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Welcome to the Home Page
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KAREN
JORDAN ALLEN
 writer of fantasy, science fiction, and other literary adventures |
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ABOUT ME
 I started
reading, making up stories, and playing the piano when I was five - if
not sooner -
and never stopped. Well, hardly ever. After brief
forays
into graduate school, the pastorate, college publications, and high
school teaching, I now write fantasy and science fiction at my home
in Maine. I also
play
the piano for several school choruses and my church, and I love
spending time outdoors. A former Spanish teacher, I have
traveled to Mexico, Puerto Rico, Ecuador, Argentina, and Peru, as well
as England, Canada, and China. I am an active member of the
Science Fiction and Fantasy Writers of America (SFWA) and the Society
of Children's Book Writers and Illustrators (SCBWI).RECENT PUBLICATIONS AND REVIEWS "Alternate Anxieties," Interfictions: An Anthology of Interstitial Writing, Delia Sherman and Theodora Goss, eds., Interstitial Arts Foundation: April 2007.
“'a
marvellous, touching example of
experimental writings gone right"
-AS if! Australian Specfic in
focus/Tansy Rayner Roberts
"Godburned,"
Asimov's
Science Fiction, September 2006.
"a well-crafted merging of cultures and spirituality"
-Tangent Online/Suzanne
Church
"captures an outsider's experience of
Mexico beautifully."
-Locus/Nick Gevers
"Orqo Afloat on the Willkamayu," The First Heroes: New Tales of the Bronze Age, Harry Turtledove and Noreen Doyle, eds., Tor: May 2004.
"full of interesting detail about Inca life . . . the ending snaps with
energy."
-SFSite.com/Sherwood
Smith on "Orqo Afloat on the Willkamayu"
NEWS
AND NOTES
Don't
miss my story, "Alternate
Anxieties," in Interfictions:
An Anthology of Interstitial Fiction. It's my
most experimental work to date, and it received a great review in AS if! Australian Specfic in focus.
For more about Interfictions,
visit the Interfictions
blog. Interfictions
is available from Amazon.com
and other booksellers.
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On a recent Sunday afternoon (June 24) I participated on a panel of fantasy writers at the Maine Festival of the Book in Portland. The other panelists were Kristen Britain, James Hetley, and my good friend Noreen Doyle. Bookseller Gibran Graham served as the perfect moderator. About two dozen people attended the panel on a beautiful day when they could have gone to the beach instead. They were attentive and enthusiastic, and asked good questions. I took a copy of Interfictions, and spoke about the anthology and my story in the course of the discussion. Afterward at least two people bought copies, and I signed another three or four for the bookstore. Noreen and I also signed copies of The First Heroes. We heard from the festival organizers that our panel received stellar reviews! * * *
My writing buddy and critique group member, Robin Merrow MacCready, won the MWA's Edgar Award for Best YA Mystery with her first novel, Buried, published in September 2006 by Dutton. We are all absolutely thrilled for her. * * *
I occasionally turn
up at science fiction conventions in the Northeast, such as Boskone and
Readercon. Look for me every year at SCBWI-New England's
fabulous annual conference in Nashua, New Hampshire.
Photo
by Noreen Doyle
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LINKS
SFWA
- Science
Fiction and Fantasy Writers of America
SCBWI - Society of Children's Book Writers and Illustrators SCBWI-New England - New England regional chapter of SCBWI |
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