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Excerpt
The battlecruiser began to slowly pick up speed; the ghosts of coal, itself a hardened ghost of the long-forgotten dinosaur, the long-dead fern, burned in her boilers, causing the now twice-translucent ghost of water to become the intangible ghost of steam. No ripples marked the ship's passage, as she moved out in pursuit of her niece.
Bio
Steven Schwartz is a writer of SF/F, erotica, poetry, and performance pieces, who also does letterpress work (being your own publisher and printer is fun, kids!) He lives in Oakland with adults, cats, kids, and friends, and is hoping to age as gracefully as Samuel R. Delany. He is a Clarion '91 alum, and finds himself on the West Coast surrounded by Clarion West alumni, and has even helped raise money for them before.
Publications
I've appeared in The Mammoth Book Of Future Cops, Wired Hard 2, and numerous online publications.
Writing Description
My fiction draws heavily from history, whether that be Sengoku-era Japan, 1970s Germany, or the First World War. I want to write SF with the sense of wonder and strangeness of fantasy, and fantasy with the kind of rigor I'm used to getting in science fiction.
My published work has been entirely short fiction and poetry, to date.
Goals
My plan is to finish two stories: "Souvenir of St. Seraphine's Fence," which is a long-overdue Artist's Challenge piece for Elise Mathesen, and "Ghosts of Armor-Plated Bones." I believe the two of them will run to over 9,000 words, but if they don't, I'll put the rest towards a new project, "Assassin in an Envelope."
As a Clarion alumnus, I'd like to split my donation between Clarion and Clarion West, and I'll be emailing sponsors stories, leaving it up to them what they're willing to donate, and how many stories it's worth, above a certain point -- call it $5 per story, or $10 for both, as I have smart-aleck friends who might try to donate $1 for one, and $8 for the second. ;)
Website
chetwoodpress.etsy.com, where I sell letterpress poetry broadsides.
