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Brenda Clough's Home Page

[Clough] hi!
[Cybling] Welcome to Chicon Brenda!
[Clough] I was eating dinner, and realized wow! it's after 7!
[Ryan] Ohhh
[Cybling] folks...this is Brenda Clough...she's written six novels....
[Kai] hello
[Talos] hi
[Cybling] and if you've visited rec.arts.sf.written... you've seen her post there as well.
[Clough] They lost my suitcase, and for a while I was going to have to wear the same clothes for four days, but now they've found it again and all is well.
[Cybling] Oh my god!!!
[Cybling] Well I'm glad you made it to the convention Brenda!
[Clough] My husband told me that nowadays when you fly you shouldjust resign yourself to humiliation, degradation, and misery.
[Cybling] LOLOL.. So true! Brenda, your most recent novel, _The Doors of Life and Death_ was published in may by Tor.
[Cybling] Can you tell us a little about it?
[Clough] It's so boring to say that it's about a pair of guys with some problems, but it's true.
[Clough] Although Eddie does go to the Moon colony
[Clough] I think that's why it has a SFnal cover.
[Cybling] Would you class this as a near future SF novel.
[Cybling] ?
[Clough] Oh yeah.
[Cybling] About how far into the future?
[Clough] It's set, I forget, about 2007 or something. Not far.
[Cybling] No, that's not far at all.
* Kai sneezes sick as a dog right now
[Clough] But I had to write about NASA and the moon colony and stuff, so I suppose it's really an alternate history by now!
[Clough] I couldn't wait for NASA to get itself in gear, now could I?
[Cybling] that's true...I know the lead time for publication is pretty long these days 1 to 2 years...when was the novel actually finished?
[Cybling] If you have questions for our guest, please just ask. But please, let the guest answer one question before you ask another.
[Clough] I finished it ages ago. Maybe in 1997?
[Clough] It just takes a long time to work through the pipeline.
[Cybling] So, I'm betting you have another novel in the works right now as well as one in the pipeline?
[Clough] I can write them faster than they print them.
* Ryan chuckles.
[Clough] I have another book sitting on my editor's desk, and yet a different book about to go to my agent.
[Ryan] thats sad in a way
[Cybling] Excellent.
[Clough] This latest book is the one that I've sold the first 19,000 words of to ANALOG, as a novella.
[Ryan] You actually counted the words?
[Clough] I have to leave pretty soon.
[Kai] well nice meeting you
[Ryan] I'd think you'd sell by pages or something...
[Clough] Well sure, Ryan, that's easy if you have a word count feature on your processor.
[Clough] Analog pays by the word, so it is nice to have a count.
[Cybling] Folks...we have to say goodbye to Brenda now...
[Ryan] ahh.
[Cybling] but she'll be back tomorrow night for the Literary Scams panel....
[Cybling] at 6:00 pm Central Time.
[Clough] I'll drop by some other time though. And I'll be here at 6 pm tomorrow (Friday) for the scams thing.
[Ryan] Heh
[Cybling] Okay. Thanks Brenda!
[Clough] And maybe some other time.
[St4rchild] buh-bye