The Fantasy Writer’s Assistant (40 page)

Any writer lucky enough to have the opportunity to do a book with Golden Gryphon can expect a first-rate, professional and enjoyable experience. Gary Turner and Marty Halpern are committed to turning out wonderful books. Special thanks to Marty. What can I say, the man is a perfectionist in the best sense of the word. If Marty were Moses, God would be seeing some red ink. I am indebted to his vigilance, dedication, and sense of humor.

Last but by no means least, I want to thank my agent, Howard Morhaim—trusted guide, committed reader, honest critic, magician.

About the Author

Jeffrey Ford is the author of the novels
Vanitas, The Physiognomy, Memoranda, The Beyond, The Portrait of Mrs. Charbuque, The Girl in the Glass, The Cosmology of the Wider World, and The Shadow Year
. His story collections are
The Fantasy Writer's Assistant, The Empire of Ice Cream, The Drowned Life, and Crackpot Palace
. Ford has published over one hundred short stories, which have appeared in numerous journals, magazines, and anthologies, from the
Magazine of Fantasy & Science Fiction to The Oxford Book of American Short Stories
. He is the recipient of the World Fantasy Award, the Nebula Award, the Shirley Jackson Award, the Edgar Award, France's Grand Prix de l'Imaginaire, and Japan's Hayakawa's SF Magazine Reader's Award.

Ford's fiction has been translated into twenty languages. In addition to writing, he has been a professor of literature and writing for thirty years and has been a guest lecturer at the Clarion Writers' Workshop, the Stone Coast MFA in Creative Writing Program, Richard Hugo House in Seattle, and the Antioch Writers' Workshop. Ford lives in Ohio and currently teaches at Ohio Wesleyan University.

All rights reserved, including without limitation the right to reproduce this ebook or any portion thereof in any form or by any means, whether electronic or mechanical, now known or hereinafter invented, without the express written permission of the publisher.

These are works of fiction. Names, characters, places, events, and incidents either are the product of the author's imagination or are used fictitiously. Any resemblance to actual persons, living or dead, businesses, companies, events, or locales is entirely coincidental.

“At Reparata,” first published on-line on
Event Horizon
, February 15, 1999.

“Bright Morning,” copyright © 2002 by Jeffrey Ford. Unpublished.

“Creation,” first published in
The Magazine of Fantasy and Science Fiction
, May 2002.

“The Delicate,” copyright © 2002 by Jeffrey Ford, revised from its original publication in
Space and Time
, no. 83, 1994.

“Exo-Skeleton Town,” first published in
Black Gate: Adventures in Fantasy Literature
, 1, no. 1, Spring 2001.

“The Fantasy Writer's Assistant,” first published in
The Magazine of Fantasy and Science Fiction
, February 2000.

“The Far Oasis,” first published on-line on
SCI FICTION
, October 25, 2000.

“Floating in Lindrethool,” first published on-line on
SCI FICTION
, June 13, 2001.

“High Tea with Jules Verne,” first published in
Lady Churchill's Rosebud Wristlet
, no. 7, March 2001.

“The Honeyed Knot,” first published in
The Magazine of Fantasy and Science Fiction
, May 2001.

“Malthusian's Zombie,” first published on-line on
SCI FICTION
, May 31, 2000.

“On the Road to New Egypt,” first published in
Aberrations
, no. 32, 1995.

“Out of the Canyon,” copyright © 2001 by Jeffrey Ford. Unpublished.

“Pansolapia,” first published on-line on
Event Horizon
, July 26, 1999.

“Something by the Sea,” copyright © 2002 by Jeffrey Ford. Unpublished.

“The Woman Who Counts Her Breath,” first published in
Northwest Review
, 32, no. 3, 1994.

Copyright © 2002 by Jeffrey Ford

Introduction copyright © 2002 by Michael Swanwick

Cover design by Jamie Keenan

ISBN: 978-1-4804-1105-0

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