Un-editing Joe Abercrombie: How The Heroes Might Have Looked If A Developing Writer Had Written It
Hello. Long time no see. Below I have taken an excerpt from The Heroes and added some very common writing ‘problems’ that I find while...
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I was senior editor at Grimdark Magazine, a professional, quarterly e-zine featuring the top names and brightest newcomers in dark fantasy fiction, for six years. I edited all stories and content for GdM from January 2016 to November 2022. I also edited all stories in and the introduction to the 2017 Reddit r/fantasy Stabby-award-winning anthology, Evil is a Matter of Perspective, released in March 2017. Some of the authors whose stories and columns I've edited include Locus Award winner R. Scott Bakker, Nebula Award winner Aliette de Bodard, Arthur C. Clark Award winner Adrian Tchaikovsky, Reddit Fantasy Stabby Award winner Michael R. Fletcher, Bram Stoker nominee James A. Moore, Writer of the Future winner T. R. Napper, and lots more. I have also worked on non-fiction for the brilliant design professor, Alex Wright, on his Oxford-published monograph, Cataloging the World: Paul Otlet and the Birth of the Information Age. I have also edited novels recently for award-winning authors Rob J Hayes and Eileen Mueller.
I have a BA in British literature from Brown University, an MA in British and American literature from California State, an MS in English language arts education from Long Island University, and an MBA from University of South Florida.
Rob J. Hayes, author of The Heresy Within (The Ties That Bind Book 1) and The Fifth Empire of Man (Best Laid Plans Book 2) and also SPFBO finalist Never Die, which I edited.
Adrian Collins, editor in chief, Grimdark Magazine. From Fantasy Hive blog June 15, 2018.
Alex Marshall, author of The Crimson Empire series (Orbit), for Grimdark Magazine story "Bloody Roots." From email to editor-in-chief, December 2019 (used with permission).
ML Spencer, author of The Rhenwars Saga and The Chaos Cycle, for Grimdark Magazine story "Guardian of the Grove." From email to editor-in-chief, November 2019 (used with permission).
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