Steve Nagy's wonderful "A Paradigm of Coats" is ... an artfully conceived allegory of growth, freedom, and change.
--Tangent Online
Steve Nagy leads off [Gathering The Bones] with "The Hanged Man of Oz," a creepy riff on The Wizard of Oz that subversively sets the "we're not in Kansas any more" tone for [the] selections that follow.
--Publisher's Weekly
[Gathering The Bones] kicks off brightly with Steve Nagy's "The Hanged Man of Oz", about a new figure discovered in the Judy Garland movie, a hanged man in the woods where the live trees are tricked into giving up their apples. And Dorothy and the Tin Man and Scarecrow, as well as the Wicked Witch, are not the characters you thought they were. Fun and inventive....
--Kirkus Reviews
Butcher, Baker, ...
For those not in the know (which is practically everyone I'm not related to, work with, or monkey around with), my name is Steve Nagy and I'm an aspiring writer.
I didn't seriously start writing until 1996 when I sat down and read Stephen King's "Desperation" -- which matched an idea I'd had years before but never finished writing. I finally decided to quit ignoring my muse and fertilize the ideas she kept dropping on my head. I figured if I can get an idea that Stephen King liked, my ideas aren't too bad.
My story THE HANGED MAN OF OZ appeared in the anthology GATHERING THE BONES by Dennis Etchison, Jack Dann, and Ramsey Campbell. I've given the anthology its own page, which lists the table of contents. Tor published it in the US and HarperCollins in the UK and Australia. It is available through the normal online booksellers. The story was reprinted in The Mammoth Book of Best New Horror, Volume Fifteen, edited by Stephen Jones. You can find the review page I made for it here
General News
Everyone's got to start somewhere, and while I've been writing for five (six-seven) years, my list of finished and current works is not long. Writing novels cuts down on your productivity as far as the number of works is concerned while still adding to the number of words :-) I've broken out my list of completed and ongoing projects here, so feel free to check it out.
Journal
Ramblings and musings about current and ongoing projects
Rumor Mill
The Sock Monkeys:
Keri Arthur
Jan Corso
Lisa Deguchi
Charlie Finlay
Caroline Heske
Karin Lowachee
Steve Perry
Marsha Sisolak
Jason Venter
Links
MarsDust
Online Writing Workshop for SF & F
The official Stephen King web site
Strange Horizons -- online speculative fiction
Stranger Tides - a website about Tim Powers
Elizabeth Bear
Angela Boord
Tobias S. Buckell
Cecilia Dart-Thornton
Jed Hartman
Michael J. Jasper
John Klima
Stephen Leigh
Meredith L. Patterson
Nancy Proctor
Scott Sigler
James Stevens-Arce
Trey Thoelcke, aka John Trey
Amber van Dyk
Patrick Nielsen Hayden
James Patrick Kelly
Maureen F. McHugh
Nick Stathopoulos
Charles Stross
Paul Witcover