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[Cybling] Welcome to chat Lisa!
[DuMond] Hi Aaron!
[Cybling] Good to have you here today.
[Cybling] If you have questions for our guest, please just ask. But please, let the guest answer one question before you ask another.
* FireClaw waves to Lisa then sits down again and glues herself to the seat
[FireClaw] Just so that peer doesn't get me again
[rashotam] Hello how's the chat going?
[DuMond] We are just now starting up.
[Cybling] Okay Lisa, I see from your website that you've sold Cold As Hades and it's due to come out in June of 2000.
[Cybling] Can you tell us a little about it?
[DuMond] Its a mix of sc-fi, horror, humor and mystery and I have copies for sale right here at chicon
[Cybling] Your website is http://www.hikeeba.com/hades/ right?
[DuMond] yes indeed it is.
[Cybling] Excellent. And I believe we have that linked from your log page here.
[DuMond] you can also get there by www.meviews.com and www.lisadumond.com
[DuMond] half the site is a collection of all my reviews (over 200) of sc-fi horror and fantasy
[DuMond] and the other half is my fiction, bio, blurry picture, etc.
[Cybling] sc-fi horror...now that's a mix of the two genres?
[Russ] Hello
[DuMond] hello Russ
[Cybling] Where can we usually find your reviews?
[DuMond] SFSite.com, scifinow.com, blackgate.com, disenchanted.com
[DuMond] Oh ruzich is the amazing artist who did the cover of Darkers
[Cybling] Lisa, I don't believe you told us who's publishing Cold as Hades. Who's the publisher again?
[ruzich] Hey DuMond, how's it going?
[DuMond] Hard Shell Word Factory is the publisher. You can also get the book at their website as well as Amazon.
[Cybling] Lisa, you're scheduled for an autographing session later today, and a panel, Reviewing SF Books on Friday...
[ruzich] This is a great chanc to ask you - where did you get your inspiration for Hades?
[Cybling] will you be autographing a particular book at the session?
[Cybling] Most of us folks don't know how those work.
[ruzich] inspiration for Hades?
[DuMond] inspiration came from looking at goth, punk people trying to be "cool"
[ruzich] (I'm just figuring out the controls here -sorry
[DuMond] yes I will be autographing Darkers today.
[DuMond] I saw the characters in Darkers as people who wanted the ultimate "cool"
[Cybling] Excellent...so there are copies here for sale at the convention?
[ruzich] What are you working on now?
[DuMond] copies will be for sale IF they arrive at 11:00
[DuMond] as the publisher promised.
[Cybling] LOL. Yes, things can get a little backed up...
[Cybling] at the loading dock.
[DuMond] I'm working on a collaboration for a dark realism novel with an established author.
[DuMond] hello AJPOP (wink)
[DuMond] (the wink was from the other one)
[Cybling] Lisa, you're going to be on a panel on Friday...
[Cybling] Reviewing SF Books...is there something different about reviewing...
[ruzich] Which one?
[Cybling] novels than, say, short stories?
[DuMond] (shawn)
[AJPOP] Who is this "established author" you're collaborating with?
[DuMond] I only review short stories as part of a collection, anthology or chap book
[Cybling] novels than, say, short stories?
[DuMond] it needs to be of something that is say book length
[DuMond] with novels you have to watch more the continuity, the speed, the timing
[DuMond] and character development
[DuMond] short stories you have the same things but in a very compressed format so things can't always be developed as fully
[DuMond] sorry AJPOP, can't give the name. YET.
[rashotam] Hi again (had to run take care of an experiment), as a reviewer and author do you think that very public science projects like the human genome project are having an influence on sc fiction writing?
[DuMond] YES. just a whiff of such experiments or theories immediately show up in sc-fi and other genres
[Ryan] Lisa, I noticed that the first three chapters of your book is available on your website, which brings a question to my mind.... Putting entire books on the web seems to be getting more common. What do you think of this?
[AJPOP] How did you get into writing and reviewing in the first place? What was your "break" into the field?
[Cybling] Please hold on questions...we have two here.
[DuMond] Ryan - it is possible and its certainly going to happen but some people just will not read on computer especially if they work on computers all day
* Ryan nods.
[DuMond] AJPOP - I've been writing for about 18 years. I got started in reviewing when I saw that SFSite.com was looking for reviewers and they accepted my first submission.
[DuMond] I've been with them almost 3 years now.
