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Edmund R. Schubert is an American author

Author

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and editor

Editor

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best known for his work in the fields of science fiction

Science fiction

Science fiction is a genre of fiction dealing with imaginary but more or less plausible content such as future settings, futuristic science and technology, space travel, aliens, and paranormal abilities...

and fantasy

Fantasy

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, though some of his short stories are mysteries, including one that was a preliminary nominee for an Edgar Award

Edgar Award

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in 2006 for Best Short Story. He has also written for and edited several business magazines.

Fiction writing/editing

As a fiction author, Schubert has published over 35 short stories and one novel (Dreaming Creek, LBF Books, Oct. 2008). About half of his short stories are collected in The Trouble With Eating Clouds: A Collection of Mysteries, Magic, and Madness (Spotlight Publishing, June 2011).

He has been the editor of the online magazine publishing science fiction and fantasy, Orson Scott Card's InterGalactic Medicine Show since 2006, also co-editing with Orson Scott Card

Orson Scott Card

Orson Scott Card is an American author, critic, public speaker, essayist, columnist, and political activist. He writes in several genres, but is primarily known for his science fiction. His novel Ender's Game and its sequel Speaker for the Dead both won Hugo and Nebula Awards, making Card the...

an IGMS
Orson Scott Card's InterGalactic Medicine Show
Orson Scott Card's InterGalactic Medicine Show is an anthology edited by Edmund R. Schubert and Orson Scott Card.Originally published in paperback by Tor Books in August 2008 , It contains eighteen stories from Card's online magazine InterGalactic Medicine Show including four from Card set in his...

anthology (Tor Books

Tor Books

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, Aug. 2008). Stories edited by Schubert for IGMS have appeared in various Year's Best anthologies, been nominated for several national awards, and won the WSFA Small Press Award

WSFA Small Press Award

The WSFA Small Press Award was inaugurated by the Washington Science Fiction Association in 2007. The award is open to works of imaginative literature published in English for the first time in the previous calendar year...

for Best Short Story (2009). He is also editor of and contributor to a non-fiction book about the business and craft of writing: How To Write Magical Words: A Writer's Companion (Bella Rosa Books, January, 2011).

Schubert is a regular speaker at sf conventions in the southeastern United States, appearing on panels and teaching workshops. He is a regular blogger at MagicalWords.net (a writing blog designed to help newer writers, founded by authors Faith Hunter

Faith Hunter

Gwendolyn Faith Hunter is an American fantasy and thriller author. She writes as Faith Hunter in the fantasy genre, and as Gwen Hunter in the thriller genre. She also collaborates on thrillers with Gary Leveille, under the name Gary Hunter...

, David B. Coe

David B. Coe

David B. Coe is an author of fantasy novels and short stories.- Writing :He was the winner of the William L. Crawford Award for best first fantasy series, awarded at the International Conference on the Fantastic for Children of Amarid and The Outlanders, the first two novels of the LonTobyn...

, and Misty Massey

Misty Massey

Misty Massey is an American fantasy author. Her first novel, Mad Kestrel , was published in 2008 by Tor Books. It was given a three-star rating by Romantic Times. Massey has also published short stories in magazines....

), and has taught writing workshops at UNC-Greensboro in Greensboro, North Carolina, and at Southern Virginia University in Buena Vista, VA.

Business writing/editing

In the area of business writing, Schubert was executive editor of the regional business magazine, North Carolina Career Network Magazine from 2005–2007, and managing editor of the nationally-distributed Diversity Woman from 2007-2010. In those capacities he has interviewed and written about a wide variety of people, ranging from Jeff Kane, Officer in Charge of the Charlotte, NC branch of the Federal Reserve, to African-America icon Maya Angelou

Maya Angelou

Maya Angelou is an American author and poet who has been called "America's most visible black female autobiographer" by scholar Joanne M. Braxton. She is best known for her series of six autobiographical volumes, which focus on her childhood and early adult experiences. The first and most highly...

Partial Bibliography

Books

Futures Mystery Anthology, Twilight Publishing, May 2006 (anthology, contributor, "Good With Directions")

Tales From The Asylum: Year 3, From The Asylum Press, 2006 (anthology, contributor, "About Time")

Crypto-Critters II, Padwolf Publishing, 2007 (anthology, contributor, "Lair of the Ice Rat")

Beauty & Dynamite, Apex Publications, June 2008 (anthology, contributor, "Edmund Schubert says...")

InterGalactic Medicine Show, Tor, Aug. 2008 (anthology, co-editor)

Dreaming Creek, Lachesis/LBF Books, Oct. 2008 (novel, author)

How To Write Magical Words: A Writer's Companion, Bella Rosa Books, Jan. 2011 (non-fiction anthology, editor, contributor (multiple essays))

The Trouble With Eating Clouds: A Collection of Mysteries, Magic, and Madness, Spotlight Publishing, June 2011 (short story collection, author)

External links

Interviews

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