Former Boot Campers Published
Former Boot Campers Published
Eric James Stone
Less than a year after attending the 2003 Boot Camp, Hatrack member Eric James
Stone made his first three sales. His science fiction short story "In Memory"
was selected as a finalist in the July-September 2003 quarter of the Writers
of the Future contest and was included in volume XX. The story was actually
written before attending Boot Camp 2003, but after attending Uncle Orson's
Writing Class in 2002. In developing the plot, Eric made use of the
idea-generating technique taught during the "Thousand Ideas" session of the
class.
Another science fiction short story, "The Man Who Moved the
Moon," was selected as a winner in the 2003 Phobos Fiction Contest. Eric got
the idea for the story during an online discussion with his fellow 2003 Boot
Campers in their private forum on Hatrack. In writing the story he put to good
use what he had learned earlier that month at Boot Camp. The story was
published in the third Phobos anthology, All the Rage This
Year.
The short story Eric wrote while at Boot Camp was a fantasy
called "The Horseman and the Stoneworker." The comments and suggestions he
received regarding the story during the workshop were very helpful in revising
it. He submitted the revised version (retitled "Betrayer of Trees") to the
Writers of the Future Contest on December 31, 2003, and it won second place
for that quarter. The story was published in volume XXI.
Since then,
Eric has gone on to have over two dozen stories appear in markets such as
Orson Scott Card's InterGalactic Medicine Show, Analog Science
Fiction & Fact, Daily Science Fiction, and even the scientific
journal Nature. He has also been an assistant editor for
InterGalactic Medicine Show since 2009.
In 2011, Eric received a
nomination for the Nebula Award for Best Novelette for his story "That
Leviathan, Whom Thou Hast Made" (Analog, September
2010).
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