by Lou J Berger | Nov 11, 2017 | News
Today is the launch of the “More Alternative Truths” anthology! From the foreword by David Gerrold, all the way to Jane Yolen’s cutting poem “Trickster Times,” this is an anthology of funny and heart-wrenching tales of what MAY happen if...
by Lou J Berger | Nov 8, 2017 | News
I want to chat about the Writers and Illustrators of the Future contest. For many beginning writers (and illustrators, but I’m going to only talk about the writing side), the WoTF contest is a nice way to hurl your creations up against the wall of professional...
by Lou J Berger | Nov 4, 2017 | News
Bob Brown, editor emeritus, asked me to contribute a story to his second anthology dealing with Alternative Truths, entitled “More Alternative Truths.” It gave me an idea to finally go ahead and write a story that’s been bouncing around in my...
by Lou J Berger | Nov 27, 2016 | News
If you’re reading this, you probably are aware that my latest story, “Epena’s Epiphany” is part of Faith Hunter’s TRIALS anthology. I’m not a fantasy guy, not really. If you’ve read my other works, however, you may have come...
by Lou J Berger | Nov 19, 2016 | News
Faith Hunter, NYT best-selling author and dear friend, invited me to join a select few to write stories set in her “Rogue Mage” world. Well, folks, the story is done, and the anthology is coming out next week! Warm kudos to my fellow authors and, if...
by Lou J Berger | Nov 2, 2016 | News
Rob is a member of the NCWW, a writer’s workshop here in Denver, and I was fortunate enough to read an early draft of his new novel HUNDRED GHOST SOUP a couple years ago. I loved it! Even in it’s half-formed state, this novel had a depth, a richness, to it...
by Lou J Berger | Mar 7, 2015 | News
Writers are, in the course of their tutelage, exhorted to show their story, not tell it. As you read this, however, you are about to learn why it’s sometimes appropriate to break this rule. See what I did there? I gave you some insight about what’s to...
by Lou J Berger | Sep 12, 2014 | News
As other writers have mentioned to me, sometimes life manifests situations so improbable that, if you were to write them into a story, no reader would accept them as plausible. And yet… I walked through the dealer room at Reno’s WorldCon, showing my...
by Lou J Berger | Mar 22, 2014 | News
As mentioned earlier, I began my writing career back just shy of my 40th birthday, and one of the earliest things I did was reach out to one of my heroes, Gardner Dozois. If you don’t know Gardner, he’s won fifteen Hugo Awards for Best Editor, short...
by Lou J Berger | Mar 2, 2014 | News
Ron and Nina Else have, with me and with other local Denver authors, been the most supportive, positive and encouraging people I’ve met in Denver who aren’t also writers.I see them at MileHiCon, I see them at Bubonicon (regional New Mexico SF convention)...
