Conversations with the Bookless: Paul O. Miles

A part of my guest blogging duties for Jeff Vandermeer's Ecstatic Days blog was to produce three new interviews for his Conversations with the Bookless series. The subjects are all published short stories writers who do not have a book. My first two, Scott A. Cupp and Chris Nakashima-Brown, are well know to our little clique, but not near as well as our own regular contributor Paul O. Miles. As expected, Paul is witty with an interesting tale or two to share. (Any of our book group regulars should not be shocked by this.)

WSFA Small Press Award finalists

I got an email today from Sam Scheiner, the Washington Science Fiction Association Small Press Award Administrator, informing me that Paul Miles and I were finalists in the Short Form category for our story "A Penny A Word," which originally appeared last year in the World Fantasy Award nominated Cross Plains Universe. We didn't win. But it's always nice to be recognized for your work.

"Green Brother"

For those of you who own (or in Paul Miles' case are in) Weird Business, be sure to check out the John Lucas-illustrated adaptation of "Green Brother" from Howard Who?

A little side note about Messrs. Miles and Lucas, in the 90s they produced (Miles wrote, Lucas drew) a serialized strip for the XLent, the weekly produced by The Austin-American Statesman. For the life of me, I can't remember the strip's name but it ran 8-10 weeks. I seem to recall it being a full page strip. I'm sure Paul could fill in the info gaps.

Rick