Hello, and welcome!

Paul Abbamondi is a speculative fiction writer surviving humbly in New Jersey. He is also a short fiction reviewer for Tangent Online, an associate book reviewer for FantasyBookSpot, and an editor for the zine Sword's Edge. He can also be found amongst the many at Critters.

Here you will find out more about Paul and his writings, along with some of his personal book recommendations and much, much more. If interested, feel free to read about his pursuit to publication and stardom over at his blog, Wistful Writings.

Thanks for stopping by!      

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Biography

For many years now Paul has written down bits of story ideas and character sketches in dozens of notebooks, but they never did much more than collect dust in his desk drawers. After reviewing some of these ideas, he decided it was best they collect dust and started anew.

He began to seriously write in May 2005 after graduating college with a major in journalism, and has high hopes for the future. During the day he works as an assistant editor for a market and research firm, but by night he types away with fervor, deleting adverbs left and right.

Some of the books that have had a major impact on his life and writing are George Orwell's 1984, China Miéville's Perdido Street Station, J.R.R. Tolkien's The Lord of the Rings, Terry Pratchett's Small Gods, and Ursula K. Le Guin's entire life's work.

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Bibliography

  

Fiction

• "The Dealer's Hands" - Shimmer (Volume 1, Issue 3, Spring 2006)
• "Always Greener" - Shimmer (Volume 1, Issue 4, Summer 2006)
• "Sick Day" - Flashshot, Year 3 
• "Daily Happenings" - Flashshot, Year 3
• "Blood Hungry" - The Horror Library (April 2006)
• "With the Dead, Change is Inevitable" - Dead Letters 2.2
• "Chance on Catella" - AlienSkin Magazine (June/July 2006) 
• "Curling Tendrils of Love" - Second-place winner in the Red Light District/Apex contest for June/July, published in Apex Online and a print anthology debuting in 2007 at the World Horror Con in Toronto
• "To Make a Friend" - Dark Jesters, #1
• "Night Fairies" - AlienSkin Magazine (August/September 2006)
• "Never Order the Midnight Special" - Back Roads, #1
• "The Feet Eaters" - forthcoming in Aberrant Dreams, 2007
• "Sonorous" - forthcoming in Apex Digest
• "Love Under the Lake" - forthcoming in The Blue Lady, #2
• "67442" - forthcoming in Murky Depths, #1

Nonfiction

• "The Spear Carrier" by A.M. Dellamonica: An Appreciation by Paul Abbamondi - The ED SF Project
• SF by Starlight: "En Forêt Noire" by Tanith Lee - Tangent Online   
• Interview by Danny Semmel (02/01/06) - Epic SFF
• Short fiction reviews of magazines such as The Sword Review, Amazing Journeys, Shimmer, Shadowed Realms, AEON, and more can be read at Tangent Online along with several anthology/collection reviews
• Numerous book reviews can be found at FantasyBookSpot

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Links

Check out some of these great writers!

• Eugie Foster - http://www.eugiefoster.com/
• E. Sedia - http://www.ekaterinasedia.com/
• Jay Lake - http://www.jlake.com/
• Aliette de Bodard - http://perso.wanadoo.fr/aliettedb/
• Charles Coleman Finlay - http://home.earthlink.net/~ccfinlay/
• Tobias S. Buckell - http://www.tobiasbuckell.com/wordpress/
• Greg van Eekhout - http://www.sff.net/people/greg/
• Lawrence M. Schoen - http://www.klingonguy.com/
• Tony Pi - http://www.eyrie.org/~pi/

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