dublin-based One Door Publications' Babel imprint, the continuation of venerable Dutch small press house Babel Publications. Have a look at the Books page.
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02.2004
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Latest stories
My latest English publication has now officially been 'denemonized'. Lucia was published anonymously in Nemonymous 3, spring 2003. Author names for that issue have now been disclosed. Nemonymous 4, to appear this spring, will contain my 'denemonisation piece'.
Paul Evenblij's most recent Dutch short, Het Gulden Wiel van de Onkenbare Ratio, has seen publication in Waen Sinne 2, madly dangerous magazine with two dangerously mad editors.
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02.2004
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A new year, a new coat!
Because the old site was getting... well, old. So I got rid of some padding, ditched the totally pretentious first page, did some lifting, some tucking, some grooming, and voilá: total make-over. A Queer Eye for the Queer Guy, so to speak.
Basically the site now only consists of the Fiction section (this one) and the Software section. Fiction contains the bibliography, the bio (I love that bio:) and mayhap some other stuff. The sample stories are still off-line, and I don't know yet if they'll return. They are most definitely no longer among my best works, and they never seemed to be the most popular pages anyway.
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