[Cybling] If you have questions for our guest, please just ask. But please, let the guest answer one question before you ask another.
[Ken_of_the_White_Crane] Do you review only fiction or non-fiction as well?
* FireClaw is sorry if she's so quiet, but is doing her usual activities in the background ... can't wait w/ them since her ISP is a pretty unstable one, very, very sorry!
[DuMond] Who are these other folks and why aren't they talking?
[Cybling] LOL
[Russ] Sorry - I was trying to be patient (got a note when I logged on telling me to wait my turn)
[DuMond] Ken - I review both as long as they are related to they field and I will stretch pretty far to include certain books.
[DuMond] Russ speak now.
[Cybling] Russ...please ask your questions if you have them!
[Cybling] 8^D
[Cybling] Okay...once again, for the folks who came in late...
[Cybling] Darkers will be for sale to the public...
[Cybling] now.
[Cybling] And you can get it at Amazon com, and of course your better bookstores.
[Russ] I just wanted to know how things are going with the publication of Darkers - sorry if this was already asked, I missed a few minutes.
[DuMond] and feel free to buy as many copies as you can carry
[Cybling] LOL!
[Ken_of_the_White_Crane]
*smiles at the shameless plug
*
[Cybling] 8^D
[DuMond] Russ - its fine, its out. It will be out here at the convention, you can also get it at Hard Shell, Amazon and of course my website darkers.hikeeba.com
[DuMond] Ken - I never miss a chance for self promotion
[Ken_of_the_White_Crane] Nor should you.
* Ryan chuckles.
[Cybling] It's the wisest thing. Of course, Lisa, we'll be wanting to get you out here again in the near future to chat with us a Cybling.
[Russ] What will your next book be after Darkers?
[DuMond] Its the collaboration I mentioned earlier tentatively titled Bible Belt
[Cybling] Ah...sounds interesting...
[Cybling] can you give us any previews?
[Russ] Sorry - like I said I missed a few minutes
[DuMond] yes... involves a serial killer and an FBI agent and I am writing the part of the FBI agent and my collaborator who is male is writing the part of the serial killer
[Cybling] Sounds exciting Lisa.
[DuMond] well its a new experience because we are alternating chapters.
[Cybling] Lisa, I meant to ask you as well...do you do short fiction as well as novel length works?
[DuMond] yes. I have a short story coming out in an EOS anthology unnamed so far
[DuMond] coming out next year
[Cybling] No month yet?
[AJPOP] Any idea when we can expect the collaborative piece to be available to the public?
[DuMond] nothing yet.
[DuMond] about an year and half from this point
[Cybling] That's a long wait but not that unusual in the publishing world.
[Cybling] If you have questions for our guest, please just ask. But please, let the guest answer one question before you ask another.
[DuMond] quite true. ebooks move much faster.
[Ken_of_the_White_Crane] How much research do you put into a work like your collaboration?
[DuMond] Serial killer phenomenon and all the forensic sciences I've studied for 15 years
[DuMond] but it wasn't all in preparation for this novel
[DuMond] :-)
[ruzich] Do you both confer constantly while writing
[ruzich] your respective chapters?
[DuMond] no. not constantly. we send each other the alternating chapters and he wrote the outline.
[AJPOP] What authors do you feel have inspired your writing?
[DuMond] so far both parties are pleased.
[DuMond] Bob Shaw, John Sladek, Brian Hughes, John Wyndam to name a few
[Cybling] Folks...
[Cybling] do we have any last questions for Lisa!
[Cybling] The dealers room
*just opened
* here at the convention. lol!
[DuMond] I'd like to thank everyone I gave a negative review to for not joining in. :)
[Cybling] LOL!
[Cybling] Folks. Let's give Lisa a hand for joining us today!!!
* Cybling applause
[DuMond] Be sure to visit the website at www.hikeeba.com today! (shameless plug)
[ruzich] CHEERS!!!!!
[TISP_Zalkava] Heh
[DuMond] I'm outta here.
* Ryan claps and smiles.
* TISP_Zalkava claps
* TISP_Zalkava throws confetti around
* Creeper claps
* TISP_Zalkava throws a large party and drinks too much whiskey
[TISP_Zalkava] ^_^
[ruzich] "Stomping feet"
[Fenrir] Crazy people...
[TISP_Zalkava] I Toraq-hun, DuMond!
[ruzich] "holding a lighter"