2012 - 02/2012 Meeting

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ALAYA DAWN JOHNSON

Official Site: http://www.alayadawnjohnson.com/

Books:

The Zepher Hollis Novels:

..........The Wicked City (forthcoming)

..........Moonshine

The Spirit Binders Trilogy:

..........The Burning City

..........Racing the Dark

Middle Grade Choose-Your-Own-Adventure Graphic Novels

..........Detective Frankenstein

..........The Goblin King

Short Works (On Line)

.....Down the Well (Strange Horizons)

http://www.strangehorizons.com/2008/20080804/well-f.shtml

.....Shard of Glass (Strange Horizons, Two Parts)

http://www.strangehorizons.com/2005/20050214/shard-1-f.shtml

http://www.strangehorizons.com/2005/20050221/0shard-2-f.shtml

.....The Yeast of Fire (Strange Horizons)

http://www.strangehorizons.com/2009/20090907/yeast-f.shtml

.....Their Changing Bodies (Subterranean Press)

http://subterraneanpress.com/index.php/magazine/summer-2011/fiction-their-changing-bodies-by-alaya-dawn-johnson/

Criticism:

.....The Revenant of Tokyo Bay: Godzilla and the Japanese Ghost (The Internet Review of Science Fiction, March 2004)

http://www.irosf.com/q/zine/article/10031

MEETING SUMMARY:

Meeting Date: February 11, 2012

Meeting Site: Saddle River Valley Cultural Center, Upper Saddle River.

Official Attendance: 23.

Meeting Program: Talk by Fanasy Writer

Notes:

Literary agent (and past guest) Eddie Schneider attended the meeting.

Newsletter Account:

The following account is reprinted with permission from THE STARSHIP EXPRESS Copyright 2012 Philip J De Parto:

Fantasy writer Alaya Dawn Johnson spoke at the Association's General Meeting on Saturday, February 11, 2012 at the Saddle River Valley Cultural Center in Upper Saddle River, New Jersey. Episodes of THE TWELVE KINGDOMS were shown by our Animation Associates. The Ice Nine discussion focused mostly on TV series and the interplay between movies and comic books.

Ms Johnson is the author of three fantasy novels (MOONSHINE, RACING THE DARK and THE BURNING CITY), two graphic novels, and a smattering of short stories, poems and non fiction articles which have appeared in STRANGE HORIZONS and other magazines and also in original anthologies like ZOMBIES VS UNICORNS.

Among the subjects the author discussed were the writing process, how shelving by Barnes & Noble and Borders has effected her sales, how e-books are changing the readership of books, work for hire, living in Japan, travel, non western fantasy, YA fantasy and favorite books, movies and television.

Alaya Dawn Johnson wrote her first book when she was six. Here teenage years saw her writing fan fiction. Eventually Ms Johnson sold a couple of books of her own creation. Agate Books published the author's first two novels. Agate is primarily an academic book publisher but decided to experiment in publishing fantasy. The first book came out in hardcover and was placed on the science fiction shelves. The sequel was placed on the African-American shelves and did not sell as well. This pattern of random shelving continued when she launched a new series with MacMillan. Borders shelved it as science fiction where it sold well. Barnes & Noble shelved it as mainstream and it sold poorly.

Additional material will be found on the 02/2012 Meeting Page on the club website.