| Chat with Elaine Isaak |
Elaine Isaak was born in California in the same year that Tolkein died (which she didn't find out until much later). She has lived in Illinois, Massachusetts, and now New Hampshire, with some wonderful summers in Colorado, and a few visits to Seattle, Washington thrown in the mix.
After feeling like a misfit through middle school, and finding a group of peers as geeky as herself in high school, she went off to Rhode Island School of Design with some vague notion of working for Jim Henson or Hollywood, making creatures.  Finding the program there to be too limiting for her needs, she withdrew and went home to seek her fortune (read: to
crash at her folks' house until she figured out what to do with herself). She wound up sewing animal mascot costumes for a rental shop, and free-lance sewing quilt squares and dance outfits. From that, she developed her own business, Curious Characters, creating original design stuffed animals and small-scale metal sculptures.
She finished her first book and promptly had it rejected by Del Rey. She started her second book, which remains unfinished to this day. She was primarily a poet, and self-published a couple of chapbooks, DOUBLES OR METAPHORS and THE INTIMATE TOES OF ROME. Won a couple of poetry slams, met her husband at a poetry reading and founded a local poetry group, Poets Unbound, which is still thriving to this day.
She sold her first short story for the same amount of money  as her first paid poem ($10, a much better rate for poetry than for fiction). She attended the Odyssey Speculative Fiction Workshop, which she highly recommends. She took about four years to write her third book, in fits and starts. She has just finished her tenth novel.
She had her daughter in 2001 and feared she would never have time to write again. In response, she wrote faster. At this point, her productivity, like the rate of technological change, appears to be unbounded.
WHEN?
Sunday, February 28, 2010
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| Door Prize |
| Elaine has donated a copy of The Singer's Crown. This will be awarded to a lucky chatter during the chat. Remember, you MUST be present to be eligible!
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