“From the Clay of His Heart” reprinted

I loves me golem story. It was such a joy to write. Obviously, two editors found it a joy to read as well. So it was just reprinted in Year’s Best Fantasy 9 edited by David Hartwell and Kathryn Cramer and published by Tor.com. The good thing is that there is a whole boatload of other

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Press Release – Utah Author Selected for Best SFF Stories 2008

FOR IMMEDIATE RELEASE UTAH AUTHOR SELECTED FOR BEST STORIES OF 2008 Will Present Keys to Successful Fiction at BYU Symposium LAKETOWN, UTAH |  February 9, 2009 |  Utah author John Brown’s novelette, “From the Clay of His Heart,” has just been listed as one of the best stories of 2008 by Locus Magazine, the main

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“From the Clay of His Heart” to be included in Year’s Best Fantasy #9

More good news! I just found out that my novelette, “From the Clay of His Heart,” will be included in this year’s annual Year’s Best Fantasy anthology edited by David Hartwell and Kathryn Cramer. The anthology will be released in the summer of 2009.           .

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SODG Story Edits Finished

Wahooooooo! I just turned in my final story edits to Stacy and David. The due date was November 1. The 3rd actually. The book clocks in around 177,000 words. Wow. This last set of story edits led to some great changes. Not huge ones, but nice touches. I had to rewrite part of this battle

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