Chris Howard
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| Industry | Arts |
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| Location | North Hampton, New Hampshire, United States |
| Introduction | My novel SEABORN will be out in July 2008 from Juno Books. My short story "Hammers and Snails" won the Heinlein Centennial Writing Contest (Amateur Division) -July 2007. I signed with Sternig & Byrne Literary Agency in May 2007. Other than that, I love to create, primarily with words. As an army brat, I grew up all over: Fort Belvoir, Virginia, Indiana, Presidio of San Francisco, France, Germany, and Japan. My short stories have appeared in The Harrow, Another Realm, Ultraverse, Quantum Muse and others. I'm a writer who also paints, working in pen and ink, watercolor and digital formats. I've settled in coastal New Hampshire with my wife and two wonderful kids, and I've blogged steadily since 2004, mostly on writing, art, Aristotle and technology. Find out more at, http://theophrast.us |
| Interests | Writing novels and short stories, primarily fantasy and science fiction. Drawing and painting in watercolor and digital. I usually paint scenes from the stories I write, but every once in a while the mood for something else will take me. Did I mention mermaids? Mermaids. |
| Favorite music | All kinds, from '70s prog rock to classical. Regina Spektor, Gentle Giant, Apples in Stereo, The Commodores, The Cranberries, David Bowie, Dressy Bessy, Tilly and the Wall, Frank Zappa, Dandy Warhols, My Bloody Valentine, Garbage, Lacuna Coil, Itzhak Perlman, KT Tunstall, Moby, Nine Inch Nails, Radiohead, Red Hot Chili Peppers, Soundgarden, They Might Be Giants, Tori Amos, The Birthday Massacre, Ween, Weezer. |
| Favorite books | Any fantasy or science fiction. In no particular order: Charles Stross, Caitlín R. Kiernan, China Mieville, Lois McMaster Bujold, Terry Pratchett, Susanna Clarke, Nick Sagan, Stephenie Meyer, Tad Williams, Paul Kearney, Garth Nix, Tobias Buckell, John Scalzi, J.K. Rowling, Robin Hobb, Tanith Lee, Neil Gaiman, Neal Stephenson, Scott Westerfeld, Umberto Eco, J.R.R. Tolkein, Poul Anderson, Steven Brust, Jodi Picoult, Patrick O'Brian, Jonathan Stroud, Robert E. Howard, Anne McCaffrey, Euripides, Sophocles, Aeschylus, Larry Niven, Daniel Keys Moran, Mary Renault, Cornelia Funke, Justine Larbalestier, Adele Griffin, Hal Duncan, Maureen Johnson, Gail Z Martin, Holly Black, Jasper Fforde, Raven Dane, Stephenie Meyer, Cara Lockwood, Diane Duane, Scott Westerfeld, Erica Orloff, Ally Carter, Elizabeth Bear, Aristotle, Isaac Asimov, Dan Simmons, Philip Pullman, Guy Gavriel Kay, Elizabeth Kostova, Steven Pressfield, Holly Lisle, Victor Hugo, Richard K. Morgan, and many others. |