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Lisa Tuttle
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Excerpt
I fell in love with the book as soon as I touched it.
The smoothness of the supple leather binding, the slight, light weight of it, the way it fell so comfortably, so confidingly, into my hand; it felt like a friend from the very start.
Bio
I was born and raised in Houston, Texas; I spent six years working on a newspaper in Austin, then moved to Britain, where I've lived ever since -- for the past almost eighteen years in a small house in a big forest on the shores of a loch, on the west coast of Scotland, with my husband, Colin Murray (another writer!) and our daughter. My writing career was launched after I attended my first Clarion -- the odd one held at Tulane in New Orleans -- the summer of 1971, when I was eighteen. The next year I went to Clarion West in Seattle. I returned as a teacher there in 1991, accompanied by my five-month-old daughter (surely the youngest attendee ever?) and my mother. As Judy Collins never sang, I've looked at Clarion from both sides now.
Publications
Most recently, the novels:
The Silver Bough, The Mysteries, and The Pillow Friend (all from Bantam).
I've also written a writing handbook, Writing Fantasy & Science Fiction (2nd edition, 2005) published by A&C Black in the U.K.
A hefty sampling of my best short stories can be found at Fictionwise.
Writing Description
How would I describe my writing? Bipolar? Odd? Trans-generic? Feminist? I do write science fiction, fantasy, and horror, but nearly always on the margins.
Goals
Once upon a time, summers were the most productive of writing times for me, but not since motherhood. Now, writing when school's out -- and that covers the entire Write-a-thon period -- is so difficult that my goal every summer is simply to get SOMETHING, ANYTHING, written. But this year, I will have to do better. I have two novels in progress -- one is MAGIC PICTURES, a rough first draft now, which needs to be extensively revised. The other is an unfinished fantasy for younger readers called THE FITH-FATH ISLAND. I started it several years ago and then stopped, but I recently had some ideas that got me excited about it again. Which to work on? I'm still not sure, but my minimum goal is to have at least 50 GOOD pages written by the end of the six weeks, whether it's final copy of MAGIC PICTURES or extending the first draft of FITH-FATH. And if I manage to write more than 50 pages -- well, I'll be thrilled.
I'll tell at least ten friends and relatives about the Write-a-thon and hope they'll be willing to contribute something.
Website
I've just started a Live Journal -- inspired by the Write-a-thon and a comment made by George RR Martin -- at http://lisatuttle.livejournal.com/.
