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Talking with Jessica Reisman

4/21/2022

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WS: What genre do you write in and why?
JR: Broadly, speculative--science fiction, fantasy, horror, fabulism...it's always been the fantastic for me, since I was a kid, fiction and poetry and art that opens doors and pushes our sense of the possible beyond its bounds.

WS: What is your favorite book or writing craft book? Why?
JR: I'm very bad at picking one of anything.

WS: What fears do you have about your writing?
JR: That it sinks without much ripple, away into the deep tarn, and doesn't reach many people at all, that it is ignored and underappreciated.

WS: If you could have dinner with any famous author (dead or alive) who would it be?
JR: I would have liked to have had dinner with Tanith Lee.

WS: What are your tips for submitting writing? 
JR: Read the guidelines, don't take rejections personally, keep at it.

WS: What's the best (or worst) writing advice you've ever received?
JR: "You're going to have to get in the hot tub with the luddites." Michael Swanwick at Clarion West.

WS: What inspires your writing?
JR: Beauty, dreams, wonder, nature, hope, pain, love, longing, other stories in books, movies, art. Language itself, and visions of worlds beyond ours, within ours, within us.

WS: Where are you from and does that place ever enter into your writing?
JR: Philadelphia, Florida, California, the road, Texas, cities and rural places...I moved around a lot as a child and young adult, so in a sense, no place and many places enter into my writing.

WS: Do you do research for your writing? If so, what are some unexpected resources you’ve found?
JR: Yes, lots of it. I like image resources, museum and other digital archives, as well as scholarly articles, science papers, and collections of letters and journals.

WS: Drop any links or promos for your recent work, include your social media links.
JR:
  • I have a story coming out in the May/June issue of Analog called "Aconie's Bees." https://www.analogsf.com/ 
  • My story "For Successful Haunting" features in this issue of The Dark, https://www.thedarkmagazine.com/for-successful-haunting/
  • You can get my first collection, The Arcana of Maps,here: https://fairwoodpress.com/store/p121/THE_ARCANA_OF_MAPS_AND_OTHER_STORIES.html
  • Find me @jesswynne on Twitter
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        • Mike Kowis, Esq.
        • Kendra Preston Leonard
        • Phuc Luu
        • Lorenzo Martinez
        • Thomas H McNeely
        • Sean Morrisey Carroll
        • Ülrika Moats
        • Jody T. Morse
        • Deborah D.E.E.P. Mouton
        • Patricia Flaherty Pagan
        • Kate Pentecost
        • Kathryn Peterson
        • Joy Preble
        • Paige Quiñones
        • Icess Fernandez Rojas
        • Tamara Nicholl-Smith
        • Patrick Stockwell
        • Marian Szczepanski
        • Victoria Strange
        • ire'ne lara silva
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        • Catherine Vance
        • Holly Walrath
        • Charlotte Wyatt
        • D.L. Young
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        • Theodora Ziolkowski
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