Brenda W. Clough

My new series, The Adventures of Marian Halcombe, is being published by Book View Cafe in 2021, one novel per month beginning in January!

I write science fiction and fantasy, mainly novels. Ten of my novels have been published. My recent novels are available in e-format. My latest novel A Most Dangerous Woman is available now on Serial Box! (Click on the picture to the left.) The previous novel, Doors of Death and Life, was published by Tor Books in May 2000, to generally favorable reviews. It was a sequel to How Like a God, which was published in March 1997. I have a number of other novels to come.

I also write short stories and occasional non-fiction. I have a story in Patrick Nielsen Hayden's anthology Starlight 3. My short story, "Below, Between, Above" was published in a new anthology, How Beer Saved the World. Click on "LOOK INSIDE" to read my story in its entirety. Laura Anne Hill created a Promotional trailer for the book. I have a story in Witch Way to the Mall.

I blog every week at the Book View Cafe Blog. Check out the Book View Cafe Bookstore

Every now and then I teach "Writing F&SF" at the Writer's Center in Bethesda, MD.

I turn up at a lot of Science Fiction conventions. Lance Oszko gave me a photograph of me at the World Fantasy Convention in 1995. Jane Jewell took a photograph of my old college roommate, Laurie Mann, and me at Boskone.

I volunteer for the Science Fiction Writers of America. Recently I produced a whimsical diagram urging members to run for office within the organization.

I knit and hang out with local knitters. I paint – walls, furniture, and water colors.

I live in a cottage a the edge of a forest with my husband Larry, the computer geek who built this web page. We renovated the kitchen in 1996 and the master bath in 2002. We are renovating the guest bath in 2010. The garden is steadily devouring the lawn, and Larry built a stone terrace.

As a girl, I attended the American School of Vientiane, Laos.

Samples

• This is a sample from my short story "The Water Weapon," which appeared in THE DRAGON AND THE STARS, edited by Derwin Mak and Eric Choi (DAW 2010). It's a little steampunky alternate history.
• Audio link to a reading of an original short story, "Maiden Mechanical".
• Times 50, my short story, originally published in Christianity Today, was selected for The Human Genre Project. I am on Chromosome X.

My Itinerary

• I will be at BALTICON on Sunday, May 27!

Reviews

• My short story, "The Water Weapon," mentioned in a review by Cathy Green at SFRevu.
• A review of Speak to our Desires by Colleen Cahill at SFRevu.
• A review of Revise the World by Steven Silver on SFSite.
• A review of Revise the World by Colleen Cahill at SFRevu.
• A review of May Be Some Time on Infinity Plus,
• A review of How Like a God on Christian Fandom
• A review of Doors of Death and Life on Christian Fandom
• Pete Tillman's review of "May Be Some Time".
• Why Stan Schmidt's slush pile is going to explode this year!

Interviews

• Geek World interview by Rebecca Lovett
• SFRevu - Feb '98 Vol. 2.2: Interview

Acknowledgments

• Kathi Overton scanned the cover to the hardback edition of Doors of Death and Life.
• Lawrence Watt-Evans scanned in the other book covers and the picture of the painted bookcase.
• Lance Oszko scanned in the picture of me at World Fantasy Con, 1995.
• Ned Sublette took the photo at the top of this page.

Links

• A photo of me reading at KGB in New York posted on Laurie Mann's site.
• Pictures from a trip to New York City with Laurie Mann just before Christmas 2001.
• FoxAcre Press is a new Small Press Publisher