Lisa Shapter, Author

Fantasy and Science Fiction


I am a happy 3 year veteran of the
International 3-Day Novel Contest.
(I'm currently preparing the
69,112 word novel based on those three novellas for publication.)

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Bio:

I am an alumna of the
Breadloaf Young Writers Conference.  I have been writing all my life.  I have worked as an editor’s assistant for a major press, at several libraries, and I have completed my apprenticeship to a New England antiquarian book dealer

I am currently working on sociological SF trilogy (see excerpt) and a series of speculative fiction novels set in an alternate New England.

I also completed this year's
National Novel Editing Month (the far-less popular sibling of NaNoWriMo):



Prior work:  "Gilvaethwy" in  issue 20 of Aoife's Kiss. (Based a tale from the Mabinogion.) 

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Excerpt:

The long series of interviews, medical exams, and personality tests. A lengthy application process and here Nightskyman First Lieutenant Olaf Sandström was on a colony world, an earthlike planet deemed safe, such a safe world that they had no grunts for backup, no supplemental team, only the four of them building what would be home, one day, to millions of colonists on six habitable continents .... Olaf felt very proud to be one of four men trusted with establishing the basis of this world’s first colony – trusted with facing any hazard, navigating any crisis, directing heavy equipment to plant, tend, and harvest the first crops, synthesize fuel and oil, and to build the first buildings, while they were also expected to study the world in each of their disciplines .... Olaf was the planet’s sole Atmospheric Specialist – and he had another role that was even more select – he would be the mother to all the first children of this world.

To read the rest read Things We Are Not, the new M-Brane SF queer science fiction anthology.  (Available at River Run Bookstore in Portsmouth, NH and at The Green Hand Bookshop in Portland, ME as well as on Amazon.com)

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