Eric James Stone

It’s time once again for BYU’s science fiction and fantasy symposium: Life, the Universe, and Everything. Here’s my schedule:

Thursday, Feb. 11

• Noon: Mormons in Horror
  Believe it or not, there are active LDS who read, edit and write horror fiction.  What tensions do they see with their faith and culture and this genre?  How does their belief color what they find “really scary”?
  (Dan Wells, Eric Swedin, Michael R. Collings, Eric James Stone, Lee Allred (M))

Friday, Feb. 12

• Noon: Who influenced me as a writer?
  (Eric James Stone, Kathleen Dalton-Woodbury, Berin Stephens, Jake Black, Michael Young)
• 3:00 PM:  How to build aliens and fantastic (but believable) monsters
  (Helge Moulding, Roger White, Eric James Stone, Brian Hailes, Kathleen Dalton-Woodbury)

Saturday, Feb. 13

• 1:00 PM: SIGNING: Brandon Mull, Brandon Sanderson, Howard Tayler, Eric James Stone, Berin Stephens, Jake Black, Roger White, Lisa Mangum, Aleta Clegg, Mette Ivie Harrison, John Brown
• 5:00 PM: READING: Dan Wells / Eric James Stone
• 6:00 PM: How to write a good short story.  You have to be concise, clear, articulate, and still keep the reader’s interest.  What does a short story writer need to know/do to write a great short story?
  (Robert J Defendi, Suzanne Vincent, Eric James Stone, Kathleen Dalton-Woodbury, Brad R. Torgensen)

Whether or not you can nominate stories for the Nebula Award, I’m allowing free access to read my short story “The Robot Sorcerer” until the Nebula nomination period ends on February 15, 2010.  The story was originally published in the December 2008 issue of InterGalactic Medicine Show, and under the transition to the new Nebula Awards rules, it is eligible along with stories published in 2009.

Click here to read “The Robot Sorcerer.”

My story “Attitude Adjustment,” which was published in the September 2009 issue of Analog, has been selected for The Year’s Best SF #15, edited by David G. Hartwell and Kathryn Cramer.  This is the first time one of my stories has been chosen for one of the annual year’s-best anthologies, and I feel very honored.  The anthology should be out in May.