A couple of years ago Jeff Vandermeer ran a series of blog posts called Conversations With the Bookless. The Conversations with the Bookless series was designed to showcase those writers who are up and coming, who don’t yet have a collection or a novel out, who maybe are making their names known writing short stories. With Jeff’s blessing I continued the series last year at BSC Review. This year we will be continuing the series here at Spinetingler. These will begin sometime in the next couple of weeks. Authors have been contacted, questions have been sent out and responses are being gathered.
Part of last years introduction bears repeating:
From the first generation successes of Anthony Neil Smith, Victor Gischler and Sean Doolittle that came out of Plots With Guns to the later success of zine author/founders Sandra Ruttan and Russel McLean to a lot of others the online zines have, over the years, proved to be a fairly successful and fertile ground for emerging talents to launch a career, highlight their own work and showcase the work of others.
These writers are the next generation and it will be interesting in the next couple of years to see which of them will make it and which will stand out.
Nothing else to say really except to end with a quote from the original series.
“The fact is, if you don’t have a book out, it’s harder to get attention and it’s harder for reader attention to crystallize around you. I hope these interviews introduce readers to some of the great talent that, in the coming years, will be amazingly and bountifully bookful.” — Jeff Vandermeer
Stay tuned real soon to find out who you will be reading tomorrow.
