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Former Boot Campers Published
Eric James Stone
Since attending the 2003 Boot Camp, Hatrack member Eric James Stone has 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 will be included in their anthology this fall. 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 will be
published in the Phobos anthology this fall.
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 was recently notified that it
had won second place for that quarter. The story should be published in their
2005 anthology.
About six months after the 2003 Boot Camp, Eric used what he had learned to write a novelette, "Resonance." The story follows an entrepreneur racing to win the prize for building the first space elevator, despite opposition from lawyers and terrorists. One of Eric's aspirations as a writer was to eventually be published in Analog, and it happened far more quickly than he expected: "Resonance" appears in the September 2005 issue.
He has also had two stories ("Taint of Treason" and "Salt of Judas") published online in Orson Scott Card's
InterGalactic Medicine Show.
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